museum
August Horch Museum
Museum in the birthplace of Audi tracing Saxon automobile history from Horch and DKW through Trabant and modern Volkswagen.
1 km · about 5 min drive
Saxony, Germany · Europe
Zwickau is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Hartmannsdorf, 50km from Schleizer Dreieck.
Zwickau is a town located in Saxony, Germany. With a population of 98,796, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Zwickau sits in Germany, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Berlin time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Zwickau to your route.
Zwickau (German pronunciation: [ˈtsvɪkaʊ] ) is the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, with around 88,000 inhabitants.
The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: Zwickauer Mulde; progression:
Mulde→
Elbe→ North Sea), and lies in a string ofRead more
cities sitting in the densely populated foreland of the Elster and Ore Mountains stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. Zwickau is the seat of the Zwickau District, the most densely populated district in the new states of Germany.
Zwickau is the seat of the West Saxon University of Zwickau (German: Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau) with campuses in Zwickau, Markneukirchen, Reichenbach im Vogtland and Schneeberg (Erzgebirge). The city is the birthplace of composer Robert Schumann.
Zwickau has historically been one of the centres of the German automotive industry. It is the cradle of Audi and its forerunner Horch. Horchwerke AG Zwickau was founded there in 1904 and was renamed to Audiwerke Zwickau AG in 1909. Zwickau was also the seat of VEB Sachsenring (now Sachsenring GmbH), which produced East Germany's most popular car, the Trabant, in Zwickau. Since 1990, there has been a large Volkswagen plant in Zwickau-Mosel.
The 167-kilometre-long (104-mile) Zwickau Mulde River, originating in Schöneck/Vogtl. in the Western Ore Mountains, traverses the city in a south-to-north direction. It enters Zwickau between Zwickau-Cainsdorf and Zwickau-Bockwa, and leaves at Zwickau-Schlunzig near the Volkswagen plant, and is spanned by 17 bridges within the city. The Silver Road, Saxony's longest tourist route, connects Dresden with Zwickau.
Zwickau can be reached by car via the nearby Autobahns A4 and A72, the main railway station (Zwickau Hauptbahnhof), a public airfield which serves light aircraft, and by bike along the Zwickau Mulde River on the so-called Mulderadweg.
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Zwickau is located in Saxony, Germany, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7272 latitude, 12.4884 longitude.
Zwickau has a population of approximately 98,796 people, making it a town in Germany.
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ADAC roadside assistance: +49 89 22 22 22. No general speed limit on some autobahn sections but advisory 130 km/h.
Full driving guide for Germany3 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Museum in the birthplace of Audi tracing Saxon automobile history from Horch and DKW through Trabant and modern Volkswagen.
1 km · about 5 min drive
racetrack
A uniquely anti-clockwise circuit in Saxony with dramatic elevation changes, famous as a left-turn-dominant MotoGP venue.
16 km · about 30 min drive
historic highway
Germany's oldest road racing circuit, in use since 1923, a triangle of Thuringian public roads still raced on today. The public sections make an atmospheric drive with the racing surface underfoot.
50 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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