 Several smaller towns and hamlets belong to Zwenkau, being


The rural areas of the historic town Eythra and parts of Bösdorf, both abandoned in favor of lignite deposits in the 1980s, are also administered by the town of Zwenkau and bordered in the west.Prehistoric colonization in the area of Zwenkau was affirmed by archaeological finds dated around 6000 BC.Zwenkau is one of the oldest cities in what is now Saxony.