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Coswig
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Town in Meißen district, Saxony, Germany
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Coswig is a city and Greater district town located in Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the Elbe river and has a population of 20,899. The town covers an area of 25.88 square kilometers and stands at an elevation of 118 meters above sea level. Its postal code is 01640, and it uses the local dialing code 03523.
Administratively, Coswig has been part of the Margraviate of Meissen, the Electorate of Saxony, and the Meissen District. It is currently twinned with Ravensburg. The town operates in the UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00 time zones and uses the license plate code MEI.
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Place details
- Locality
- Coswig
- Region
- Sachsen
- Country
- Deutschland
- Population
- 22,304
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Saxony
- District
- Meißen
- Mayor 2019 26
- Thomas Schubert
- Total
- 25.88 km (9.99 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 118 m (387 ft)
- Density
- 791.3/km (2,049/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Postal codes
- 01631–01640
- Dialling codes
- 03523
- Vehicle registration
- MEI, GRH, RG, RIE
- Website
- www.coswig.de
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Encyclopedic overview
Coswig ( German pronunciation: [ˈkɔsvɪç] ; Upper Sorbian: Kosowiki) is a town in the district of Meißen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, approximately 9 km southeast of Meißen, and 13 km northwest of Dresden. It is the home of Fachkrankenhaus Coswig, a hospital specializing in thoracic surgery.
The town can be reached from Dresden by Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe's tram route 4, or from both Dresden and Meißen by Dresden S-Bahn line S1 and further regional railway lines at Coswig's railway station.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coswig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.