Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Erzgebirge
German, literally "ore mountains."
Usage examples of "erzgebirge".
Some mines in the Harz and the Erzgebirge already had very well-organized networks of horse carts.
By now, having skirted Saxony, they were through the low Erzgebirge mountains and beginning to enter the Bohemian plain.
The district is known as the Erzgebirge or Ore Mountains, and the Riesengebirge or Giant Mountains, MacCulloch says that upwards of 500 mines are wrought in the former district, and that one-thirtieth of the entire population of Saxony to this day derive their subsistence from mining industry and the manufacture of metallic products.