HOHENSTEIN (Hohenstein-Ernstthal), a town of Germany, in the Land of Saxony, on the railway Zwickau-Chemnitz, 12 M. N.E. of the former. Pop. 17,587. Industries include cotton weaving, the manufacture of machines, stockings, gloves and woollen fabrics, cotton printing and dyeing. There are copper and arsenic mines in the neighbourhood. Hohenstein was united to the town of Ernstthal in 1898. Another place of the same name is a town in East Prussia. Pop. (1925) 3,000. This Hohenstein was founded by the Teutonic Order in