Tharandt

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Tharandt
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
Admin. region	Dresden
District	Weißeritzkreis
Municipal assoc.	Tharandt
Town subdivisions	7
Mayor	Silvio Ziesemer
Basic statistics
Area	71.22 km² (27.5 sq mi)
Elevation	214 m  (702 ft)
Population	5,601  (31/12/2006)
- Density	79 /km² (204 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	DW
Postal code	01737
Area code	035203
Website	www.tharandt.de Coordinates: 50°59′0″N 13°34′51″E / 50.98333, 13.58083

Tharandt is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, 9 miles southwest of Dresden, on the Dresden-Reichenbach railway.

It has a Protestant Church, a hydropathic establishment, and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany, founded by Heinrich Cotta in 1811. In 2002 a severe flood destroyed much of the academy buildings and the library with some of its more than 500 years 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. Tharandt is a favorite summer resort of the people of Dresden, one of its principal charms being the magnificent beech woods which surround it.

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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