Timeline of Chemnitz

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

Prior to 20th century

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• 1136 – Benedictine monastery [de] founded near Chemnitz.^[1]
• 1143 – Chemnitz "becomes a market town."^[1]
• 1398 – Paper mill established.^[2]
• 1466 – Population: 3,455.
• 1498 – Town Hall [de] built near the Markt (Chemnitz) [de].
• 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 [de] engineering firm).
• 1833 – Chemnitz City Orchestra [de] 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 [de] founded.
• 1869 – Volksbank Chemnitz [de] (bank) founded.
• 1878 – Jewish Cemetery, Chemnitz [de] in use (approximate date).
• 1880
  • Horsecar tram begins operating.
  • Population: 95,123.^[4]
  • Schlosschemnitz [de] becomes part of city.
• 1884 –
  Chemnitz Tar Mummy
  discovered.
• 1885 – Population: 110,817.^{[1] [5]}
• 1888 – St. Peter's Church, Chemnitz [de] built.
• 1890 – Population: 138,954.^[4]
• 1893 – Electric tram begins operating.
• 1895 – Population: 161,017.^[1]
• 1898 – Horsecar tram stop operating.
• 1899 – Chemnitz Synagogue [de] built.

20th century

• 1905 – Population: 244,927.^{[1] [6]}
• 1907 – Bernsdorf [de] becomes part of city.
• 1909
  • Chemnitz Opera
    hall built.
  • König-Albert-Museum (Chemnitz) [de] opens.
• 1910 – Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium (school) established.
• 1911 – New City Hall, Chemnitz [de] built.
• 1913 – Borna-Heinersdorf [de] becomes part of city.
• 1919 – Population: 303,775.^[7]
• 1920 – Chemnitzer Polizeisportverein [de] sport club formed.
• 1926 – Airport Chemnitz opens.
• 1926 – Südkampfbahn stadium opens.
• 1930 – Modernised classification yard Hilbersdorf opens.
• 1933 –
  Adolf Hitler Platz
  ".
• 1934 – Stadion an der Gellertstraße (stadium) opens.
• 1938 – 9 November: Kristallnacht antisemitic unrest; synagogue destroyed.
• 1944 –
  Slovenian, were held there as slave labour.^[8]
• 1945
  • Bombing of Chemnitz in World War II [de].
  • 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 [de] becomes part of city.
• 1953 – City renamed "Karl-Marx-Stadt".
• 1955 – Chemnitz Botanical Garden rebuilt.^[9]
• 1959 – Red Tower, Chemnitz [de] reconstructed.

• 1960 – Arbeiterfestspiele [de] (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 [de] (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 [de] (transit entity) established.
  • Population: 294,244.
• 1991 – Annual "Days of Jewish Culture" begins.^[11]
• 1993 – Peter Seifert [de] becomes mayor.
• 1997 – City-Bahn Chemnitz (transit entity) established.
• 1999 – Röhrsdorf [de] and Wittgensdorf [de] become part of city.

21st century

• 2001 – Villa Esche [de] restored as a cultural space.^[10]
• 2002 – Neue Synagoge opens.
• 2002 – Multi-system tramway network ("Chemnitzer Modell") starts.
• 2003 – Chemnitz Industrial Museum [de] opens.^{[citation needed]}
• 2006 – Barbara Ludwig [de] 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 [de] 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

• Chemnitz history
• History of Chemnitz [de
  ]
• List of mayors of Chemnitz [de]
• List of heritage sites in Chemnitz [de]

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

• "Chemnitz". Handbook for North Germany. London:
  hdl:2027/hvd.hn1imr
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• "Chemnitz".
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• "Chemnitz", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig:
  OCLC 78390379
• "Chemnitz" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 76–77.

in German

• C. W. Zoellner (1886). Geschichte der Fabrik- und Handelsstadt Chemnitz.
• "Chemniz".
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  .
• 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
  .

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