Police in the German city of Leipzig made 211 arrests after far-right supporters vandalised buildings and burned vehicles on the fringes of an "anti-Islamisation" rally.
The unrest came as thousands of activists protested peacefully.
They blame Germany's record influx of refugees for sexual violence against women at New Year's Eve festivities.
Officials say the perpetrators of assaults in Cologne were almost exclusively from a migrant background.
Apparent retaliatory attacks in the cathedral city on Sunday, in which at least 11 people from Pakistan, Syria and Guinea were hurt, were condemned by the government as inexcusable.
Some 250 rioters smashed windows, burned cars and rubbish bins, and threw fireworks that set a floor of a building on fire, reports say.
Protesters opposing Pegida also held a counter-demonstration in Leipzig on Monday evening.
Left-wing activists vandalised a bus that had been hired by the far-right supporters. The police statement did not say whether any leftists had been detained.
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