SCHANDAU  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, situated on the right bank of the Elbe, at the mouth of the little valley of the Kirnitsch . It is 4 M. from the Bohemian frontier, 20 M . S.E. of Dresden on the railway to Bodenbach, and has a branch to Niederneukirch, which is carried from the railway station lying on the right bank across the Elbe by an iron bridge . Pop . (1905) 3373 . Schandau has an Evangelical parish church, a hydropathic establishment and a school of river navigation . The position of Schandau in the heart of the romantic " Saxon Switzerland " has made it a place of importance, and thousands of tourists make it their headquarters in summer . For their accommodation numerous hotels and villas have been der Franzosen im Revolutionskrieg, is his best-known work . Shortly after this he was promoted major and employed on erected . The chief manufactures of the town are artificial flowers and furniture . See Schafer, Fi hrer durch Schandau and seine Umgebung (Dresden, 1907) .