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Mylau
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Mylau () is a town and a former municipality in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany with about 2600 citizens. Since 1 January 2016 it is part of the town Reichenbach im Vogtland. It is situated in the valleys of the river Göltzsch and the Raumbach, a stream flowing from Reichenbach im Vogtland that is locally known as the Soap Stream (German: Seifenbach) because of the textile painting factories that had been built by its banks. The town lies 6 km southeast of Greiz, and 20 km southwest of Zwickau. Mylau has the smallest area of any town ("Stadt") in what

Key facts

German location.type
Stadtteil
German location.Town
Reichenbach im Vogtland
German location.image_coa
Wappen_Mylau.svg
German location.state
Sachsen
German location.district
Vogtlandkreis
German location.elevation
305
German location.area
4.73
German location.population
2585
German location.Stand
2014-12-31
German location.postal_code
08499
German location.area_code
03765
German location.licence
V
German location.website
www.mylau.de

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Country
Germany
Located in
Saxony
Population
2585
Area
4.73
Elevation
319
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Official website
www.mylau.de
Image
Mylau panorama (aka).jpg
Dialing code
03765
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twinned administrative body
Montecarlo
Commons category
Mylau
postal code
08499
hashtag
Mylau
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Mylau () is a town and a former municipality in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany with about 2600 citizens. Since 1 January 2016 it is part of the town Reichenbach im Vogtland. It is situated in the valleys of the river Göltzsch and the Raumbach, a stream flowing from Reichenbach im Vogtland that is locally known as the Soap Stream (German: Seifenbach) because of the textile painting factories that had been built by its banks. The town lies 6 km southeast of Greiz, and 20 km southwest of Zwickau. Mylau has the smallest area of any town ("Stadt") in what was formerly East Germany, although there are 10 towns in what was formerly West Germany that are even smaller in area.

thumb|center|400px|Panorama of Mylau

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mylau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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