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Winemaker Klaus Zimmerling shows Grauer Burgunder grapes from the second budding on a vine in his vineyard in Dresden-Pillnitz / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa

Saxon viticulture suffers from crop failures

The vineyards in Saxony's Elbe Valley have green leaves and the vines have sprouted again after the late frost. However, fruit is rare, depending on the location - but there could be top wines.

A blue light shines on the roof of a police car / Photo: Friso Gentsch/dpa/Symbolic image

Car collides with moped: 83-year-old seriously injured

An 83-year-old moped rider has suffered serious injuries in a collision with a car in Meißen. A 36-year-old man hit the moped rider with his car while turning left on Wednesday, a police spokesman said on Thursday. The moped rider was seriously injured and taken to hospital. Property damage of aroun ..

Frozen grapes lie in a trough for the ice wine harvest in a vineyard of the Saxon Winegrowers' Cooperative / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

Thanks to icy temperatures: night-time ice wine harvest

In the freezing cold, employees of the Meißen winegrowers' cooperative harvested frozen grapes for ice wine on Tuesday night. Grapes of the Cabernet Blanc variety were harvested on around 3000 square meters at just under minus eleven degrees, as the cooperative announced. Temperatures of at least mi ..

Visitors to a Christmas market stand at a stall selling sweets. / Photo: Monika Skolimowska/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Symbolic image

Christmas market season opens: Meissen makes the start

The Christmas market season opened in Saxony on Monday. The Free State is particularly known for its unique Christmas craftsmanship, from Erzgebirge arts and crafts to Dresden Christmas stollen and Herrnhut stars, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced on Monday. Highlights in many cities are ..