Chemnitz is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. Chemnitz is the third-largest city in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect area after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the fifth largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Halle. The city is part of the Central German Metropolitan Region, and lies in the middle of a string of cities sitting in the densely populated northern foreland of the Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast.
Image: Altes und Neues Rathaus am Chemnitzer Marktplatz 2015
Image: Schloßkirche am Schloßteich
Image: Burg Rabenstein (Chemnitz). IMG 2267WI
Image: Karl Marx Monument in Chemnitz (Karl Marx Stadt)
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of 18,413 square kilometres (7,109 sq mi), and the sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants.
Henry the Lion (with his wife Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony) being crowned as the Duke of Saxony
Saxony before the Congress of Vienna compared to present day Saxony
Leipzig
Dresden
