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Oelsnitz (Saxony)




Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
 
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
 
Oelsnitz is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the free state of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weibe Elster, which is 9 kilometers from south of Plauen. The free state of Saxony is a federal state of Germany. It has a land area of 18,413 square kilometers and a population of 4.3 million, the tenth largest in area and sixth largest in population among Germany's sixteen states. Saxony has a long history as a duchy, and eventually as a kingdom.

The Vogtlandkreis is a rural district in the southwest of the free state of Saxony, Germany, at the borders to Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Czech Republic. Its neighboring districts are Hof, Saale Orla, Greiz, Zwickauer Land, and Aue-Schwarzenberg. The urban district of Plauen is located in the center of the district. The Vogtlandkreis is named after the geographic area it covers, the Vogtland. Located in the ore mountains it contains a lot of forests. The main river is the Weibe Elster. Due to its many historic events and places it has been one of the favorite destinations of visitors.

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