Plauen

Plauen, one of the most important manufacturing towns of Saxony, stands in the south-west corner, on the Elster, 78 miles S. of Leipzig by rail. Its chief industries are the manufacture of cotton goods, muslin, cambric, jaconet, and embroidered fabrics, with in a secondary degree cigars, paper, machinery. Pop. (1875) 28,756; (1890) 46,899.