The best city hikes and walks around Dam Dröda

Oelsnitz, also has the best bike shop :)

On display in the church square is one of the four bells that was removed in 2021 during the renovation of the bell tower of St. Jakobi Church. It has been restored and refurbished, and the inscription is now clearly legible again.

These last remaining stone crosses in Oelsnitz are probably about 400 years old and are medieval atonement monuments. They were restored in 1982 and are protected archaeological sites. One of these crosses originally stood near the Zoephel House, and the other near the market at the corner of Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße and Dr. Friedrichs-Straße.

Protestant Gothic hall church. The first small wooden church stood on this site as early as the 12th century. A stone building followed in 1240. Around 1519, after a fire, the church was rebuilt in the late Gothic style. Extensive restorations and renovations began in 1991.

The fountain is located on the market square in front of the town hall. The beautiful figures in the center of the fountain and the cute sparrows on the fountain's rim tell a local legend with plaques: +++ "One day, a strange fellow settled in Oelsnitz. He was tall, gaunt, and had a dull complexion. He also knew all kinds of remedies and had clairvoyant abilities. After that, things became increasingly strange in Oelsnitz. Finally, the citizens suspected the stranger of being a sorcerer. The council had him arrested. At the trial, he was proven to have practiced sorcery, and he was certain to be burned to death. News of the man's arrest and conviction reached as far as Bavaria, Bohemia, and, of course, the neighboring town of Plauen. He had already caused mischief everywhere, and so the crowd on the day of the execution was large. The executioners quickly brought the stranger to the pyre and tied him to the stake. But lighting the fire presented problems. Wherever the fire was lit, it also went out again. Now the Condemned to the gallows. Amid shouts and curses from the onlookers, he climbed the ladder. At the top, he turned around and looked gloomily at the onlookers. They, completely silent with fear, didn't dare move. "So quiet all of a sudden, you sparrows?" he asked, flung his hat into the crowd, and all the Oelsnitz citizens were transformed into sparrows. He let out a shrill shout toward the Plauen residents who had arrived. The people disappeared, and in their place, a gusty wind blew, roaring with full force into the sparrows. Soon, the first of them lay dead on the ground. The city officials begged the stranger to lift the spell; they would spare him his life in return. But he just laughed and vanished into thin air. For a while, total chaos reigned on Oelsnitz's gallows hill. The Plauen wind swept between headless, hand-wringing judges and screeching Oelsnitz sparrows. Then a A raven croaked on the top rung of the ladder. When peace had returned, it croaked: "Sparrows and wind, so it was and so it is until the children's children." The haunting was lifted, and the raven flew away.

The building seen here was constructed between 1861 and 1864. The building was completely renovated and restored in 1990. The bell tower can be seen from afar as you enter the city. The building adorns the very spacious market square and is complemented by a fabulous fountain in front of it.

Memorial to the victims of the Franco-Prussian War. A simple obelisk with a fence.

Great view from up here.