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The Erzgebirge in Ore Mountains

15 February 2014 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General Reading Time: 9 minutes

Weather Station on Fichtelberg © Wikijunkie/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Ore Mountains in Central Europe have formed a natural border between Saxony and Bohemia for many centuries. Today, the border between Germany and the Czech Republic runs just north of the main crest of the mountain range. The highest peaks are the Klínovec and the Fichtelberg. The area played an important role as the setting of the earliest stages of the early modern transformation of mining and metallurgy from a craft to a large-scale industry, a process that preceded and enabled the later Industrial Revolution. read more…