Chemnitz
a town of Saxony, at the base of the Erzgebirge, and at the confluence of the Chemnitz river with three other streams, 51 miles S. S. E. of Leipsic. It is the principal manufacturing town of Saxony-the "Saxon Manchester" its townsfolk call it-its industry consisting in weaving cottons, woolens, and silks, and in printing calicoes, chiefly for German consumption. It supplies the world with cheap hosiery, and makes mixed fabrics of wool, cotton, and jute for the markets of Europe and the United States. It has several extensive machine-factories, producing locomotives and other steam-engines, with machinery for flax and wool spinning, weaving, and mining industry. Created a free imperial city as early as 1125, CHENONCEAUX Chemnitz suffered much during the Thirty Years' War. Pop. about 300,000.