Striegistal is a municipality in the district of

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 ...

, in

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

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. In 1994, the unification of the former municipalities of Berbersdorf, Goßberg, Mobendorf and Pappendorf as part of the regional administrative reform, created the municipality of Striegistal. In 2008 it absorbed the former municipality Tiefenbach. It received its name from the two rivers that flow through the community, the Little Striegis and the Big

Striegis The Striegis () is a river of Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Freiberger Mulde, which it joins in Niederstriegis. See also *List of rivers of Saxony A list of rivers of Saxony, Germany: A * Alte Luppe B * Bahra * Bahre * Bat ...

Sons and daughters of the community

* David Schirmer (1623-1686), lyricist of the baroque period. * Wolfgang Schindler (1929-1991), classical archaeologist * Martin Kröger (1894-1980), chemist and professor at the University of Leipzig

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