Nossen (; , ) is a town in the
district of Meissen, in
Saxony
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, Germany. It is located 80 km southeast of Leipzig. The town is dominated by a large
Renaissance
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castle. Nossen is best known for its proximity to a motorway junction where the
A14 merges onto the
A4.
Geography
Neighboring towns
Nearest towns are
Roßwein
Roßwein () is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the ...
,
Großschirma
Großschirma is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 7 km northwest of Freiberg. It was formed from the administrative union of the municipality of Großschirma and the town of Siebenlehn, including the ...
,
Reinsberg and
Striegistal in
Mittelsachsen
Mittelsachsen (, ) is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.
History
The district was established by merging the former districts of Döbeln, Freiberg and Mittweida as part of the district reform of August 2008.
Geog ...
districts and
Käbschütztal
Käbschütztal is a municipality in the district of Meißen, in Saxony, Germany.
References
Meissen (district)
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,
Lommatzsch
Lommatzsch (; , ) is a municipality located in the district of Meißen in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.
Geography
Lommatzsch lies amidst the so-called ''Lommatzscher Pflege'', an area of land featuring high quality loessic soil and theref ...
and
Klipphausen
Klipphausen is a municipality in the district of Meißen, in Saxony, Germany.
Schloss Scharfenberg is located in the Pegenau area of Klipphausen.
In today's locality Röhrsdorf, Julius Adolph Stöckhardt was born, who helped to establish agricu ...
in the Meißen district.
History
During World War II, a subcamp of
Flossenbürg concentration camp
Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located in a remote area, in the Fichtel Mountains of Bavaria, adjacent to the town of Flos ...
was located here.
Historical population
From 1995, recorded on 31 December, unless otherwise noted:
[Datenquelle ab 1998: Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen]
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the city
*
Friedrich Funcke (1642–1699), clergyman, cantor and composer
*
Paul Richter
Paul Richter (1 April 1895 – 30 December 1961) was an Austrian film actor. He owed his great popularity in German films of the silent era largely to the directors Joe May and Fritz Lang.
Biography
Richter made his film debut right before W ...
(1859–1944), architect
*
Manfred von Killinger
Manfred Freiherr von Killinger (14 July 1886 – 2 September 1944) was a German naval officer, ''Freikorps'' leader, military writer and Nazi politician. A veteran of World War I and member of the ''Marinebrigade Ehrhardt'' during the German ...
(1886–1944) Nazi politician and diplomat, born on Gut Lindigt
*
Joachim Nitsche (1926–1996), German mathematician
*
Wolfgang Mieder
Wolfgang Mieder (born 17 February 1944 in Nossen) is a retired professor of German and folklore who taught for 50 years at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont. He is a graduate of Olivet College (BA), the University of Michigan (MA ...
(born 1944) professor of
German Language
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and
Folklore
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at the
University of Vermont
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References
External links
Official site
Meissen (district)
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