Chemnitz
Chemnitz is a city in southwestern Saxony, and the third-largest city in the state, after Dresden and Leipzig. The settlement developed around a monastery, and was granted city status in 1170.
- City with about 247,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 300 metres (970 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ZTZ
- …was formerly known as “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
- Description: city in Saxony, Germany
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karl Marx Monument and Chemnitz Railway Station.
Karl Marx Monument
The Karl Marx Monument is a 7.10-metre-tall stylized head of Karl Marx in Chemnitz, Germany.
Stadion an der Gellertstraße
Stadion an der Gellertstraße is a single-use football…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glösa and Bahrebachsiedlung.
Chemnitz
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Latitude
50.8324° or 50° 49′ 57″ north
Longitude
12.9189° or 12° 55′ 8″ east
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Open location code
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OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Belarusian: “Кемніц”
- Belarusian: “Хемніц”
- Bengali: “কেমনিট্জ”
- Bengali: “চেমনিতয”
- Breton: “Chemnitz”
- Bulgarian: “Кемниц”
- Catalan: “Chemnitz”
- Cebuano: “Chemnitz”
- Central Kurdish: “کێمنتس”
- Chechen: “Хемниц”
- Chinese: “凯姆尼兹”
- Chinese: “凱姆尼茲”
- 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: “Saská Kamenice”
- Danish: “Chemnitz”
- Dimli (individual language): “Chemnitz”
- Dutch: “Chemnitz”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيمنتس”
- Esperanto: “Chemnitz”
- Estonian: “Chemnitz”
- Finnish: “Chemnitz”
- French: “Chemnitz”
- Friulian: “Chemnitz”
- Galician: “Chemnitz”
- Georgian: “კემნიცი”
- Georgian: “ქემნიცი”
- German: “Chemnitz”
- German: “Karl-Marx-Stadt”
- German: “Kleinmanchester”
- German: “Sächsisches Manchester”
- German: “Schlotheim”
- German: “Schlotstadt”
- Greek: “Κέμνιτς”
- Gujarati: “કેમનિટ્ઝ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chemnitz”
- Hausa: “Chemnitz”
- Hebrew: “קמניץ”
- Hindi: “केमनित्स”
- 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”
- Jèrriais: “Chemnitz”
- Kannada: “ಚಿಮ್ನಿಟ್ಜ್”
- Kazakh: “Хемниц”
- Kirghiz: “Хемниц”
- Kongo: “Chemnitz”
- Korean: “켐니츠”
- Kotava: “Chemnitz”
- 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: “Ċemnitz”
- Maltese: “Chemnitz”
- Marathi: “केम्निट्झ”
- Mazanderani: “کمنیتز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chemnitz”
- Minangkabau: “Chemnitz”
- Moksha: “Хэмниц”
- Mongolian: “Хемниц”
- 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”
- 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: “Kamenica”
- Slovenian: “Chemnitz”
- South Azerbaijani: “کمنیتس”
- Spanish: “Chemnitz”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Carlos Marx”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Karl Marx”
- Swahili: “Chemnitz”
- Swedish: “Chemnitz”
- Swiss German: “Chemnitz”
- Tamil: “செம்னிட்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Хемниц”
- Telugu: “కెమింట్స్”
- Thai: “เค็มนิทซ์”
- Tumbuka: “Chemnitz”
- Turkish: “Chemnitz”
- Ukrainian: “Карл-Маркс-Штадт”
- Ukrainian: “Хемніц”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kamjenica”
- Upper Sorbian: “Karla Marxowe město”
- Urdu: “چیمنٹز”
- Urdu: “کیمنٹز”
- 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”
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