Penig

Penig
Penig
	Coat of arms
	Location of Penig within Mittelsachsen district
	Penig Penig
	Coordinates: 50°56′1″N 12°42′21″E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Mittelsachsen
Government
• Mayor	Thomas Eulenberger (CDU)
Area
• Total	63.31 km2 (24.44 sq mi)
Elevation	208 m (682 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	8,780
• Density	140/km2 (360/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	09322
Dialling codes	037381
Vehicle registration	FG
Website	www.penig.de

Penig (German: [ˈpeːnɪç] (listen)) is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Zwickauer Mulde, 19 km northwest of Chemnitz. The old and the new castle were owned by the House of Schönburg from 1378 until 1945. Penig housed a concentration camp during World War II.

The Old Castle
The New Castle

People

Friedrich Eduard Bilz

gollark: Do you not also need to poke at `io`?

gollark: Because I'm lazy!

gollark: I have one, but it ends up having to basically run the entire BIOS again to rebuild the environment, and is now quite tightly coupled to potatOS.

gollark: And I think <@111572502722920448> said something about making their own sandbox thingy. They definitely have an old and kind of bad but working one available.

gollark: You can look at the insanely complex partly self-modifying mess known as potatOS for inspiration.

References

"Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen jeweils am Monatsende ausgewählter Berichtsmonate nach Gemeinden" (PDF). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). July 2019.

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[1] "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen jeweils am Monatsende ausgewählter Berichtsmonate nach Gemeinden" (PDF). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). July 2019.