Lusatian Fault

The start of the fault in the west is assessed as being near Oschatz, but it first becomes topographically significant as a steep ledge near Weinböhla.

In Hohnstein by the so-called Wartenberg Road (Wartenbergstraße) is the only geological outcrop where the granite of Lusatia lies immediately above the sandstone.

At the Ještěd (Jeschken) is the highest point on the fault line, a topographical dominant that is visible from a long way off.

The fault then runs eastwards, almost in a straight line, along the Ještěd-Kozákov Ridge - interrupted by the valleys of the Mohelka and the Jizera - to Kozákov in the Bohemian Paradise.

Here the once horizontal sandstone beds were tilted vertically by the pressure of the fault and, today, form an impressive rock formation.