Talk:Saxon Switzerland
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Have any of you got an English native-speaker source for calling this area a "Switzerland"? It sounds OK in German, but in English it sounds ridiculous. In English, these hill-and-lake scenic landscapes are called "lake districts" and the 19th century history of tourist promotion of such areas in Germany (Holsteinische Schweiz too) and the English-speaking world is broadly parallel. "Schweiz" is a promotional term that does not translate. The headword should be either "Saxon Schweiz" or "Saxon Lake District".
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- Here's your native speaker [1]. --128.176.232.185 15:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Geography???
"It continues as Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic where it meets the Giant Mountains"
There's no connection between Bohemian Switzerland and the Giant Mountains. From west to east: Saxon Switzerland/Bohemian Switzerland - Lusatian Mountains/Zittauer Gebirge - Jizera Mountains - Giant Mountains.
The administrative division named "Sächsische Schweiz" and the landscape are NOT identical, thus it is wrong to merge them into one article. The landscape extends further than the district, and is definitely older than the district, which was just created in 1994. And while the distrcit may change name in future, or may change its extend, the landscape will stay the same. You might notice that in the German wikipedia there are two separate articles as well. andy 11:06, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
- This is right.
has some 1,000 peaks that have never been climbed - This is wrong. Today there are no unclimbed peaks in the Saxon Switzerland anymore. Every little Boulder (officiall climbing peak if more than 15 meters of free climbimg path, and one can not 'walk' on) is already climbed today. -- de:Burts 12:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
