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| Hainichen | ||
| federal state | Saxony | |
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| Residents | 8.588 (2019) | |
| height | 304 m | |
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The small town Hainichen is located on the western edge of the Striegistäler landscape protection area Central Saxon hill country. The first foothills of the Ore Mountains. Hainichen is the birthplace of the poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769).
getting there
By plane
By train
In the rail traffic, Hainichen is just out Chemnitz reachable, where the route is served by the Chemnitzer City-Bahn. The continuation after Horse wine in the Muldental was shut down. Here the old railway line has been replaced by the Striegistal cycle path.
By bus
In the street
Hainichen is via the junction of the same name 
73 Hainichen can be reached on the A4 Chemnitz – Dresden motorway. Via the B 169 one arrives from Chub (A 14) from to Hainichen.
By bicycle
mobility
Tourist Attractions
At the parking lot to the right of the town hall there is a notice board with a “discovery path”, a suggestion for a tour of the city.
The is in front of the town hall on the market square Gellert statuethat commemorates the city's most famous son. The bronze image was inaugurated on October 26, 1865 and restored in 1998/99. You can find it on the left behind the town hall Clothmaker's house (1783/84) in half-timbered style. There is a demonstration workshop in it that can be visited. Not far from there you get to the city Park, this is forest-like with trees and laid out on a hillside. The main entrance leads directly to the Flower clock, Bronze statue 'donkey', Gellert Museum and a restaurant. In the park you will also find an enclosure with deer, an aviary with ornamental birds, a children's playground, an open-air stage, a mausoleum, which is between the market and the train station Trinity Church (1896/99) .
activities
- The Stadtbad (Outdoor swimming pool) is located south of Hainichen.
shop
kitchen
- Ice cream parlor in the outbuilding of the Sparkasse to the right of the town hall.
nightlife
accommodation
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health
Practical advice
trips
- Frankenberg (10 km southwest, B 169) - the "Barkas" was built here in the GDR. After the "turnaround" and the associated cessation of production, the Frankenberg Vehicle Museum was set up.
- Mittweida (12 km to the west) - the city lies like Frankenberg on the Zschopau; Evangelical Lutheran City Church “Our Dear Women”.
- Oederan (15 km south) - known for its miniature exhibition "Klein-Erzgebirge"; Gothic hall church with Silbermann organ.
- Horse wine (15 km north) - formerly an important industrial site on the Mulde. Historical indoor swimming pool; near the Troischaufelsen.
- Waldheim (15 km to the north-west) - worth seeing Art Nouveau town hall directly on the Zschopau; nearby the castle Kriebstein.
- Chub (20 km north, B 169) - Döbeln is the largest town in the central Saxon hill country and has two marketplaces and a horse-drawn tram.
- Freiberg (20 km southeast, via Bräunsdorf) - the unofficial capital of the Ore Mountains; Centuries of silver mining have shaped them.
literature
Web links
- http://www.hainichen.de - Official website of Hainichen
- Hainichen Discovery Trail
- Historical views of the city of Hainichen
