CHEMNITZ, or Schemnitz, a circle in the province of Hither Danube, in Hungary. It extends round the city of the same name, which is one of the chief mining districts in the Austrian dominions. The city, with its suburbs, which are very extensive, contains 1692 houses, and 20,240 inhabitants, of whom more than 8000 are employed directly or indirectly in the mines. There are eighteen mines in the circle, which yield gold, silver, copper, iron, arsenic, and saltpetre, to the amount of two hundred thousand pounds. The city is elevated 2150 feet above the level of the sea, in a rocky soil, from which the river Chemnitz rises. It contains four Catholic churches and one Lutheran, an institution for mineralogy, and two gymnasiums for Catholics and Lutherans, with six professors and a hundred and forty students. Long. 18. 54. E. Lat. 48. 47. 45. N.