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    Johanngeorgenstadt is a mining town the Saxon Ore Mountains near the border with the Czech Republic.

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    Founded in the 17th century by religious refugees from Bohemia, this town has a long mining tradition, from tin and iron to uranium. Pitchblende from here was used to discover the element of uranium and after World War II the SDAG Wismut (a deliberately deceptive name meaning "Bismuth", a harmless metal they definitely weren't after) searched for Uranium here and mined it in such a destructive fashion that large parts of the old town had to be torn down. The town immediately borders the Czech Republic and thanks to the Schengen Treaty you can simply walk across the border if you so chose.

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    • 1 Bahnhof Johanngeorgenstadt. The train station sees hourly service from Zwickau and several daily trains from Karlovy Vary. Unfortunately, plans to have trains continue between both cities have never materialized and thus you'd have to change here if heading from Zwickau to the West Bohemian Spa Triangle. The line to Karlovy Vary twists and turns through a stunning mountain landscape and is known in the Czech Republic as the "Krušnohorský Semmering" ("Ore Mountain Semmering") after the famous Austrian mountain railway. Johanngeorgenstadt (Q58653721) on Wikidata

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    Map
    Map of Johanngeorgenstadt

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    • 1 Weihnachtspyramide (Christmas Pyramid). A Christmas pyramid on year-round display. At 25.52 m (83.7 ft) it claims to be the highest in the world Christmas Pyramid (Q28037570) on Wikidata
    • 2 Frisch Glück Show Mine (Lehr- & Schaubergwerk Frisch Glück "Glöckl"), Wittigsthalstr. 13-15 08349, +49 3773 882140, . (Q22691945) on Wikidata
    • 3 Stadtkirche. The original church was built in the 1650s by Bohemian religious refugees who had to flee when the Habsburgs imposed mandatory Catholicism on their homeland. It burned down in 1867 and the current church is a neo-Gothic church from the 1870s. Stadtkirche Johanngeorgenstadt (Q1670106) on Wikidata

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    The town charges a "Gästetaxe" of €1 per day for all who stay here. In exchange you'll get a guest card which gives you a rebate in many venues in and around town.

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    If you're coming from the German side, why not hop across the border to the Czech Republic? Karlovy Vary, one of the three corners of the West Bohemian Spa Triangle is only an hour away across a gorgeous mountain railway.

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