The village of Cämmerswalde in the municipality of Neuhausen/Erzgeb is in the south of the Saxon district of

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in eastern

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. The state-recognised

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with its 800-year-old history, lies near

Seiffen The town of Seiffen is located in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, which is in the central south of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. The earliest record of the town dates to 1324 when it was referred to as "Cynsifen". Seiffen nestles in the h ...

in the eastern part of the

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not far from the Czech border. The village is a classic ''

Waldhufendorf The ''Waldhufendorf'' ("forest village"; plural: -''dörfer'') is a form of rural settlement established in areas of forest clearing with the farms arranged in a series along a road or stream, like beads on a chain.Dickinson, Robert E (1964). ''G ...

'', with a length of over five kilometres. Cämmerswalde is divided into Oberdorf, Mitteldorf and Niederdorf (upper, middle and lower village). Since 1994, Cämmerswalde has belonged to the municipality of Neuhausen/Erzgeb, but used to be an independent parish with the hamlets of Deutschgeorgenthal, Haindorf and, from 1924,

Neuwernsdorf Neuwernsdorf is a village in the municipality of Neuhausen/Erzgeb. in the extreme south of the Saxon district of Mittelsachsen, immediately next to the Czech border by Český Jiřetín and the Rauschenbach Dam. Literature * ''Festschrift ...

and Rauschenbach. Caemmerswalde 2009-April-001

References

Literature

* ''Festschrift 750 Jahre Cämmerswalde.'' Reinhard Rodefeld, 1957 * ''Festschrift 800 Jahre Cämmerswalde.'' Festausschuss, Reinhold Hegewald, 2007 * * Max Rennau: ''Zur ältesten Geschichte der Kirche in Cämmerswalde.'' Erzgebirgischer Generalanzeiger, 1930 * ''Historisches Ortsnamenbuch von Sachsen.'' 3 volumes, ed. by

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and Hans Walther, revised by Ernst Eichler, Volkmar Hellfritzsch, Hans Walther and Erika Weber (sources and research into Saxon history 21), Berlin, 2001, Vol. I, p. 135 * ''Beschreibende Darstellung der älteren Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Königreichs Sachsen.'' 41 eds., Eds. 1–15 revised by Richard Steche, Eds. 16–41 revised by Cornelius Gurlitt, Dresden, 1882–1923, Ed. 3, p. 3 *

External links

Official homepage of Neuhausen

Organs in the parish of Freiberg
* Former municipalities in Saxony Spa towns in Germany Neuhausen, Saxony {{Ore-mountains-stub