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Chemnitz

Chemnitz is a city in southwestern , and the third-largest city in the state, after and . The settlement developed around a monastery, and was granted city status in 1170.
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  • Type: City with 243,000 residents
  • Description: city in Saxony, Germany
  • Historically known as: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Karl Marx Monument and Chemnitz Railway Station.

Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a 7.10m -tall stylized head of Karl Marx in Chemnitz, . The heavy-duty sculpture, together with the base platform, stand over 13 meters tall and weighs approximately 40 tonnes.

Railway station
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Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Chemnitz in , .

Stadium
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is a single-use football in Chemnitz, and the home stadium of Chemnitzer FC. Between 1950 and 1990, the stadium was called "Dr.-Kurt-Fischer-Stadion". The stadium was later nicknamed the "Fischerwiese".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schloßchemnitz and Borna-Heinersdorf.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Chemnitz

Latitude
50.8324° or 50° 49′ 57″ north
Longitude
12.9189° or 12° 55′ 8″ east
Population
243,000
Elevation
306 metres (1,004 feet)
IATA airport code
ZTZ
United Nations Location Code
DE CHE
Open location code
9F2JRWJ9+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20830918
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2940132
Wiki­data ID
Q2795
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chemnitz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chemnitz”
  • Albanian: “Chemnitz”
  • Arabic: “كيمنتس”
  • Aragonese: “Chemnitz”
  • Armenian: “Խեմնից”
  • Armenian: “Քեմնից”
  • Arpitan: “Chemnitz”
  • Asturian: “Chemnitz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xemnits”
  • Balinese: “Chemnitz”
  • Bashkir: “Хемниц”
  • Basque: “Chemnitz”
  • Bavarian: “Chemnitz”
  • Bavarian: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Belarusian: “Кемніц”
  • Belarusian: “Хемніц”
  • Bengali: “কেমনিট্‌জ”
  • Bengali: “চেমনিতয”
  • Breton: “Chemnitz”
  • Bulgarian: “Кемниц”
  • Catalan: “Chemnitz”
  • Cebuano: “Chemnitz”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Chemnitz”
  • Central Kurdish: “کێمنتس”
  • Chechen: “Хемниц”
  • Chinese: “Chemnitz”
  • Chinese: “凯姆尼兹”
  • Chinese: “凱姆尼茲”
  • Chinese: “刻姆尼斯”
  • Chinese: “卡尔·马克思城”
  • Chinese: “卡尔·马克思市”
  • Chinese: “卡爾·馬克思城”
  • Chinese: “卡爾·馬克思市”
  • Chinese: “开姆尼茨”
  • Chinese: “真尼沙”
  • Chinese: “肯尼兹”
  • Chinese: “肯尼茲”
  • Chinese: “開姆尼茨”
  • Chuvash: “Хемниц”
  • Corsican: “Chemnitz”
  • Croatian: “Chemnitz”
  • Czech: “Chemnitz”
  • Czech: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Czech: “Saská Kamenice”
  • Danish: “Chemnitz”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Chemnitz”
  • Dutch: “Chemnitz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيمنتس”
  • Esperanto: “Chemnitz”
  • Esperanto: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Estonian: “Chemnitz”
  • Finnish: “Chemnitz”
  • French: “Chemnitz”
  • French: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Friulian: “Chemnitz”
  • Galician: “Chemnitz”
  • Georgian: “კემნიცი”
  • Georgian: “ქემნიცი”
  • German: “Chemnitz”
  • German: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Greek: “Κέμνιτς”
  • Gujarati: “કેમનિટ્ઝ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chemnitz”
  • Hausa: “Chemnitz”
  • Hebrew: “קמניץ”
  • Hindi: “केम्नित्ज़”
  • Hungarian: “Chemnitz”
  • Icelandic: “Chemnitz”
  • Ido: “Chemnitz”
  • Indonesian: “Chemnitz”
