Timeline of Chemnitz
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Chemnitz, Germany.
Prior to 20th century[edit]
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- 1136 – Benedictine monastery founded near Chemnitz.[1]
- 1143 – Chemnitz "becomes a market town."[1]
- 1398 – Paper mill established.[2]
- 1466 – Population: 3,455.
- 1498 – Town Hall built near the Markt (Chemnitz).
- 16th. C. – "The manufacture of cloth was very flourishing."[1]
- 1539 – Protestant Reformation.[1]
- 1546 – Benedictine monastery, founded in 1136 by the emperor Lothair II is dissolved.[1]
- 1551 – Population: 5,616.
- 1630 – Battle of Chemnitz.
- 1700 – Population: 4,873.
- 1801 – Population: 10,835.
- 1811 – Schwalbe manufactory in business (later Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz engineering firm).
- 1833 – Chemnitz City Orchestra formed.[3]
- 1836 – Royal Mercantile College established.
- 1840 – Population: 23,476.[4]
- 1852 – Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof opens.[1]
- 1864 – Population: 54,827.[4]
- 1868 – Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz founded.
- 1869 – Volksbank Chemnitz (bank) founded.
- 1878 – Jewish Cemetery, Chemnitz in use (approximate date).
- 1880
- Horsecar tram begins operating.
- Population: 95,123.[4]
- Schlosschemnitz becomes part of city.
- 1884 – Chemnitz Tar Mummy discovered.
- 1885 – Population: 110,817.[1] [5]
- 1888 – St. Peter's Church, Chemnitz built.
- 1890 – Population: 138,954.[4]
- 1893 – Electric tram begins operating.
- 1895 – Population: 161,017.[1]
- 1898 – Horsecar tram stop operating.
- 1899 – Chemnitz Synagogue built.
20th century[edit]
- 1905 – Population: 244,927.[1] [6]
- 1907 – Bernsdorf becomes part of city.
- 1909
- Chemnitz Opera hall built.
- König-Albert-Museum (Chemnitz) opens.
- 1910 – Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium (school) established.
- 1911 – New City Hall, Chemnitz built.
- 1913 – Borna-Heinersdorf becomes part of city.
- 1919 – Population: 303,775.[7]
- 1920 – Chemnitzer Polizeisportverein sport club formed.
- 1926 – Airport Chemnitz opens.
- 1926 – Südkampfbahn stadium opens.
- 1930 – Modernised classification yard Hilbersdorf opens.
- 1933 – Theaterplatz (Chemnitz) renamed "Adolf Hitler Platz".
- 1934 – Stadion an der Gellertstraße (stadium) opens.
- 1938 – 9 November: Kristallnacht antisemitic unrest; synagogue destroyed.
- 1944 – Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp established. Over 500 women, mostly Russian, Polish, Italian and Slovenian, were held there as slave labour.[8]
- 1945
- Bombing of Chemnitz in World War II.
- April: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp dissolved. Its prisoners were sent on a death march to German-occupied Rtyně nad Bílinou.[8]
- City becomes part of East Germany.
- 1946 – Population: 250,188.
- 1947 – Wismut (mining company) headquartered in Chemnitz.
- 1950 – Adelsberg becomes part of city.
- 1953 – City renamed "Karl-Marx-Stadt".
- 1955 – Chemnitz Botanical Garden rebuilt.[9]
- 1959 – Red Tower, Chemnitz reconstructed.
- 1960 – Arbeiterfestspiele (workers' cultural festival) held.
- 1961
- HKW Chemnitz-Nord power station begins operating.
- City twinned with Tampere, Finland.
- 1966
- Chemnitzer FC (football club) formed.
- City twinned with Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
- 1967 – City twinned with Arras, France.
- 1968 – City twinned with Timbuktu, Mali.
- 1970 – City twinned with Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia.
- 1971 – 9 October: Karl Marx Monument unveiled.[10]
- 1972
- City twinned with Łódź, Poland.
- Population: 301,502.
- 1974 – Wohngebiet Fritz Heckert (housing) construction begins.
- 1986 – City hosts the 1986 European Weightlifting Championships.
- 1988 – City twinned with Düsseldorf, West Germany.
- 1990
- City renamed "Chemnitz".
- Chemnitzer Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (transit entity) established.
- Population: 294,244.
- 1991 – Annual "Days of Jewish Culture" begins.[11]
- 1993 – Peter Seifert becomes mayor.
- 1997 – City-Bahn Chemnitz (transit entity) established.
- 1999 – Röhrsdorf and Wittgensdorf become part of city.
21st century[edit]
- 2001 – Villa Esche restored as a cultural space.[10]
- 2002 – Neue Synagoge opens.
- 2002 – Multi-system tramway network ("Chemnitzer Modell") starts.
- 2003 – Chemnitz Industrial Museum opens.[citation needed]
- 2006 – Barbara Ludwig becomes mayor.
- 2007 – Gunzenhauser Museum opens.[10]
- 2010 – Population: 243,248.
- 2012 – Thor Steinar "Brevik" shop in business.[12]
- 2014 – March: Neo-Nazi Nationale Sozialisten Chemnitz group banned.[citation needed]
- 2014 – SMAC (Saxonian Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz) opens in the restored historical Mendelsohn building (former "Schocken").
- 2018 – Protests.
- 2020 – Stefan-Heym-Forum opens in a restored historical building (today "Kulturkaufhaus Tietz").
- 2020 – Sven Schulze becomes mayor.
- 2020 – Central academic library of the TU Chemnitz opens.
- 2020 – Schauplatz Eisenbahn is part of the Saxon Exhibition "Boom".
- 2021 – Chemnitz becomes German main part of the Hydrogen and Mobility Innovation Center ("HIC").
See also[edit]
Other cities in the state of Saxony:
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Britannica 1910.
- ^ Wilhelm Sandermann (2013). "Beginn der Papierherstellung in einigen Landern". Papier: Eine spannende Kulturgeschichte (in German). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-662-09193-7. (timeline)
- ^ Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 19th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
- ^ a b c d Brockhaus 1896.
- ^ "German Empire: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
- ^ "Germany". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1908. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590592.
- ^ "Germany: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ a b "Chemnitz Subcamp". KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ "Garden Search: Germany". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ a b c "In Germany, an Unlikely Art Hub Honed by Enthusiasm", New York Times, 27 July 2012
- ^ "Kurt Weill's Heritage: Honor Replaces Scorn; A German City Performs His Jewish Opera", New York Times, 28 June 1999
- ^ "Furore over German 'Brevik' clothing shop in Chemnitz", BBC News, 6 March 2012
This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Bibliography[edit]
in English[edit]
- "Chemnitz". Handbook for North Germany. London: J. Murray. 1886. hdl:2027/hvd.hn1imr.
- "Chemnitz". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t0vq37095.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Chemnitz", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 76–77.
in German[edit]
- C. W. Zoellner (1886). Geschichte der Fabrik- und Handelsstadt Chemnitz.
- "Chemniz". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896. hdl:2027/njp.32101064064445.
- P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Chemnitz". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
- Harald Weber. Aus der Geschichte von Chemnitz und Umgebung. Verlag für sächsische Regionalgeschichte, Nördlingen 2000, ISBN 3-9805106-3-8.
External links[edit]
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