Nature - Leyla Dirim

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Bastei, Saxon Switzerland

#Saxon Switzerland is the German part of the #Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony. The #landscape, which is characterized by #bizarre #rock forms, lies southeast of #Dresden on both sides of the Elbe in the district Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore #Mountains

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It doesn’t matter in which part of the world I am traveling, I stop and look intensively at the nature around me to capture what I want to share with my friends at that moment…

Bizarre, quirky, original… whatever words you find, let yourself be impressed! Of sandstone needles and rocky reefs, beech forests and torrents – masterpieces of nature, which have been protected as a national park since 1990. The total work of art “National Park Region Saxon Switzerland” is completed in its landscape protection area of wide plains with majestic table mountains and the deeply incised Elbe River.

It is a unique protected landscape area with bizarre rocks, picturesque valleys and healthy forests. The part on the German side is called Saxon Switzerland. On the Czech side is the Bohemian Switzerland.

The Bastei is located 200 m above the Elbe and the climatic health resort Rathen. The Bastei bridge was built in 1851 as a stone bridge. It has a length of 76.50 m, 7 stone arches and rises almost 50 m over a canyon. The neighboring rock castle Neurathen was built by knights in the 14th century and served them as a protective wall and hiding place on their raids on the trade routes in the valley.

Standing on the Bastei viewing rock, one looks down on the Elbe between Lilienstein and Königstein and recognizes the contrast between the steep impact slope at Niederrathen and the gently rising hills at Oberrathen. The health resort Rathen, located below the Bastei, is known as the starting point for many hiking and climbing tours in Saxon Switzerland and also because of its impressive open-air theater, the Felsenbühne Rathen. Looking to the left you can see the Bastei bridge with its rock massif.

Leyla Dirim has now collected hundreds of photographs of lush natural landscapes and looks back on an ever-growing collection of motifs, colors, and textures. The photographic reservoir of new elements grows with every journey.