Comprensorio sciistico Waltersdorf - NSG Lausche

Lausche (Czech: Luž), is, at 793 metres (2,602 ft), the highest peak of the Lusatian Mountains and the highest mountain in the German part of the Upper Lusatia region. The conical mountain is part of the Zittau Mountains range, situated on the border of the German state of Saxony with the Bohemian region of the Czech Republic.

The Lusatian Mountains (Czech: Lužické hory; German: Lausitzer Gebirge; Polish: Góry Łużyckie) are a mountain range of the Western Sudetes on the southeastern border of Germany with the Czech Republic. They are a continuation of the Ore Mountains range west of the Elbe valley. The mountains of the northern, German, part are called the Zittau Mountains.

The Zittau Mountains (German: Zittauer Gebirge), formerly also called the Lusatian Ridge (Lausitzer Kamm, Czech. Žitavské hory), refer to the German part of the Lusatian Mountains that straddle the Saxon-Bohemian border in the extreme southeast of the German state of Saxony.