Chemnitz, a manufacturing town in Saxony, called the “Saxon Manchester,” at the foot of the Erzgebirge, in a rich mineral district; manufactures cottons, woollens, silks, machinery, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 160,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Chemistry * Chemnitz, Martin