Altenburg is a city in
Thuringia,
Germany, located south of
Leipzig, west of
Dresden and east of
Erfurt. It is the capital of the
Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region between
Gera,
Zwickau and
Chemnitz with more than 1 million inhabitants, while the city itself has a population of 33,000.