Gößnitz () is a town in the

Altenburger Land Altenburger Land is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the district of Greiz, the Burgenlandkreis (Saxony-Anhalt), and the districts Leipzig, Mittelsachsen and Zwickau in Saxony. The district is a mem ...

district, in

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. It is situated on the river Pleiße, 12 km south of Altenburg, and 20 km northwest of

Zwickau Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ...

. Gößnitz received its town charter in 1718. It is known for the railroad junction of the Leipzig-Hof railway connection and the Central-Germany connection (Dresden - Chemnitz - Gößnitz - Gera - Erfurt) and its station prides itself having Europe's longest platform, as well as the
Gößnitz Open-Air
'. The town's greatest prosperity was at the time of industrialization; Hence Viktor Grimm's representative malt factory from 1889 still characterizes the cityscape. GößnitzRaths

Sons and daughters of the city

* (1881-1967), physician, philosopher and founder of psychobiology * Joachim Reichmann (1923-1991), surgeon and university lecturer

References

Altenburger Land Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg {{Altenburger-geo-stub