  • Interlingua: “Chemnitz”
  • Interlingue: “Chemnitz”
  • Irish: “Chemnitz”
  • Italian: “Chemnitz”
  • Japanese: “カールマルクスシュタット”
  • Japanese: “ケムニッツ”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಮ್ನಿಟ್ಜ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хемниц”
  • Kirghiz: “Хемниц”
  • Kongo: “Chemnitz”
  • Korean: “켐니츠”
  • Kurdish: “Chemnitz”
  • Ladin: “Chemnitz”
  • Latin: “Chemnicium”
  • Latvian: “Hemnica”
  • Latvian: “Karlmarksštate”
  • Latvian: “Kemnica”
  • Ligurian: “Chemnitz”
  • Limburgan: “Chemnitz”
  • Lithuanian: “Chemnicas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kemnicas”
  • Lombard: “Chemnitz”
  • Low German: “Chemnitz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chemnitz”
  • Macedonian: “Кемниц”
  • Malagasy: “Chemnitz”
  • Malay: “Chemnitz”
  • Maltese: “Chemnitz”
  • Marathi: “केम्निट्झ”
  • Mazanderani: “کمنیتز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chemnitz”
  • Minangkabau: “Chemnitz”
  • Moksha: “Хэмниц”
  • Mongolian: “Хемниц”
  • Narom: “Chemnitz”
  • Neapolitan: “Chemnitz”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chemnitz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chemnitz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chemnitz”
  • Norwegian: “Chemnitz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chemnitz”
  • Ossetian: “Хемниц”
  • Persian: “کمنیتز”
  • Persian: “کمنیتس”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Chemnitz”
  • Picard: “Chemnitz”
  • Piemontese: “Chemnitz”
  • Polish: “Chemnitz”
  • Polish: “Kamienica Saska”
  • Polish: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Portuguese: “Chemnitz”
  • Romanian: “Chemnitz”
  • Romansh: “Chemnitz”
  • Russian: “Карл-Маркс-Штадт”
  • Russian: “Хемниц”
  • Sardinian: “Chemnitz”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Chemnitz”
  • Scots: “Chemnitz”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Chemnitz”
  • Serbian: “Chemnitz”
  • Serbian: “Кемниц”
  • Serbian: “Хемниц”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chemnitz”
  • Sicilian: “Chemnitz”
  • Silesian: “Chemnitz”
  • Sinhala: “කෙම්නිට්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Chemnitz”
  • Slovak: “Kamenica”
  • Slovak: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Slovenian: “Chemnitz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کمنیتس”
  • Spanish: “Chemnitz”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Carlos Marx”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Karl Marx”
  • Spanish: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Swahili: “Chemnitz”
  • Swedish: “Chemnitz”
  • Swiss German: “Chemnitz”
  • Tamil: “செம்னிட்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Хемниц”
  • Telugu: “కెమింట్స్”
  • Thai: “เคมนิทซ์”
  • Thai: “เค็มนิทซ์”
  • Tumbuka: “Chemnitz”
  • Turkish: “Chemnitz”
  • Turkish: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
  • Ukrainian: “Карл-Маркс-Штадт”
  • Ukrainian: “Хемніц”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Chemnitz”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kamjenica”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karla Marxowe město”
  • Urdu: “چیمنٹز”
  • Uzbek: “Chemnitz”
  • Venetian: “Chemnitz”
  • Vietnamese: “Chemnitz”
  • Vlaams: “Chemnitz”
  • Volapük: “Chemnitz”
  • Walloon: “Chemnitz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chemnitz”
  • Welsh: “Chemnitz”
  • Western Frisian: “Chemnitz”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیمنتز”
  • Wolof: “Chemnitz”
  • Wu Chinese: “开姆尼茨”
  • Yiddish: “קעמניץ”
  • Yue Chinese: “刻姆尼斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Chemnitz”
  • Zulu: “Chemnitz”
  • “Chemnitz”
  • “Karl-Marx-Stadt”

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