The Felsenlabyrinth is a maze of Elbe sandstone rocks in Saxon Switzerland, east of Langenhennersdorf, at the southern end of the Nikolsdorfer Wände. It's easy to lose your sense of direction among its narrow crevices and rocky passages - which is exactly the charm of this place.

The rocks themselves are relatively low, standing five to fifteen meters tall, but heavy erosion and deep fissures have carved out a confusing maze of stone corridors. Weathering has left many walls pinched into hourglass shapes and hollowed the summits into bowl-like depressions, caused by the leaching of lime from sand pockets within the rock. Around the rocks grows a largely untouched forest of beech, pine and spruce, some trees up to 200 years old, while the rock surfaces host lichens including the strikingly bright yellow sulphur lichen. The surrounding slopes are littered with sandstone boulders, a legacy of intense erosion that has also made forestry here difficult and helped preserve the natural woodland.

A numbered path leads visitors through the crevices, though wandering off the marked trail to explore on your own is just as rewarding.

• Langenhennersdorf — on foot, moderate difficulty
• Also accessible from the Leupoldishain side

• The entire Labyrinth area covers about 3.5 hectares
• Protected as a nature monument (FND) since 1979
• At the entrance stands the Labyrinthwächter climbing rock, with eight climbing routes, the easiest being the Alte Weg (grade III on the Saxon scale)

The name Labyrinth likely dates back to the Romantic era, when travelers were captivated by its mysterious, tangled network of rocky passages.