Thanks to more than 800 years of almost continuous mining and processing of ores, a unique mining landscape was created in the Ore Mountains with unique montane monuments both above and below ground and with a dense network of mining towns. It illustrates the enormous impact that mining and ore processing on both sides of the mountains has had on the development of mining and metallurgy around the world, namely the contribution of world-class inventions and innovations in mining and metallurgical technologies. On the Czech side, these are the mining landscapes of Jáchymov, Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná, Krupka, Mědník and the Red Tower of Death.