Erzgebirge

Far into the distance stretches the range of mountains called the Erzgebirge, which bound Bohemia on the north.

A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia 1867

The district is known as the Erzgebirge or Ore Mountains, and the Riesengebirge or Giant Mountains, MacCulloch says that upwards of 500 mines are wrought in the former district, and that one-thirtieth of the entire population of Saxony to this day derive their subsistence from mining industry and the manufacture of metallic products.

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

[14] The district is known as the Erzgebirge or Ore Mountains, and the

Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

The search for native cobalt, especially outside of Saxony or the Erzgebirge, was tied to the development of zaffer and smalt industries — refined versions of cobalt used by painters and in vitreous colormaking — and to recognition of the quality of the cobalt-based colors.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The Russians have bypassed Dresden, and are trying to cross the Erzgebirge from the north so as to reach the protectorate and thus outflank Field Marshal Schoerner's army.

Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

Erzgebirge; the centre of the Saxon mining administration.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

In the Erzgebirge there is dancing at the summer solstice round

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Erzgebirge, to the south-east Saxon Switzerland, and, in a dip of the nearer hills, Dresden.

The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

They have a cold, desolate look; and we think of the gardens we have left at their bases, and of the forests of fir-trees which wave upon some of the loftier pinnacles of these same Erzgebirge.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

In the Erzgebirge the following custom was annually observed at Shrovetide about the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit. § 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers 1922