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Oybin
Oybin
Municipality
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Oybin within Görlitz district
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	Coordinates: 50°50′32″N 14°44′34″E / 50.84222°N 14.74278°E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Görlitz
Municipal assoc.	Olbersdorf
Subdivisions	4 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2018–25)	Tobias Steiner
Area
• Total	18.29 km2 (7.06 sq mi)
Elevation	389 m (1,276 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	1,300
• Density	71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	02797
Dialling codes	035844
Vehicle registration	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Website	www.oybin.com

Oybin (Upper Sorbian: Ojbin, pronounced [ˈɔjbʲin]) is a municipality in the Görlitz district, in Saxony, Germany, located very close to the border of the Czech Republic. Following the defeat of the Protestant armies by the Habsburgs in the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620, many Protestant Czechs found refuge across the border in the hills of Upper Lusatia. It is a "Kurort", a resort or spa certified by the state, where people go for rest and recuperation. It is most famous for its mountain of the same name, an exposed natural sandstone dome that towers above the town. The ruins of a medieval monastery lend a wild romantic beauty to it and it was a favorite subject of 19th-century Romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich. Many bizarrely shaped geological rock formations can be found in the surroundings. The scenic narrow gauge Zittau–Kurort Oybin/Kurort Jonsdorf railway runs from Oybin to Bertsdorf, from there to the neighboring municipality of Jonsdorf and the town of Zittau. Oybin municipality has 3 districts: Oybin, Hain and Lückendorf.

Church in Oybin
Timber-frame house
The half-timbered "Almanka" Inn

Culture and sights

a baroque mountain church built in 1734
Periodic historical monk processions lit by torchlight
Oybin railway station with small museum about the history of the Zittau Narrow Gauge Railway
Teufelsmühle ("Devil's Mill")

Castle ruins on mount Oybin
Camera obscura
Narrow-gauge steam train
Mount Oybin with restaurant and castle ruins

Surroundings and landmarks

Rosensteine (Rose Stones) with Kelchstein (Chalice Rock), a red mushroom rock
The Große Felsengasse (Large Canyon Alley) with Muschelsaal (Shell Hall) and the via ferrata "Alpiner Grat"
Mount Scharfenstein (Sharp Stone)
Mount Hochwald (Highwood) with look-out tower and 2 mountain huts
Mount Töpfer (Potter) with mountain hut
Ameisenberg (Anthill rock)
Mount Oybin

Mount Oybin
The "Chalice rock" (Kelchstein)
The "Mitten Rock" (Handschuh-Felsen)
The "Broody Hen" (Brütende Henne) on Mount Töpfer

Notable people

Chval of Lipá (born and died in the 13th century), Czech nobleman from the Ronovci family and the founder of the family of the Lords of Lipá [cs].^[3]
Čeněk of Oybin (fl. 1290–1346), Czech nobleman, landowner, and founder of the Pirkštejn family [cs].^[4]

References

^ Bürgermeisterwahlen 2018, Freistaat Sachsen, retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ "Einwohnerzahlen nach Gemeinden als Excel-Arbeitsmappe" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2024.
^ Založení České Lípy. Vol. 11. p. 5. ISSN 1211-9172.
^ Sovadina, Miloslav (2001). "Jindřich z Lipé. I. První muž království. Část 1". Časopis Matice moravské (120).

External links

[1] Bürgermeisterwahlen 2018, Freistaat Sachsen, retrieved 10 July 2021.

[2] "Einwohnerzahlen nach Gemeinden als Excel-Arbeitsmappe" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2024.

[3] Založení České Lípy. Vol. 11. p. 5. ISSN 1211-9172.

[4] Sovadina, Miloslav (2001). "Jindřich z Lipé. I. První muž království. Část 1". Časopis Matice moravské (120).

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