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Oybin
Sign in to saveOybin (, ) is a municipality in the Görlitz district, in Saxony, in eastern Germany, located very close to the border of the Czech Republic. It is a "Kurort", a resort or spa certified by the state, where people go for rest and recuperation.
Key facts
- German location.name
- Oybin
- German location.image_photo
- Rathaus Oybin.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Town hall
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen Oybin (Sachsen).svg
- German location.image_plan
- Oybin in GR.svg
- German location.state
- Sachsen
- German location.district
- Görlitz
- German location.Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
- Olbersdorf
- German location.elevation
- 389
- German location.area
- 18.29
- German location.postal_code
- 02797
- German location.area_code
- 035844
- German location.licence
- GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14 6 26 430
- German location.divisions
- 4 Ortsteile
- German location.website
- www.oybin.com
- German location.mayor
- Tobias Steiner
- German location.leader_term
- 2018–25
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Oybin (, ) is a municipality in the Görlitz district, in Saxony, in eastern Germany, located very close to the border of the Czech Republic. It is a "Kurort", a resort or spa certified by the state, where people go for rest and recuperation.
It is most famous for its mountain of the same name, an exposed natural sandstone dome that towers above the town. The ruins of a medieval monastery lend a wild romantic beauty to it and it was a favorite subject of 19th-century Romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich. Many bizarrely shaped geological rock formations can be found in the surroundings. The scenic narrow gauge Zittau–Kurort Oybin/Kurort Jonsdorf railway runs from Oybin to Bertsdorf, from there to the neighboring municipality of Jonsdorf and the town of Zittau. Oybin municipality has 3 districts: Oybin, Hain and Lückendorf.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oybin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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