Falkenstein () is a town in the

Vogtlandkreis The Vogtlandkreis () is a ''Landkreis'' (List of German rural districts, rural district) in the southwest of Saxony, Germany, at the borders of Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Czech Republic. Neighbouring districts are (from south clockwise) Hof (dist ...

district, 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 ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It is situated 4 km southwest of Auerbach, and 17 km east of

Plauen Plauen (; ; ) is a town in Saxony, Germany with a population of around 65,000. It is Saxony's 5th most populated city after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the largest cit ...

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 (1908–1983), perpetrator of the Holocaust, born in the district of Trieb * Wolfgang Männel (1937–2006), economist * Ulrich Eisenfeld (born 1939), painter * Bernd Eisenfeld (1941–2010), historian and GDR opposition leader * Gabriele Eckart (born 1954), writer

References

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