Scharfenstein
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Scharfenstein may refer to::
Scharfenstein is the name of the following geographic features:
Scharfenstein is the name of the following castles:
- a district of DrebachDrebachDrebach is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany....
in Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony
Scharfenstein is the name of the following geographic features:
- Scharfenstein (Zittauer Gebirge)Scharfenstein (Zittauer Gebirge)The Scharfenstein is a rock and about 25 metres high, situated in the Lusatian Mountains. It sits on a mountain with an elevation of 569 metres in the German southeastern state of Saxony. Due to its distinctive shape it is also called the "Upper-Lusatian Matterhorn" by the locals...
, OybinOybinOybin is a municipality in the district Görlitz, 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...
in Saxony, known as Lausitzer Matterhorn - Scharfenstein, WernigerodeWernigerodeWernigerode is a town in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until 2007, it was the capital of the district of Wernigerode. Its population was 35,500 in 1999....
in Saxony-Anhalt - Scharfenstein (Hessen)Scharfenstein (Hessen)Scharfenstein is a mountain of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany....
, GudensbergGudensbergGudensberg is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany. Since municipal reform in 1974, the nearby villages of Deute, Dissen, Dorla, Gleichen, Maden and Obervorschütz have been parts of the municipality.-Geography:... - Scharfenstein, German name of Slovakia mountains, ZárubyZárubyZáruby is the highest hill of the Little Carpathians. It is located at an altitude of 768 m, near the village of Smolenice....
Scharfenstein is the name of the following castles:
- Burg Scharfenstein (Eichsfeld), Eichsfeld in Thüringen
- Burg Scharfenstein (Erzgebirge), Saxony
- Burg Scharfenstein (Kiedrich)Burg Scharfenstein (Kiedrich)The Burg Scharfenstein, a ruined castle near the town of Kiedrich in Hesse, Germany, was part of Archiepiscopal Mainz’s border fortifications. It had been erected 1160 under Christian I .-Sources and external links:* in German....
, in KiedrichKiedrichKiedrich is a community in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.- Location :The community lies in the Rheingau on the south slope of the Taunus, some 2 km north of the town of Eltville am Rhein and 3 km from the banks of the Rhine.- Neighbouring...
in Hesse - Burg Scharfenstein (Schwarzwald), Baden-Württemberg.
- deutscher Name einer Burg im Böhmischen Mittelgebirge in Tschechien, siehe Burg Šarfenštejn
- German name Burg Ostrý Czech Republic
- German name Burg Ostrý Kameň Slovakia Hrad Ostrý Kameň
- Scharfenstein (Harz)Scharfenstein (Harz)The Scharfenstein today is a park ranger station with self-catering facilities in the Harz National Park in Germany and is sited below the 698 m high Scharfenstein Crag in the Harz mountains between Ilsenburg and Bad Harzburg and the Brocken near the Ecker Dam...
, a National park station in Harz.