Bad Schandau, is a town of Germany, in the state of Saxony. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, at the mouth of the little valley of the Kirnitsch. With an area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... The Elbe River (Czech Labe listen ▶(?), Sorbian/Lusatian Łobjo, Polish Łaba, German Elbe, Hungarian Elba) is one of the major waterways of central Europe. ...

It is 4 miles from the Czech frontier, 20 miles southeast of Dresden on the railway to Děčín, and has a branch to Neukirch/Lausitz, which is carried from the railway station lying on the right bank across the Elbe by an iron bridge. Pop. (2005) 3,082. Dresden is the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe. ... Děčín (in German Tetschen) is one of the larger cities in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. ...

Bad Schandau has an Evangelical parish church, a hydropathic establishment and a school of river navigation. The position of Bad Schandau in the heart of the romantic Saxon Switzenland has made it a place of importance, and thousands of tourists make it their headquarters in summer. For their accommodation numerous hotels and villas have been erected. The chief manufactures of the town are artificial flowers and furniture. The prefix "Bad" was added in the 19th century to designate the spa status of the town ("bad" meaning "bath" in German).

See Schafer, Führer durch Schandau und seine Umgebung (Dresden, 1907).

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