Timeline of Chemnitz

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

Prior to 20th century

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.

Castle Church at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

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 – Theaterplatz (Chemnitz) [de] 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.^[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.

Arbeiterfestspiele participants in front of City Hall, 1960

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.

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").

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

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