CRIMMITSCHAU

also spelled Krimmitschau city, Saxony Land (state), Germany, on the Pleisse River, just northwest of Zwickau. An industrial community since the 18th century with factories for cloth and knitted goods and spinning and weaving mills, it became a centre of the working-class movement in the 19th century. The strike of the Crimmitschau textile workers from August 1903 to January 1904 had the effect of mobilizing textile workers in all Germany. Textile machinery is manufactured. Pop. (1989 est.) 24,003.