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." 1357 – received from Frederick III, Margrave of Meissen. 1398 – Paper mill established. (timeline) 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 – Villa Esche 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

Timeline of Chemnitz

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