The "Free State of Saxony" with its Capital Dresden, an area of 18.415,51 km² and 4.249.774 inhabitants is a state of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). It has common borders with the Czech Republic (in the south) and with Poland (in the east).
In the north Saxony borders on "Brandenburg", in the north-west on "Saxony-Anhalt", in the west on the "Free State of Thuringia" and in the south-west on the "Free State of Bavaria".
After the king resigned and the kingdom Saxony dissolved, 1918 the first "Free state of Saxony" was founded.
Since 1945 the "State Saxony“ was part of the sowjet-occupied area. It was dissolved and divided up into 3 areas ("Bezirke") Chemnitz (later „Karl-Marx-Stadt“), Dresden and Leipzig.
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the "State Saxony" was refounded by constitutional law for origins of new states (Ländereinführungsgesetz) from the 22.07.1990.
Here you can find informations about Zittau, Olbersdorf and the "Zittauer Gebirge"