Timeline of Chemnitz

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

Prior to 20th century

 * 1136 – Benediktinerkloster Chemnitz founded near Chemnitz.
 * 1143 – Chemnitz "becomes a market town."
 * 1398 – Paper mill established.
 * 1466 – Population: 3,455.
 * 1498 – Altes Rathaus (Chemnitz) built near the Markt (Chemnitz).
 * 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 Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz engineering firm).
 * 1833 – Stadtorchester Chemnitz formed.
 * 1836 – Royal Mercantile College established.
 * 1840 – Population: 23,476.
 * 1852 – Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof opens.
 * 1864 – Population: 54,827.
 * 1868 – Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz founded.
 * 1869 – Volksbank Chemnitz (bank) founded.
 * 1878 – Jewish Cemetery, Chemnitz in use (approximate date).
 * 1880
 * Horsecar tram begins operating.
 * Population: 95,123.
 * Chemnitz-Schlosschemnitz 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.
 * 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 – Wohngebiet Fritz Heckert (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 is part of the Saxon Exhibition "Boom".
 * 2021 – Chemnitz becomes German main part of the Hydrogen and Mobility Innovation Center ("HIC").

in German

 * Harald Weber. Aus der Geschichte von Chemnitz und Umgebung. Verlag für sächsische Regionalgeschichte, Nördlingen 2000, ISBN 3-9805106-3-8.
 * Harald Weber. Aus der Geschichte von Chemnitz und Umgebung. Verlag für sächsische Regionalgeschichte, Nördlingen 2000, ISBN 3-9805106-3-8.
 * Harald Weber. Aus der Geschichte von Chemnitz und Umgebung. Verlag für sächsische Regionalgeschichte, Nördlingen 2000, ISBN 3-9805106-3-8.
 * Harald Weber. Aus der Geschichte von Chemnitz und Umgebung. Verlag für sächsische Regionalgeschichte, Nördlingen 2000, ISBN 3-9805106-3-8.