Western Erzgebirge

The western Erzgebirge offers a wide range of features of interest, recreation areas and holiday centers. Among them are the Augustusburg, a 16th C. hunting lodge of the Electors of Saxony situated on the edge of the Zschopau valley, within easy reach of Chemnitz; the Sachsenring motor-racing circuit (8.7km/5.5mi long) at Hohenstein-Ernstthal; Schneeberg; the outlook tower on the forest-covered Auersberg; the well planned little town of Annaberg, with its monumental Late Gothic church of St Anne and the Frohnauer, an old ironworks; and the health resort of Seiffen, center of the Saxon toy-making industry, with the Erzgebirge Toy Museum.

Artificial lakes

Among popular recreation areas, particularly in summer, are