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

Prior to 20th century

  • 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

Castle Church at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
Arbeiterfestspiele participants in front of City Hall, 1960
  • 1960 - Arbeiterfestspiele (workers' cultural festival) held.
  • 1961
  • 1966
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

Other cities in the state of Saxony:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Britannica 1910.
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Sandermann (2013). "Beginn der Papierherstellung in einigen Landern". Papier: Eine spannende Kulturgeschichte (in German). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-662-09193-7. (timeline)
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Brockhaus 1896.
  5. ↑ "German Empire: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
  6. ↑ "Germany". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1908. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590592.
  7. ↑ "Germany: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
  8. 1 2 "Chemnitz Subcamp". KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  9. ↑ "Garden Search: Germany". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 "In Germany, an Unlikely Art Hub Honed by Enthusiasm", New York Times, 27 July 2012
  11. ↑ "Kurt Weill's Heritage: Honor Replaces Scorn; A German City Performs His Jewish Opera", New York Times, 28 June 1999
  12. ↑ "Furore over German 'Brevik' clothing shop in Chemnitz", BBC News, 6 March 2012

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