2-576: Sankt Egidien (Saint Egidien) is a municipality in the district of Zwickau in Saxony in Germany . The town was named after Saint Giles , allegedly for missionary work done by him or his disciples to the Goths . This Zwickau location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zwickau (district) Zwickau ( German : Landkreis Zwickau ) is a district ( Kreis ) in
4-643: The Free State of Saxony , Germany . The district was established by merging the former districts Zwickauer Land , Chemnitzer Land and the urban district Zwickau as part of the district reform of August 2008. The district is located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains , west of Chemnitz . The main rivers of the district are the Zwickauer Mulde and the Pleiรe . It borders (from
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