The Ore Mountain Foreland is a strip of countryside of about 200 m to high, in the German state of 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....

, that lies immediately north of the German Ore Mountains and runs mainly through the areas of Zwickauer Land, Zwickau

Zwickau

Zwickau in Germany, former seat of the government of the south-western region of the Free State of Saxony, belongs to an industrial and economical core region. Nowadays it is the capital city of the district of Zwickau...

, Chemnitzer Land, Chemnitz

Chemnitz

Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...

, Mittelsachsen and the country south of Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

. It borders on the Upper Pleißeland to the extreme west, the Ore Mountain Basin

Ore Mountain Basin

The Ore Mountain Basin or Erzgebirge Basin is a a natural region in the German federal state of Saxony, that is part of the Saxon Lowland...

 in the south and the Mulde Loess Hills to the north and east.

Immediately north of the Western

Western Ore Mountains

The Western Ore Mountains is a natural region that forms the westernmost part of the Ore Mountains in the German federal state of Saxony. It is also part of the major landscape unit known as the Saxon Highlands and Uplands...

 and Central Ore Mountains

Central Ore Mountains

The Central or Middle Ore Mountains is a natural region that forms the central-western part of the Ore Mountains in the German federal state of Saxony. It is part of the overarching unit, the Saxon Highlands and Uplands...

 lie the cities of Zwickau

Zwickau

Zwickau in Germany, former seat of the government of the south-western region of the Free State of Saxony, belongs to an industrial and economical core region. Nowadays it is the capital city of the district of Zwickau...

 and Chemnitz

Chemnitz

Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...

 in the Ore Mountain Basin

Ore Mountain Basin

The Ore Mountain Basin or Erzgebirge Basin is a a natural region in the German federal state of Saxony, that is part of the Saxon Lowland...

, whose western extension, the Upper Pleißeland is usually considered part of the basin today. Northeast of Chemnitz a narrow strip of land, the Mulde Loess Hills (Mulde-Lösshügelland) is squeezed in between the Dresden Basin

Dresden Basin

The Dresden Basin is a roughly 45 km long and 10 km wide area of the Elbe Valley between the towns of Pirna and Meißen. The city of Dresden lies in the Dresden Basin.- Geography :...

 (Elbtalkessel) and the eastern section of the Ore Mountains.

Natural divisions

The Ore Mountains are often divided into the following areas (main units based on Meynen, and, in brackets, the Federal Office for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz or BfN):

• 45 (part of D19) Ore Mountain Foreland
  Ore Mountain Foreland
  The Ore Mountain Foreland is a strip of countryside of about 200 m to high, in the German state of Saxony, that lies immediately north of the German Ore Mountains and runs mainly through the areas of Zwickauer Land, Zwickau, Chemnitzer Land, Chemnitz, Mittelsachsen and the country south of Dresden...
  
  (Erzgebirgsvorland)
  • 450 Central Saxon Loess-Loam Hills (Mittelsächsisches Lößlehmhügelland) (Mulde Loess Loam Hills)
  • 451 Ore Mountain Basin
    Ore Mountain Basin
    The Ore Mountain Basin or Erzgebirge Basin is a a natural region in the German federal state of Saxony, that is part of the Saxon Lowland...
    
    (Erzgebirgisches Becken)
  • 452 Upper Pleißeland (Oberes Pleißeland)