Gößnitz

Coat of arms

Location of Gößnitz within Altenburger Land district

(2019–25) Wolfgang Scholz^[1]Area

• Total14.04 km² (5.42 sq mi)Elevation

202 m (663 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total3,433 • Density240/km² (630/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

04639

Dialling codes034493Vehicle registrationABGWebsitewww.goessnitz.de

Gößnitz (German pronunciation: [ˈɡœsnɪt͡s] ^ⓘ) is a town in the Altenburger Land district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Pleiße, 12 km south of Altenburg, and 20 km northwest of Zwickau. 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.

Sons and daughters of the city

Hans Lungwitz [de] (1881-1967), physician, philosopher and founder of psychobiology
Joachim Reichmann (1923-1991), surgeon and university lecturer

References

^ Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht, Freistaat Thüringen, accessed 14 July 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thüringen Gebietsstand: 31.12.2022" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. June 2023.