The minin toun haes been kent for its copper, titanium, an kaolinite. The toun wis a machine-biggin an cutlery manufacturin centre in East German times an is nou developin tourism, as the Siller Road (Silberstraße) runs through toun. The toun is kent for the fitbaa club FC Erzgebirge Aue an aw, which made it intae the Seicont Bundesliga in 2003 an 2010.