Wechselburg
Sign in to saveWechselburg () is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is well known for its twelfth century Benedictine monastery, the Wechselburg Priory.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_photo
- Romanische Basilika 13. Jh. Wechselburg.JPG
- German location.image_caption
- Basilica of the Holy Cross
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen_wechselburg.png
- German location.image_plan
- Wechselburg in FG.png
- German location.state
- Sachsen
- German location.district
- Mittelsachsen
- German location.elevation
- 185
- German location.area
- 25.66
- German location.postal_code
- 09306
- German location.area_code
- 037384
- German location.licence
- FG
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14522580
- German location.divisions
- 13
- German location.website
- www.wechselburg.de
- German location.mayor
- Daniel Bergert
- German location.leader_term
- 2022–29
- German location.party
- CDU
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Mittelsachsen
- Population
- 1743
- Area
- 25.66
- Elevation
- 185
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Zwickau Mulde
- Shares border with
- Lunzenau
- Official website
- www.wechselburg.de
- Image
- Klosterkirche.gif
- Dialing code
- 037384
- Licence plate code
- FG
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- Commons category
- Wechselburg
- postal code
- 09306
- hashtag
- Wechselburg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Personalities
- Sons and daughters of the community
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Wechselburg () is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is well known for its twelfth century Benedictine monastery, the Wechselburg Priory.
The lordship and the castle were owned by the House of Schönburg from 1546 until 1945.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wechselburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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