ABSTRACT
The countryside, starting from the fertile Saxon Lowland in the north, marked by the towns of Wittenberg and Leipzig, gradually climbs through the Saxon Hills around Karl-Marx-Stadt and Dresden, towards the south, where the central uplands of Vogtland, Saxon Ore Mountains ( Erzgebirge) and Upper Lusatian Plateau form the border with Czechoslovakia. Due to the landscape the rivers run through Saxony in a south-north direction: in the west the WeiBe Elster and the Mulde, in the centre the Elbe and Schwarze Elster and in the east the Spree and the NeiBe, the latter forming the border with Poland.
