Dohna is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge

Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge

Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge is a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is named after the mountain ranges Saxon Switzerland and Erzgebirge.- History :...

 district, Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It is located south of Heidenau

Heidenau

Heidenau is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. During World War II, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp was located here. The town is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, 13 km southeast of Dresden .-References:...

. It is located in the Müglitz valley and lies west of the Eastern Ore Mountains

Eastern Ore Mountains

The Eastern Ore Mountains form a natural region that covers the eastern part of the Saxon Ore Mountains. It is part of the major landscape unit, the Saxon Highlands and Uplands...

. It was known as Donin in 1107, 1160 and until 1206. Donyn in from 1288 to 1408. Doneyn unwil 1454 and other forms were Dhonin, Donow and became Dohna. The name comes from Property of the Doň(s) from the Bohemian first name Zdoň.

It is accessed by routes 172 and 172A, and by the A17

Bundesautobahn 17

is an autobahn in Saxony, south-eastern Germany. It links Dresden to the Czech border where the D8 continues to Prague. The road is a fairly new contribution to the German autobahn-system, with its first stretch opened in 2001 and the last in 2006.- Location :...

 at the Pirna

Pirna

Pirna is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, capital of the administrative district Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge. The town's population is over 40,000. Pirna is located near Dresden and is an important district town as well as a Große Kreisstadt...

 interchange.

History

Dohna is one of the oldest towns in Saxony. It dates back to the 16th century BC and the Bronze Age

Bronze Age

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. It was first mentioned in 960 in a document by emperor Otto I

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

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It was linked by the Bohemian Road and the Old Dresden to Teplitz Post Road. The burgraviate was situated between the Margraviate of Meissen, the Kingdom of Bohemia

Kingdom of Bohemia

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 and Gottleuba

Gottleuba

The Gottleuba is a small river in the Czech Republic and Germany, left tributary of the Elbe. It source is in the eastern part of the Ore Mountains, north of Ústí nad Labem. After a few km it crosses the Czech-German border, and flows the rest of its 34 km in Saxony. It passes the Gottleuba Dam and...

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The Donins were defeated in 1402 in the Dohna Feud

Dohna Feud

The Dohna Feud was a 14th-century dispute between the burgraves of Dohna, who resided in the Eastern Ore Mountains of Central Europe, on the one hand and Saxon nobleman, John of Körbitz and the Meißen Margrave William I on the other...

. The castle was the seat until 1460 as it moved to Sonnenstein Castle

Sonnenstein castle

The Sonnenstein castle is a castle in Pirna, near Dresden, Germany. It housed a mental hospital, which operated from 1811 to the end of World War II in 1945. During the War, it functioned as an extermination centre for the Third Reich Action T4 program...

 in Pirna

Pirna

Pirna is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, capital of the administrative district Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge. The town's population is over 40,000. Pirna is located near Dresden and is an important district town as well as a Große Kreisstadt...

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Its constitution was established in 1845. The city was devastated by French

France

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 and Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n troops during the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

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In 1999, Köttewitz and Krebs joined Dohna. In January 1, 2002

January 2002

January 2002: ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December- January 1, 2002:...

, Dohna became the seat of Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Dohna.

Municipality subdivisions

• Borthen
• Bosewitz
• Burgstädtel
• Dohna
• Gamig
• Gorknitz
• Köttewitz
• Krebs
• Meusegast
• Röhrsdorf
• Sürßen
• Tronitz

Main sights

• Castle tower, constructed in the 19th century
• Postmeilensäule, built in 1731
• Alten Apotheke, built in 1690, a local historical museum since 1992.

Schools:

• Primary school
• Middle School, built on September 7, 1891
• Gymnasium, built in 1892
• In 1969, the schools were named Marie Curie