Neuhausen, Saxony

Neuhausen

Coat of arms

Neuhausen

Location of Neuhausen within Mittelsachsen district

Coordinates: 50°40′10″N 13°28′0″E / 50.66944°N 13.46667°ECoordinates: 50°40′10″N 13°28′0″E / 50.66944°N 13.46667°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Peter Haustein

Area

• Total

48.03 km² (18.54 sq mi)

Population (2014-12-31)^[1]

• Total

2,730

• Density

57/km² (150/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

09544

037361, 037327

Website

Neuhausen is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Neuhausen hosts the first nutcracker museum in Europe, which houses more than 5,000 examples, the largest collection of nutcrackers in the world and is also known as a location for winter sports.

Culture and sights

Closed railway station at the end of the Flöha Valley Railway

Museums

Europe's first nutcracker museum

World renown is the first and largest nutcracker museum in Europe with around 5,000 exhibits from 30 countries (as at April 2009).

Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains

Purschenstein Castle, February 2010

The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains (Glashüttenmuseum des Erzgebirges) is located in the old socage vault of Purschenstein Castle and includes a replica glassworks from the time of Georgius Agricola, a workshop and other documents and tools associated with Ore Mountain glassmaking as well as the history of Neuhausen and Purschenstein.

References

↑ "Aktuelle Einwohnerzahlen nach Gemeinden 2014] (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)" (PDF). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). 7 September 2015.

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Towns and municipalities in Mittelsachsen district

Altmittweida Augustusburg Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf Brand-Erbisdorf Burgstädt Claußnitz Döbeln Dorfchemnitz Eppendorf Erlau Flöha Frankenberg Frauenstein Freiberg Geringswalde Großhartmannsdorf Großschirma Großweitzschen Hainichen Halsbrücke Hartha Hartmannsdorf Königsfeld Königshain-Wiederau Kriebstein Leisnig Leubsdorf Lichtenau Lichtenberg Lunzenau Mittweida Mochau Mühlau Mulda Neuhausen Niederwiesa Oberschöna Oederan Ostrau Penig Rechenberg-Bienenmühle Reinsberg Rochlitz Rossau Roßwein Sayda Seelitz Striegistal Taura Waldheim Wechselburg Weißenborn Zettlitz Zschaitz-Ottewig

Municipality of Neuhausen, Saxony (Neuhausen/Erzgeb.)

Cämmerswalde Deutschgeorgenthal Dittersbach Frauenbach Heidelbach Neuhausen Neuwernsdorf Rauschenbach

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