an important manufacturing town of Saxony, circle of Zwickau, on the Zschopau, 7 miles N.N.E. of Chemnitz. It has extensive cotton and linen factories and bleaching-works. Pop. (1849) 6988. This is also the name of a town in Hesse-Cassel, province of Upper Hesse, on the right bank of the Eder, 34 miles W.S.W. of Cassel, with 3250 inhabitants.