page_title: Vogtland
section_title: Cultural geography
hierarchical_section_title: Vogtland / Geography / Cultural geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Elstertalbrücke bei Jocketa überspannt die Weiße Elster
context_page_description: Vogtland is a region spanning the German federal states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia and north-western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It overlaps with and is largely contained within Euregio Egrensis. The name alludes to the former leadership by the Vögte of Weida, Gera and Plauen.
context_section_description: The river valley geography in Vogtland's north made it necessary to build comparatively big bridges to channel railroad and automobile traffic streams. Especially famous is the Göltzsch Viaduct for being the world's largest bridge built of bricks and her "little sister", the Elster Viaduct. Both of them are in use as railroad bridges closing the gap between Dresden and Nuremberg.
  As road bridges are concerned, the major bridges forming part of the A 72 near Hof, Pirk and Weißensand are the most important ones, while one urban bridge poses as a rarity: The Syratal Viaduct is Europe's biggest mono-arch bridge made of chunked natural stone - to be found in Plauen, commonly called Friedensbrücke.
  Integral part of the Vogtland landscape are its reservoirs, the shores of which mostly are popular holiday and camping destinations.
  Plauen, the largest town, is known as the "capital of the Vogtland" or, with a proud note, as "Vogtlandmetropolis". Other towns of regional significance are:
  In Saxony:
  Reichenbach
  Auerbach
  In Thuringia:
  Greiz
  In Bavaria:
  Hof
  In the Czech Republic:
  Cheb
caption: Elster Viaduct on Leipzig–Hof railway (with Elster Valley Railway below) in 1900
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