Kürbitz is a former municipality in the district of
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 ...
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 ...
in
Germany
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located near
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 ...
. On 1 January 1999, the village was merged into the municipality
Weischlitz
Weischlitz is a municipality in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany. It absorbed the former municipalities Kloschwitz and Kürbitz in 1999, Burgstein in 2011, and Reuth, Saxony, Reuth in 2017.Rittergut Kürbitz
The Feudal Estate of Kürbitz, in Vogtland, was a manor of the family of Feilitzsch; only a part of the mansion is extant.
History
Approximately 1300 AD, the Feilitzsch family, named after its ancestral seat near the town of Hof, was one of ...
References
External links
Pictures from Kürbitz''in the archive of Foto Marburg''
Kürbitz''in the Digital Historic Index of Places in Saxony''
* http://www.sr2-treffen.de
Legend from lindworm of Kürbitz
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Former municipalities in Saxony
Weischlitz