Chemnitz (deu)

Chemnitz

Chemnitz ranks 459th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Frederiksberg, Angers, and Omsk. Memorable people born in Chemnitz include Johannes Frießner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Christian Gottlob Neefe. Memorable people who died in Chemnitz include Georgius Agricola, and Karin Balzer. Chemnitz has been the birth place of many athletes, and swimmers and the death place of many physicians, and athletes. Chemnitz is located in Germany.

Chemnitz 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 fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden. 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. Read more on Wikipedia