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| Mittweida | ||
| federal state | Saxony | |
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| Residents | 14.645 (2019) | |
| height | 276 m | |
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The town Mittweida is about midway between Chemnitz and Waldheim and left the Zschopau im Central Saxon hill country.
background
getting there
By plane
By train
The train driver travels every hour with the regional train Chemnitz–Riesa–Elsterwerda or with the ChemnitzBahn line C14 from downtown Chemnitz. Mittweida belongs to the network area of the Verkehrsverbund Mittelachsen (VMS) and is located there in tariff zone 3. Association tickets with the corresponding tariff zone are valid on all means of transport. The Saxony (Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia) ticket is also valid on all VMS means of transport.
By bus
In the street
The driver can reach Mittweida from the direction of Erfurt or Dresden via the A 4. From the direction of Erfurt, leave the motorway at the exit 
71 Chemnitz-Ost and from Dresden at the exit 73 Hainichen.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
On the Marketplace a post milestone pillar in the Saxon district and the market fountain with an Art Nouveau angel of peace. From the market square along Weberstrasse, you come to Kirchberg with the Evangelical Lutheran 1 City Church "Our Dear Women"
and the Local history museum "old parsonage".
More Attractions:
- Johannes Schilling House, Birthplace of the sculptor Johannes Schilling (including Niederwalddenkmal Rüdesheim) in Rochlitzer Straße 9, next to it the home of the writer Erich Loest, also a museum
- Hydropower plant from 1909 and pumped storage plant, downstream a suspension bridge and the Liebenhainer mill
- private Space Museum
- University of Applied Sciences premises
- Ringethal with the 2 Ringethal village church
and the smallest Silbermann organ as well as the castle ruins Robbery Castle - 3 Neusorge Castle from the 18th century in Zschöppichen: Elsa Brändström, the Angels of Siberia, ran a home for the children of former German prisoners of war in the castle after the First World War. Today threatened with decay.
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activities
- Mittweida outdoor pool, Leipziger Str. 23. Tel.: 49 (0)3727 2985. Open: Opening times: from May to August 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., September 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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trips
The local recreation area around the is located north of Mittweida Kriebstein dam.
Chemnitz is over the under getting there The route described can be reached in just under half an hour via the A 4. The train takes 19 minutes to Chemnitz Hbf. Other destinations in the vicinity are:
- Frankenberg (11 km south) - the "Barkas" was built here in the GDR. After the "turnaround" and the related cessation of production, the vehicle museum in Frankenberg was set up.
- Hainichen (14 km east) - located on the Striegis, a tributary of the Freiberg Mulde. Birth town of the poet and philosopher Christian Fürchtegott Gellert.
- Waldheim (16 km north, via Kriebstein) - worth seeing Art Nouveau town hall directly on the Zschopau. You pass them on the way there 4 Kriebstein Castle, a medieval knight's castle par excellence.
- Rochlitz (18 km northwest, via Erlau) - small town with a castle on the Zwickauer Mulde.
- Wechselburg (19 km to the west, via Königshain-Wiederau) - located upstream from Rochlitz; Wechselburg monastery with basilica, Benedictine monastery complex, baroque castle and monastery park.
literature
- Cycling and hiking map of Mittweida and the surrounding area. Publishing house Dr. Barthel, ISBN 978-3-89591-045-6 . Scale 1: 35,000, € 4.90
Web links
https://www.mittweida.de/ - Official website of Mittweida
