Falkenstein is a town in the

Vogtlandkreis The Vogtlandkreis () is a ''Landkreis'' (rural district) in the southwest of Saxony, Germany, at the borders to Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Czech Republic. Neighboring districts are (from south clockwise) Hof, Saale-Orla, Greiz, Zwickau and Erzg ...

district, 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 4 km southwest of Auerbach, and 17 km east of

Plauen Plauen (; Czech: ''Plavno'') is, with around 65,000 inhabitants, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the largest city in the S ...

Population Development

Historical Population (ab 31 December 1960): : Datasource: Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen

Sons and daughters of the city

* Otto Lindner (1893–1983), writer * Gottfried Weimann (1907–1990), javelin thrower *

Helmut Rauca Helmut Rauca (3 November 1908 – 29 October 1983) was a Holocaust perpetrator instrumental in the murder of more than 10,000 Jews from the Kaunas Ghetto, Lithuania, during World War II. He was a member of ''Einsatzgruppe A'' in the rank of ''Haup ...

(1908–1983), perpetrator of the Holocaust, born in the district of Trieb * Wolfgang Männel (1937–2006), economist * Ulrich Eisenfeld (born 1939), painter *

Bernd Eisenfeld Bernd Eisenfeld (9 January 1941 – 12 June 2010), also known by the pseudonym Fred Werner, was an opponent of the East German dictatorship who became a writer and an historian. Early years Bernd Eisenfeld and his twin brother Peter were born i ...

(1941–2010), historian and GDR opposition leader * Gabriele Eckart (born 1954), writer

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