Neuhausen, Saxony

Neuhausen/Erzgeb.
Municipality
Neuhausen/Erzgeb.
Coat of arms
Location of Neuhausen/Erzgeb. within Mittelsachsen district
Neuhausen/Erzgeb. Neuhausen/Erzgeb.
Coordinates: 50°40′10″N 13°28′0″E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Mittelsachsen
Government
• Mayor (2021–28)	Andreas Drescher
Area
• Total	48.03 km2 (18.54 sq mi)
Elevation	661 m (2,169 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	2,530
• Density	53/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	09544
Dialling codes	037361, 037327
Vehicle registration	FG
Website	www.neuhausen.de

Neuhausen/Erzgeb. (lit. Neuhausen/Ore Mountains) is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It consists of Neuhausen proper and the Ortsteile (divisions) Dittersbach, Frauenbach, Heidelbach, Cämmerswalde, Rauschenbach, Neuwernsdorf and Deutschgeorgenthal. Neuhausen hosts the first nutcracker museum in Europe, which houses more than 5,000 examples, the largest collection of nutcrackers in the world and is also known as a location for winter sports.

Culture and sights

Neuhausen railway station at the end of the Pockau-Lengefeld–Neuhausen railway, which is not closed but with irregular service only

Museums

Europe's first nutcracker museum

World renown is the first and largest nutcracker museum in Europe with around 5,000 exhibits from 30 countries (as at April 2009).

Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains

Purschenstein Castle, February 2010

The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains (Glashüttenmuseum des Erzgebirges) is located in the old socage vault of Purschenstein Castle and includes a replica glassworks from the time of Georgius Agricola, a workshop and other documents and tools associated with Ore Mountain glassmaking as well as the history of Neuhausen and Purschenstein.