Lengenfeld

For the town in Lower Austria, see Lengenfeld, Austria.

Lengenfeld
Town
Church of Saint Aegidius
Coat of arms
Location of Lengenfeld within Vogtlandkreis district
Lengenfeld Show map of Germany Lengenfeld Show map of Saxony
Coordinates: 50°34′N 12°22′E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Vogtlandkreis
Subdivisions	9
Government
• Mayor (2018–25)	Volker Bachmann[1]
Area
• Total	46.98 km^2 (18.14 sq mi)
Elevation	403 m (1,322 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	7,013
• Density	150/km^2 (390/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	08485
Dialling codes	037606
Vehicle registration	V, AE, OVL, PL, RC
Website	www.stadt-lengenfeld.de

Lengenfeld is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany. The town is situated 19 km southwest of Zwickau, and 18 km northeast of Plauen.

History

Memorial to the victims of the local subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp

During World War II, Germany operated a forced labour subcamp of the Nazi prison in the town in Zwickau,[3] and a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp.[4] About 1,000 prisoners, half of whom were deported from German-occupied Poland, a quarter from the Soviet Union, and larger groups among the remainder comprising French, Italian, Czech, and Hungarian Jews, were imprisoned as forced labour in the latter.[5] 246 prisoners died in the subcamp, and were mostly cremated in nearby Reichenbach im Vogtland, and the remaining were evacuated in a death march, during which many also died.[5]

References

1. Bürgermeisterwahlen 2018, Freistaat Sachsen, accessed 10 July 2021.
2. "Einwohnerzahlen nach Gemeinden als Excel-Arbeitsmappe" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2024.
3. "Außenkommando des Zuchthauses und der Untersuchungshaftanstalt Zwickau in Lengenfeld bei den Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerken". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2021.
4. Christine O'Keefe. Concentration Camps
5. "Lengenfeld Subcamp". KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg. Retrieved 3 April 2021.