The environment is characterized by forest areas, river meadows and the hilly landscape of the Erzgebirge foothills.

The German settlement of the area that later became Waldenburg began with the founding of the monastery in Remse in 1143.

Friedrich XI of Schönburg-Waldenburg awarded the Waldenburg potters their first letter of guild in 1388.

Salt-glazed Waldenburg stoneware became very famous throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages.

Neighborhood municipalities are Callenberg, the city of Glauchau and Limbach-Oberfrohna, Oberwiera and Remse as well as Göpfersdorf, Jückelberg and Ziegelheim.