Timeline of Chemnitz

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1945
• .
• April: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp dissolved. Its prisoners were sent on a death march to German-occupied Rtyně nad Bílinou.
• 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.
• 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 (Saxon Railway Museum) is part of the Saxon Exhibition "Boom".
• 2021 – Chemnitz becomes German main part of the Hydrogen and Mobility Innovation Center ("HIC").
• 2025 – European Capital of Culture
• 2025 – Opening Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Art-Museum

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

in German

• 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