Tharandt

Tharandt is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, 9 miles southwest of Dresden.

Tharandt
Coat of arms
Location of Tharandt within Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district
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Tharandt
Tharandt
Coordinates: 50°59′0″N 13°34′51″E
CountryGermany
StateSaxony
DistrictSächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
Municipal assoc.Tharandt
Subdivisions7
Government
 • MayorSilvio Ziesemer
Area
 • Total71.22 km2 (27.50 sq mi)
Elevation
214 m (702 ft)
Population
 (2018-12-31)[1]
 • Total5,423
 • Density76/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zoneCET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes
01737
Dialling codes035203
Vehicle registrationPIR
Websitewww.tharandt.de

It has a Protestant Church, a hydropathic establishment, 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.

Tharandt is a favorite summer resort of the people of Dresden, one of its principal charms being the magnificent beech woods which surround it.

Personalities connected to the town
Heinrich Cotta (1833)
  • Sidonie of Poděbrady (died 1510 in Tharandt), Duchess of Saxony, wife of the Duke Albrecht the Boldheart
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), poet, theater director, naturalist, art theorist and statesman; he visited Heinrich Cotta several times from 1811
  • Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was in the town in 1787
  • Heinrich Cotta (1763-1844), forestry scholar, lived in Tharandt since 1811, where he was director of the Royal Saxon Forestry Academy.
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References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tharandt". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 726.

  1. "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen jeweils am Monatsende ausgewählter Berichtsmonate nach Gemeinden" (PDF). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). July 2019.
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