The landscape along the Zwickau Mulde is incomparably attractive due to its variety of natural beauties.

Embedded into the basin of the Erzgebirge the town Glauchau is located at the right bank of the Mulde. In former times surrounded by standing water today seven steeply sloping hill ridges protrude, where during the course of time the town centre has been developed. For this reason the people from Glauchau jocularly compare themselves with Rome, which was built on seven hills. In the industrial town in the countryside the two castles Hinterglauchau (1460/70) and Forderglauchau (1728/30), which are only separated by a rampart ditch, are worth seeing. They represent a special construction with respect to history and architecture.

From 1728 to 1730 the famous organ builder Gottfried Silbermann stayed in Glauchau. For the town parish church St. Georg he probably created the only Silbermann organ in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde.

After Glauchau the river reaches the Saxon hilly land and builds one of the most beautiful valleys in Saxony in complete arrangement with the landscape. Majestically castles climb up steep banks and look down from the mountain on the silver-shining stream of the Mulde. One of it is the castle of the princes of Schönburg-Waldenburg. It was built in the English neo-gothic Tudor-style. Additionally the pottery town Waldenburg accommodates a museum with internationally significant natural-scientific collections like the cabinet of natural products. A “must” for the guests is the Grünfelder Park, cultivated in English style in 1780. The cloud castle with its ornate cast iron figures in the park is also very impressing. The Zwickau Mulde takes its course through towns and villages as well as an attractive nature, which again and again presents itself differently.

Town council – cultural office/ town information
Rathausplatz 1
09212 Limbach-Oberfrohna
E-mail: stadtinformation@limbach-oberfrohna.de
phone: +49 (0)37 22 / 7 81 78, fax: 7 83 03

Limbach-Oberfrohna consists of the parts of town Limbach, Oberfrohna, Rußdorf, Kändler, Pleißa, Bräunsdorf and Wolkenburg-Kaufungen. It is located between Zwickau and Chemnitz, embedded into the attractive landscape of the foothills of the Erzgebirge and the sweep of the Zwickau Mulde. Highest elevation approximately 457 m, number of inhabitants about 27,000, traffic connection: A 4 Dresden – Erfurt, exit Chemnitz North, exit 67 Limbach-Oberfrohna, exit 66 Wüstenbrand/ Limbach-Oberfrohna, A 72 Chemnitz – Hof, exit Chemnitz South, B 95: Chemnitz – Leipzig exit Hartmannsdorf, bus connection, inner-city bus routes.

Worth seeing: former manor – today town hall, local front room “Fronfeste” and teaching path about the town (evidences for the industrial history of the town), old market, newly redeveloped town centre, churches in all parts of the town, Castle Wolkenburg with park, historical sawmill and mill for grinding grain, farmer museum, Wolkenburg mining area

Offer: town park with more than 100-year old park facility, ponds, rare plants and copses, animal preserve – the only one of the administrative district of the Chemnitz land with more than 300 animals and 89 species, nature reserve “Limbach ponds” – unique marshland with teaching path about the nature, outdoor swimming pool “Großer Teich” and Sonnenbad, leisure and family swimming pool Limbo mar, municipal hall, huge sports hall, cinema, municipal library, children’s playgrounds, well-developed hiking routes

Events: attractive events in the municipal hall, concerts in the churches of our town and Castle Wolkenburg, town park festival, market run of Limbach, guided hiking tours, farmer markets and Christmas fair

Glauchau information
Markt 1 – Ratshof
08371 Glauchau
phone/ fax +49 (0)37 63 / 25 55

Economic location in the green area, 26,200 inhabitants, accessible via the BAB A 4, road B 175, rail junction, local traffic connections to Zwickau, Chemnitz, Gera

Worth seeing: Castle Forder- and Hinterglauchau with museum and art collection, library, gallery “art gluchowe” concert hall and music school, historical town centre with town church St. Georgen (Silbermann organ), historical town hall and historical market, exclusive residential area with many mansions, post office, Bismarck tower

Offer: town theatre, summer swimming pool, leisure paradise for children, local holiday area storage basin, numerous parks, about 60 km marked hiking routes, animal preserve, Sachsenland Hall

Events: historical castle spectacle, international open-air concerts in the open-air theatre in the Gründel Park, classic open-air concerts in the Castle Forderglauchau, town festival, historical Christmas fair

Tourist office Muldental – Waldenburg e.V.
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
08396 Waldenburg
phone: +49 (0)3 76 08 / 2 10 00, fax: 2 10 06

Pottery town, 4,700 inhabitants, accessible via the B 175, B 180, motorway A 4, bus connection

Worth seeing: historical town hall, five traditional potteries, Fürstlich Schönburgisches teaching seminar from 1844, medieval town centre, castle, castle park, late Gothic town church St. Bartholomäus, natural product gallery, Grünfelder Park (landscape park in English style)

Offer: daily trips, weekend trips, bike hire, carriage trips, playing skittles, circular sightseeing flights and flying lessons can be arranged, pottery courses, sauna, outdoor swimming pool, open-air cinema, guided town, park and museum tours, organized hiking tours

Events: concerts in the Castle Waldenburg, cultural events in the event centre church Franken, market and street festival during the summer months, pottery market, public guided tours through the castle, Christmas fair

Town council FB marketing + event service
Markt 3
08393 Meerane
phone: +49 (0)37 64 / 5 42 88, fax: 20 27

West Saxon industrial town with parks at the foot of the Erzgebirge, 19,000 inhabitants, accessible via the A 4 and the B 83, rail connection, bus connection

Worth seeing: Renaissance town hall, neo baroque post office building, Church St. Martin, Steep Wall, Wilhelm-Wunderlich-Park, Höhler in the Burgberg, Wettiner Square, Gornzig Valley, regionally typical half-timbering buildings in the rural surroundings, windmill in Tettau, Silbermann organ Friedens Church Ponitz

Offer: municipal hall, museum of local history, gallery ART-IN, town library, leisure centre Annaparkhütte, youth club “Beverly Hills”, youth café, fitness and sauna, bowling and playing skittles, tennis, hiking and cycling, horse riding and Kremser trips, gondola pond

Events: festival in the Wunderlich-Park, town and association festivals, carnival festivals and large parade with Alemannic guild of carnival jesters and Gugge, concerts, cabaret, rock nights, international cycle races over the Steep Wall, vintage car rally, tree planting in the Hochzeitswald, Christmas fair