The Döhlen Basin (German: Döhlener Becken) is a landscape unit in the German federal state of Saxony, southwest of Dresden. The Döhlen Basin has a length of 22 km and a width of 6 km and lies within the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge.
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In the centre of the basin is the large county town of Freital; although the basin is named after Döhlen, one of the villages in the borough. The highest point in the area is the Lerchenberg near Possendorf at 425 m above NN; the lowest point is in the river valley of the Weißeritz at 160 m above NN. The Karsdorf fault forms the geological boundary with the Eastern Ore Mountains to the south.