Crimmitschau is a town in the district of Zwickau in Saxony, Germany, on the river Pleiße in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, with 18,272 residents at the end of 2024. It was established between about 1170 and 1200 during German eastward expansion, first documented in 1212, and granted town privileges in 1414. The town was connected to the rail network in 1844 and became a major textile center by the early 1900s known as the City of 100 Chimneys, and from August 1903 to January 1904 it was the site of one of the largest and longest strikes in the German Empire.
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Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Crimmitschau (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 17,820 (2025)
2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Crimmitschau coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevationQuote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 240.0 ]
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.75, 12.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.75, 12.25
50.75 12.25 Cfb
4. GeoNames: Crimmitschau - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2939747, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2939747, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
50.81644 12.39045 P PPL DE 13 00 14524 14524030 18272 236 Europe/Berlin
Crimmitschau (Wikipedia)
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph names Germany; continent follows from the atlas record for Germany
pronunciation: [ˈkʁɪmɪtʃaʊ] ) is a town in the district of Zwickau in Saxony, Germany
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