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title: "🗺️ Lohmen – Gateway to the Bastei and Saxon Switzerland"
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**Lohmen**
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**Experience the Bastei area up close**

Bastei

Wesenitz Gorge

The municipality of Lohmen extends from the , the famous balcony of Saxon Switzerland, to the romantic rock world of the Liebethal and Uttewald Valleys and is characterized by its rural nature.

As an excursion destination in the middle of the Bastei area and as a popular travel destination, Lohmen can look back on over 700 years of history, which is closely rooted in the discovery of Saxon Switzerland in the 18th century.

Lohmen impresses with its central location, its proximity to all excursion destinations in Saxon Switzerland, and to the culture and residential city of Dresden. Special sights in the immediate vicinity include Lohmen Castle, the church as one of the largest village churches in Saxony, the Richard Wagner Monument, and the Felsenburg Neurathen. Lohmen is also located directly on the idyllic Malerweg and is the ideal starting point for the 1st stage of this hiking trail.

The following districts belong to Lohmen

Daube \| Doberzeit \| Lohmen \| Mühlsdorf \| Uttewalde

 

**Tourist information:**
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**Tourist Information Lohmen**
Schloss Lohmen 1
01847 Lohmen
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Impressions
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- Bastion
- Wesenitz Gorge
- Lohmen Castle
- Bastei

 

Guest Card Saxon Switzerland *mobil*

Mobile guest card logo

**As an overnight guest, one receives the guest card** ***mobil.*** Besides **great discounts** at a variety of leisure facilities, the guest card simultaneously serves as a **ticket for** the use **of public transport in all tariff zones of the Upper Elbe Transport Association (VVO) in Saxon Switzerland.** Thus, the guest card *mobil* is the ticket for all bus, train, and most ferry connections in Pirna (70), Bad Gottleuba (71), Bad Schandau (72), and Neustadt (73), as well as for **the Kirnitzschtal Railway** and **the cross-border Tisá Line 2017.**

The brochure ERLEBNISSE Sächsische Schweiz provides information on special offers for guest card holders: All participating establishments are marked with the guest card logo. The brochure is provided upon arrival along with the guest card or at the Tourist Information.

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**Excursion destinations**

 

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