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.
1833 – formed.
1836 – Royal Mercantile College established.
1840 – Population: 23,476.
1852 – Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof opens.
1864 – Population: 54,827.
1868 – founded.
1869 – founded.
1878 – in use.
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 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 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 – held.
1961
* HKW Chemnitz-Nord power station begins operating.
* City twinned with Tampere, Finland.
1966
* Chemnitzer FC 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 – construction begins.
1986 – City hosts the 1986 European Weightlifting Championships.
1988 – City twinned with Düsseldorf, West Germany.
1990
* City renamed "Chemnitz".
* established.
* Population: 294,244.
1991 – Annual "Days of Jewish Culture" begins.
1993 – becomes mayor.
1997 – City-Bahn Chemnitz established.
1999 – and become part of city.

21st century

2001 – restored as a cultural space.
2002 – Neue Synagoge opens.
2002 – Multi-system tramway network 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 opens in the restored historical Mendelsohn building.
2018 – Protests.
2020 – Stefan Heym-Forum opens in a restored historical building.
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.
2025 – European Capital of Culture
2025 – Opening Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Art-Museum

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Harald Weber. Aus der Geschichte von Chemnitz und Umgebung. Verlag für sächsische Regionalgeschichte, Nördlingen 2000,.