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| Oelsnitz / Vogtl. | ||
| federal state | Saxony | |
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| Residents | 10.285 (2019) | |
| height | 397 m | |
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The small town Oelsnitz (Vogtland) lies in a basin of the upper White Elster, 12 km south of Plauen.
getting there
By plane
By train and bus
Oelsnitz is on the Plauen ob. Bf. - Adorf (Vogtl.) - Bad Brambach - Cheb railway line. The Plauen - Oelsnitz - Adorf branch is driven every hour (Monday to Friday) and every two hours (Saturdays and Sundays / public holidays). The part from Adorf - Bad Brambach is daily every two hours by the private Vogtland Railway drive with four pairs of trains from Bad Brambach to Cheb be tied through in the Czech Republic. From and to Elsterberg (Vogtland) individual trains run Monday to Friday on the RB4 Elsterberg - Adorf line through Oelsnitz. (As of June 2017) Oelsnitz station has two through tracks with two platforms. The station also has some active freight tracks. For rail fans, this route offers not only a very beautiful landscape and dams view, but also old signal boxes along the route. Two of them are in Oelsnitz. The station building is currently being renovated. In front of the train station you will find the bus station with 10 platforms, from there you can get Monday - Friday next to the city lines to Klingenthal, Schöneck, Falkenstein, Plauen, Bad Elster and Hof in Bavaria. On weekends there are buses (Plauen - Bad Elster ) not via the bus station but only via the market. The bus and train stations are approx. 1 km from the city center. (can only be reached via Bahnhofstrasse and old Bahnhofstrasse)
In the street
Oelsnitz is from the direction of Chemnitz and from southern Germany via the autobahn 
reachable where you are at the descent Plauen-South exits and onto the federal road 
changes.
mobility
Dynamic cardsOelsnitz has been given a bypass, which relieved inner-city individual traffic.
Tourist Attractions
In Oelsnitz, the two late Gothic towers in particular fall 1 St. Jakobikirche
into the field of vision. The baptismal font (1833) is by Ernst Rietschel, who also created the Goethe and Schiller memorial in Weimar. The second striking building is that town hall on the south side of the market square.
As one of the few buildings that survived Zoephelsche House the great city fire of 1859. The building houses the city library and the tourist information office.
In the northeast of the city is that Voigtsberg Castle, which dates from the 13th century and has been an important official seat in Saxony since the 14th century. From 1874 to 1924 it served as a women's prison. The castle has been undergoing extensive renovation work since 2002, so that the local carpet and local history museum had to be closed. The work should be finished in 2008, which means that the museum can move in here again.
activities
- Magpie Garden, At the Elster 15. Tel.: 49 (0)37421 22619, Fax: (0)37421 72998, Email: [email protected]. Open: April 30th to September 23rd.Price: day entry adults € 3, children € 1.50.. The outdoor pool in Oelsnitz was reopened in 2006 after extensive renovation work.
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trips
- Pirk (12 km to the west) - small place at the dam of the same name, which dams the White Elster.
- Plauen (12 km north, B 92) - the next largest city; City of peaks.
- Weischlitz (13 km northwest, in Plauen-South onto the A 72, at the exit Pirk down again) - also located in the valley of the White Elster; Starting point of the Elstertalbahn Gera.
- Adorf (14 km south, B 92) - on the southern edge of the city you can visit the miniature exhibition "Klein-Vogtland" and the adjoining leisure pool.
- Schöneck (15 km east) - winter sports resort at over 700 m altitude; extensive network of cross-country trails.
- Mulhouse (16 km south, B 92 beyond Adorf) - located in the valley of the Rauner Bach on the B 92; Island pond in the floodplain of the stream.
- Bad Elster (18 km south, B 92 with junction behind Adorf) - health resort im Elster Mountains.
