Tharandt
Sign in to saveTharandt () is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, southwest of Dresden.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_photo
- Tharandt Übersicht.JPG
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen tharandt.png
- German location.image_plan
- Tharandt in PIR.svg
- German location.state
- Sachsen
- German location.district
- Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
- German location.Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
- Tharandt
- German location.elevation
- 214
- German location.area
- 71.22
- German location.postal_code
- 01737
- German location.area_code
- 035203
- German location.licence
- PIR
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14628400
- German location.divisions
- 7
- German location.website
- www.tharandt.de
- German location.mayor
- Silvio Ziesemer
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–27
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Tharandt () is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, southwest of Dresden.
It has a Protestant Church and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany, founded as the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry by Heinrich Cotta in 1811, together with its arboretum, the Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt. In 2002, a severe flood destroyed many of the academy buildings and the library, including some of its more-than-500-year old books. The academy was rebuilt and today has about 650 students and is famous for its long traditions of educating students from all over the world in (tropical) forestry, resource management and sustainable land use.