Youth hostel Pirna-Copitz

Tips for your stay

The town of Pirna itself is reason enough to visit. Situated on the river Elbe, the historic old town is home to the Late Gothic Canaletto House and the lavishly adorned Church of St. Mary as well as numerous impressive Renaissance buildings and the old Dominican monastery, making this a great place to explore and for school trips. Sonnenstein Castle treats visitors to stunning views of the Elbe region and the town itself. Pirna also has a museum of local history where the exhibitions are updated regularly, a sports and leisure centre, a bowling and fitness centre, an all-year pool with exclusive bathing and sauna facilities and giant slide as well as a cinema.

Sightseeing and excursions

• Walks and excursions
• Pirna with historic town centre
• Canaletto trail
• Saxon Switzerland (Elbe Sandstone Mountains) - Malerweg ("Painters' Path")
• Pillnitz Castle, Großsedlitz Baroque Gardens
• Dresden - Saxony's state capital
• Meißen - City of porcelain
• Radebeul, including Karl May Museum
• Moritzburg Castle
• Stolpen Castle
• Trips to the eastern Ore Mountains
• In Rathen you'll also find one of the most beautiful open-air stages in the world, with performances from May to September. Steamboat rides on the Elbe in both directions from the pier in Pirna. To help you plan your stay, the Youth Hostel also offers a broad array of programme components.
• Partners, links, tips and background information
• The following is a list of some of our regional partners and interesting tips for your stay:
• Pirna
• Pirna - Gateway to Saxon Switzerland. Information for residents, tourists, investors. www.pirna.de
• Malerweg
• On 10 June 2006, new life was breathed into one of Germany's most unspoiled and romantic walking trails. As far back as 200 years ago travellers would come and be amazed by the endless array of bizarre rock formations, wild gorges and lofty plateaus offering breathtaking views. Generation after generation of artists followed in their footsteps through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, including Romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus and Ludwig Richter. They all stuck to a popular route that would later become known as the "Malerweg". Today, it also continues to the left of the Elbe.www.malerweg.de
• Elbe Cycle Route
• Art, history, nature and hospitality - According to the ADFC cyclists' club, the Elbe Cycle Route is one of Germany's three favourite cycle paths. To find out just what it entails and the interesting things to see en route visit the following homepage. www.elberadweg.de
• Dresden Stadtspiele ("City Games")
• Hilarious skat and rummy card games to teach you about the city - play, read and discover the city! - Saxony's most sophisticated love nest, live cows in a shop window and a cable car across shaky ground - the "Stadtverführer" will show you this and much more in the "Florence on the Elbe"...
• Homepage
• Erich Kästner Detective Game
• In the outer Neustadt area, a gang want to blow up all of the places that remind us of Erich Kästner. The industry is behind this; they want kids to stop reading books and just play computer games, watch TV and eat popcorn. And that's why the gang is called the Popcorn Gang. The explosives have all been laid. Luckily, the gang's boss was vain enough to tag them all with letters from his name. So all you need to do is find the letters and put them in the correct order, then you can arrest him. Along the way you'll find out how Kästner lived here 100 years ago. For more information:
• http://www.kaestner-detektivspiel.de/_schulen/index.php?seite=inc/grosse.php