page_title: Johanngeorgenstadt
section_title: Public institutions
hierarchical_section_title: Johanngeorgenstadt / Economy and infrastructure / Public institutions
caption_attribution_description: Jugendherberge "Paul Mothes" in 08349 Johanngeorgenstadt, Hospitalstraße 5
context_page_description: Johanngeorgenstadt is a mining town in Saxony’s Ore Mountains, 17 km south of Aue, and 27 km northwest of Karlovy Vary. It lies in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, on the border with the Czech Republic, is a state-recognized health resort, and calls itself Stadt des Schwibbogens. Its population decline since the 1950s has been extremely severe falling from 45,000 residents in 1953 to only about one tenth of that now.
context_section_description: The Rathaus (Town Hall) is housed in a former barracks building on Eibenstocker Straße in the middle of town. The old town hall lay right on the marketplace, but it was destroyed in the great fire of 1867, and its successor was torn down in 1955.
  Right near the town administration is the Haus der Jugend (House of Youth) built in 2004.
  The Kulturhaus Karl Marx built in the New Town (Neustadt) in 1956 has been shut down for many years.
  Since 1927, at Hospitalstraße 5, there has been a youth hostel with 60 beds at its disposal. In 1986, the title “Most Beautiful Youth Hostel” (Schönste Jugendherberge) was bestowed upon it. Until 1990, the hostel bore the name Ernst Schneller, after a prewar Communist member of the Reichstag who died at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
  The gymnasium built in 1930 and 1931 on Eibenstocker Straße was opened once again in late October 2004 as the Franz Mehring Sport and Meeting Place after renovation and expansion.
caption: Youth hostel on Hospitalstraße
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