Kaolinite pit in a kaolinised quartz porphyry complex.

Located near Kemmlitz, 4 km WSW of Mügeln and around 15 km NW of Döbeln.

The village is located west of the Mügeln city centre on the eponymous Kemmlitzbach, a tributary of the Elbe tributary Döllnitz. Directly southeast of the town is the remaining lake from the kaolin opencast mine, and further south is the Silbersee, through which the Kemmlitz flows.

Surrounding towns are Ablaß and Querbitzsch in the west, Pommlitz in the northwest, Glossen in the north, Poppitz and Nebitzschen in the northeast, Paschkowitz in the east, Baderitz, Lichteneichen and Sornzig in the southeast and beyond the city limits the Leisniger districts of Groß- and Kleinpelsen in the south as well as Börtewitz and Kroptewitz in the southwest.

Since 1903, Kemmlitz has had a train station on the Nebitzschen–Kroptewitz narrow-gauge railway. Travel only existed there between 1945 and 1964; freight traffic was finally given up in 2001. Today the route is used exclusively for tourism, for which a new stop was built in the town centre in 1995.

The village was mentioned twice in January 1276. Margrave Heinrich the Illustrious confirmed the purchase of the village of Kemenicz to Provost John of the Sornzig nunnery in a document issued in Großenhain. In the second document, the abbess and the convent of the monastery confirmed that Provost Johannes bought the village of Keminicz with his money. Other documented mentions of names include Kemnicz (1341), Kempnitz (1347), Kempnicz (1466) and Kemlitz (1551). The Slavic place name can probably be traced back to the Kemmlitzbach, whose name can be interpreted as Steinbach. Kemmlitz was dominated by agriculture for centuries. It belonged to the Sornzig monastery office, and the monastery also exercised manorial authority.

The landowner Riedel mined raw kaolin from July 1883, this marked the beginning of kaolin mining in Kemmlitz, which significantly changed the townscape of Kemmlitz. This is also reflected in the population figures; from 1871 to 1925 the population doubled from 104 to 209 inhabitants. The kaolin was initially transported to Oschatz train station by horse-drawn cart until the Nebitzschen–Kroptewitz narrow-gauge railway opened in 1903. After the Second World War, the various mining companies were expropriated and merged in 1951 to form the newly founded VEB Kemmlitzer Kaolinwerke. Civil engineering was stopped in the mid-1970s. After the fall of the Wall, the Amberger Kaolinwerke Eduard Kick took over the Kemmlitzer Kaolinwerke.

Kemmlitz is the type locality of the mineral kemmlitzite, which was identified in 1969 and named after the place where it was found.

On January 20, 1993, the communities of Glossen and Kemmlitz merged with Ablaß, this community in turn merged with Sornzig on January 1, 1994 to establish Sornzig-Ablaß. On January 1, 2011, Sornzig-Ablaß was incorporated into Mügeln.

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Wikipedia:	https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemmlitz_(Nordsachsen)
Wikidata ID:	Q16216321

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