{{for|the village in Lower Silesia|Gościęcice}} {{Infobox German location |type = Ortsteil |Municipality = Rosenbach |image_photo = Postamt Mehltheuer.jpg |image_caption = Post office in Mehltheuer |image_coa = |coordinates = {{coord|50|32|40|N|12|2|20|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |state = Sachsen |district = Vogtlandkreis |elevation = 512 |area = 22.09 |population = 1478 |Stand = 2009-12-31 |postal_code = 08539 |area_code = 037431 |licence = V |website = [http://www.mehltheuer.de/ www.mehltheuer.de] }}
'''Mehltheuer''' is a village and a former municipality in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the municipality Rosenbach.<ref>[https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Namens-Grenz-Aenderung/2011.html Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2011], Statistisches Bundesamt</ref>
During World War II, Germany operated a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in the village, in which over 300 Jewish women from German-occupied Poland and Hungary were imprisoned as forced labour.<ref name=gf>{{cite web|url=https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/satellite-camps/mehltheuer|title=Mehltheuer Subcamp|website=KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg|accessdate=3 April 2021}}</ref> The prisoners were liberated by American troops in 1945.<ref name=gf/>
There is a train station in the village.
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