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

• “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

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

  Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers

• “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

• “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

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

  The Eurhythmics of 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

• “Erzgebirge; the centre of the Saxon mining administration.”

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

• “In the Erzgebirge there is dancing at the summer solstice round”

  Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

• “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

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