Burgstädt () is a town in the district of

Mittelsachsen Mittelsachsen ("Central Saxony") 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 ...

, in

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is situated 12 km northwest of Chemnitz.

Sons and daughters of the city

* Erich Gleixner (1920-1962), footballer *

Peter Jahr Peter Jahr (born 24 April 1959) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament from Germany. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. Early life and education After Abitur and mili ...

(born 1959), politician (CDU) *

Barbara Köhler Barbara Köhler (11 April 1959 – 8 January 2021) was a German poet and translator. She was born in Burgstädt, East Germany, but was raised in Penig. She studied at the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute in Leipzig in 1985. She was ther ...

(born 1959), lyricist * Rico Lieder (born 1971), athlete *

Gerhard Wahrig Gerhard Wahrig (10 May 1923 in Burgstädt, Saxony, Germany – 2 September 1978 in Wiesbaden Hesse, Germany) was a German linguist and lexicographer. He also worked on semantics and grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural languag ...

(1923-1978), lexicographer

References

Mittelsachsen {{Mittelsachsen-geo-stub