From top, left to right: Old town hall and High Tower (St James' Church) at night, Castle Pond (Schlossteich) from above, Rabenstein Castle, Karl Marx Monument, Chemnitz Opera House at night, Red Tower (right) and Galerie Roter Turm shopping centre (left)
Chemnitz (German:[ˈkɛmnɪts]ⓘ; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt[kaʁlˈmaʁksˌʃtat]ⓘ, lit.'Karl Marx City') is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. Chemnitz is the third-largest city in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect area after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the fifth largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Halle. The city is part of the Central German Metropolitan Region, and lies in the middle of a string of cities sitting in the densely populated northern foreland of the Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast.
Located in the Ore Mountain Basin, the city is surrounded by the Ore Mountains to the south and the Central Saxon Hill Country to the north. The city stands on the Chemnitz River, which is formed through the confluence of the rivers Zwönitz and Würschnitz in the borough of Altchemnitz.
The name of the city as well as the names of the rivers are of Slavic origin. The city's economy is based on the service sector and manufacturing industry. Chemnitz University of Technology has around 10,000 students.
Chemnitz was the richest city in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, is kown for its many industrial age buildings and monuments,[3] and will be the European Capital of Culture of 2025.[4]
^Wahlergebnisse 2020 Archived 11 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Freistaat Sachsen, accessed 10 July 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen nach Gemeinden am 31. Dezember 2021" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2022.
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