FRANKENBERG, an important manufacturing town of Saxony, circle of Zwickau, is situated on the Zschopau, 7 miles N.E. of Chemnitz. The principal buildings are the great church, restored in 1874–5, and the new town-house. Frankenberg has extensive woollen, cotton, and silk manufactures, and also dye-works and cigar factories. Its educational establishments include a city school, a real school, and a technical school for engineering, in connexion with which there is a chemical laboratory. Population in 1875, 10,462.