Tharandt

Tharandt
Tharandt
	Coat of arms
	Location of Tharandt within Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district
	Tharandt Tharandt
	Coordinates: 50°59′0″N 13°34′51″E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
Municipal assoc.	Tharandt
Subdivisions	7
Government
• Mayor	Silvio Ziesemer
Area
• Total	71.22 km2 (27.50 sq mi)
Elevation	214 m (702 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	5,439
• Density	76/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	01737
Dialling codes	035203
Vehicle registration	PIR
Website	www.tharandt.de

Tharandt (German: [ˈtaʁant] (listen)) is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, 9 miles southwest of Dresden.

It has a Protestant Church and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany, founded as the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry by Heinrich Cotta in 1811,[2] together with its arboretum, the Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt. In 2002, a severe flood destroyed many of the academy buildings and the library, including some of its more-than-500-year old books. The academy was rebuilt and today has about 650 students and is famous for its long traditions of educating students from all over the world in (tropical) forestry, resource management and sustainable land use.

In the early 20th century, Tharandt was a favorite summer resort of the people of Dresden, one of its principal charms being the magnificent beech woods which surround it.[2]

Personalities connected to the town

Heinrich Cotta (1833)

Sidonie of Poděbrady (died 1510 in Tharandt), Duchess of Saxony, wife of the Duke Albrecht the Boldheart
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), poet, theater director, naturalist, art theorist and statesman; he visited Heinrich Cotta several times from 1811
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) was in the town in 1787
Heinrich Cotta (1763–1844), forestry scholar, lived in Tharandt since 1811, where he was director of the Royal Saxon Forestry Academy.

References

"Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen nach Gemeinden am 31. Dezember 2019". Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). July 2020.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tharandt". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 726.

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[1] "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen nach Gemeinden am 31. Dezember 2019". Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). July 2020.

[EB1911-2] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tharandt". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 726.