Timeline of Chemnitz explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Chemnitz, Germany.

Prior to 20th century

• 1136 – founded near Chemnitz.
• 1143 – Chemnitz "becomes a market town."
• 1398 – Paper mill established.^[1]
• 1466 – Population: 3,455.
• 1498 – built near the .
• 16th. C. – "The manufacture of cloth was very flourishing."
• 1539 – Protestant Reformation.
• 1546 – Benedictine monastery, founded in 1136 by the emperor Lothair II is dissolved.
• 1551 – Population: 5,616.
• 1630 – Battle of Chemnitz.
• 1700 – Population: 4,873.
• 1801 – Population: 10,835.
• 1811 – Schwalbe manufactory in business (later engineering firm).
• 1833 – formed.^[2]
• 1836 – Royal Mercantile College established.
• 1840 – Population: 23,476.
• 1852 – Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof opens.
• 1864 – Population: 54,827.
• 1868 – founded.
• 1869 – (bank) founded.
• 1878 – in use (approximate date).
• 1880
  • Horsecar tram begins operating.
  • Population: 95,123.
  • becomes part of city.
• 1884 – Chemnitz Tar Mummy discovered.
• 1885 – Population: 110,817. ^[3]
• 1888 – built.
• 1890 – Population: 138,954.
• 1893 – Electric tram begins operating.
• 1895 – Population: 161,017.
• 1898 – Horsecar tram stop operating.
• 1899 – built.

20th century

• 1905 – Population: 244,927. ^[4]
• 1907 – becomes part of city.
• 1909
  • Chemnitz Opera hall built.
  • opens.
• 1910 – Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium (school) established.
• 1911 – built.
• 1913 – becomes part of city.
• 1919 – Population: 303,775.^[5]
• 1920 – sport club formed.
• 1926 – Airport Chemnitz opens.
• 1926 – Südkampfbahn stadium opens.
• 1930 – Modernised classification yard Hilbersdorf opens.
• 1933 – 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.^[6]
• 1945
  • .
  • April: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp dissolved. Its prisoners were sent on a death march to German-occupied Rtyně nad Bílinou.^[6]
  • City becomes part of East Germany.
• 1946 – Population: 250,188.
• 1947 – Wismut (mining company) headquartered in Chemnitz.
• 1950 – becomes part of city.
• 1953 – City renamed "Karl-Marx-Stadt".
• 1955 – Chemnitz Botanical Garden rebuilt.^[7]
• 1959 – reconstructed.

• 1960 – (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.
• 1972
  • City twinned with Łódź, Poland.
  • Population: 301,502.
• 1974 – (housing) construction begins.
• 1986 – City hosts the 1986 European Weightlifting Championships.
• 1988 – City twinned with Düsseldorf, West Germany.
• 1990
  • City renamed "Chemnitz".
  • (transit entity) established.
  • Population: 294,244.
• 1991 – Annual "Days of Jewish Culture" begins.
• 1993 – becomes mayor.
• 1997 – City-Bahn Chemnitz (transit entity) established.
• 1999 – and become part of city.

21st century

• 2001 – restored as a cultural space.
• 2002 – Neue Synagoge opens.
• 2002 – Multi-system tramway network ("Chemnitzer Modell") starts.
• 2003 – opens.
• 2006 – becomes mayor.
• 2007 – Gunzenhauser Museum opens.
• 2010 – Population: 243,248.
• 2012 – Thor Steinar "Brevik" shop in business.
• 2014 – March: Neo-Nazi group banned.
• 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

• Chemnitz history

Other cities in the state of Saxony:

• Timeline of Dresden
• Timeline of Leipzig

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Book: Handbook for North Germany. J. Murray. London. 1886. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn1imr?urlappend=%3Bseq=370. Chemnitz. 2027/hvd.hn1imr?urlappend=%3Bseq=370.
• Book: Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t0vq37095?urlappend=%3Bseq=162. Chemnitz. . Chambers's Encyclopaedia. 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t0vq37095?urlappend=%3Bseq=162.
  • Chemnitz . 6 . 76 - 77 . 1910 . . 1.

in German

• Book: C. W. Zoellner. Geschichte der Fabrik- und Handelsstadt Chemnitz. 1886.
• Book: Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. Leipzig. Brockhaus. 1896. 14th. de. Chemniz. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101064064445?urlappend=%3Bseq=159. . Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. 2027/njp.32101064064445?urlappend=%3Bseq=159.
• Book: P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht. Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas . Meyer's Atlas of German Cities. 1913. Bibliographisches Institut. Leipzig. de. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009018394. Chemnitz.
• Harald Weber. Aus der Geschichte von Chemnitz und Umgebung. Verlag für sächsische Regionalgeschichte, Nördlingen 2000, .

External links

• Links to fulltext city directories for Chemnitz via Wikisource
• Europeana. Items related to Chemnitz, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Chemnitz, various dates

Notes and References

1. Book: Wilhelm Sandermann. Papier: Eine spannende Kulturgeschichte. 2013. Springer-Verlag. 978-3-662-09193-7 . de . Beginn der Papierherstellung in einigen Landern . (timeline)
2. Book: Colin Lawson. Colin Lawson. Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-00132-8 . Orchestras Founded in the 19th Century (chronological list) . https://books.google.com/books?id=1DW1WyiooSMC&pg=PA275 .
3. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1890 . London . Macmillan and Co.. German Empire: Area and Population: Principal Towns . 2027/nyp.33433081590527?urlappend=%3Bseq=557 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590527?urlappend=%3Bseq=557 .
4. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1908 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Germany . 2027/nyp.33433081590592?urlappend=%3Bseq=1128 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590592?urlappend=%3Bseq=1128 .
5. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Germany: Area and Population: Principal Towns . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=972 . HathiTrust . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=972 .
6. Web site: Chemnitz Subcamp. KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg. 9 August 2022.
7. Web site: Garden Search: Germany . . London . 30 November 2015 .