Plauen (WV) | 4,752 | 5.4 | 0.4 | 2 | ±0 |- | bgcolor=#0B6623| | align=left| The III. Path | 3,366 | 3.8 | New | 1 | New |- ! colspan=2| Valid votes ! 30,247 ! 98.2 ! ! ! |- ! colspan=2| Invalid votes ! 556 ! 1.8 ! ! ! |- ! colspan=2| Total ! 30,803 ! 100.0 ! ! 42 ! ±0 |- ! colspan=2| Electorate/voter turnout ! 52,962 ! 58.2 ! 13.8 ! ! |- | colspan=7| Source: Wahlen in Sachsen |} Industry and infrastructure Plauen (Vogtland) Oberer Bahnhof lies on the Leipzig–Hof line. The section of this line through Plauen is part of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line running between Nürnberg, Hof, Plauen, Zwickau, Chemnitz and Dresden. The city had another station, Plauen (Vogtland) Unterer station (now defunct), on the Elster Valley Railway. There is a plan to rename the Oberer (Upper) station into Plauen Hauptbahnhof (Main Station). Vogtlandbahn (Vogtland Railway), a regional train company, operates services from Plauen to Hof, Werdau, Chemnitz, Zwickau, Falkenstein and Adorf within Germany and Cheb in the Czech Republic. At these stations, there are other Vogtlandbahn services to Munich, Regensburg, Marktredwitz, Dresden and Leipzig within Germany and Karlovy Vary and Prague in the Czech Republic. A Vogtlandbahn Express Bus service runs between Plauen and Berlin Schönefeld Airport and Zoological Garden. The Plauen Straßenbahn is a tramway that has 6 lines connecting the centre of city, Plauen-Tunnel stop, to the surrounding areas and the Oberer railway station. Main sights Embroidery Machine Museum Museum Plauener Spitze Galerie e.O. plauen Old City Hall Elster Viaduct – second largest brick bridge in the world Friedensbrücke – largest stone arch bridge in the world Johanniskirche Old Elster Viaduct – oldest bridge in Saxony Malzhaus Education and science Plauen is home to a University of Applied Sciences with about 300 students and a DIPLOMA Fachhochschule. Twin towns – sister cities Plauen is twinned with: Aš, Czech Republic (1962) Steyr, Austria (1970) Hof, Germany (1987) Siegen, Germany (1990) Cegléd, Hungary (2005) Pabianice, Poland (2006) Šiauliai, Lithuania (2010) The urban district of Jößnitz is twinned with Heilsbronn, Germany. Notable people Heinrich von Plauen (1370–1429), Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Christoph Pezel (1539–1604), theologian Johann von Mayr (1716–1759), Prussian general Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (1786–1851), philologist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798–1868), botanist, zoologist and explorer Gustav Hartenstein (1808–1890), philosopher Charles Beyer (1813–1876), locomotive designer and engineer Emil Kautzsch