DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Sachsen	Saxony
Landkreis: Vogtlandkreis

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Treuen is situated at an elevation of 424 m in the east of the Vogtland region, about 22 km southwest of Zwickau and about 13 km northeast of the district town Plauen. The municipality has a population of about 7,700 (2022).

The forest vilage of Treuen was first mention in a dcument dating from 1214, and received its town charter in 1390. The castle, mentioned in documents as Drewen in the 11th century, was built by the bailiffs of Plauen on a rocky outcrop in the course of the expansion of their country. When the rule of Plauen was partitioned into Plauen Elder line and Plauen-Reuss, Treuen came to the Reuss line in 1306. The castle was destroyed even before the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Until 1856, Treuen belonged to the Electoral Saxon or later Royal Saxon Office of Plauen, which controlled the town until 1856. In 1856 the city became the seat of the court office of Treuen. In 1875 it was incorporated into the Auerbach district. During the Wilhelminian period, Treuen experienced its heyday when the number of companies and shops increased sharply as a result of industrialization. In 1865, Treuen received a train station on the line from Herlasgrün to Oelsnitz. As a result of the second district reform in the German Democratic Republic, Treuen came in 1952 to the Auerbach district (Kreis) within the Chemnitz larger district (Bezirk) (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953), which was continued in 1990 as the Saxon district of Auerbach and merged into the Vogtland district in 1996.

The town church Sankt Bartholomäi [left, no. 4406: top picture, background] is the oldest edifice of the town. The lower, Romanesque parts of the church tower date from the 12th century. The church was enlarged by a nave in 1514. However, most parts of the church were destroyed by a large fire in 1806. The church was the rebuilt in Classicist style in 1809.

The lower picture on glass. no. 4406 shows a view of the Göltzsch valley railway bridge, located in nearby Netzschkau (see there).

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treuen; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kulturdenkmale_in_Treuen]