# Timeline of Chemnitz

"none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Chemnitz, Germany.

## Prior to 20th century

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* 1136 – Benedictine monastery [de] founded near Chemnitz.
* 1143 – Chemnitz "becomes a market town."
* 1398 – Paper mill established.
* 1466 – Population: 3,455.
* 1498 – Town Hall [de] built near the Markt (Chemnitz) [de].
* 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 [de] engineering firm).
* 1833 – Chemnitz City Orchestra [de] formed.
* 1836 – Royal Mercantile College established.
* 1840 – Population: 23,476.
* 1852 – Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof opens.
* 1864 – Population: 54,827.
* 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.
** Schlosschemnitz [de] becomes part of city.
* 1884 – Chemnitz Tar Mummy discovered.
* 1885 – Population: 110,817.
* 1888 – St. Peter's Church, Chemnitz [de] built.
* 1890 – Population: 138,954.
* 1893 – Electric tram begins operating.
* 1895 – Population: 161,017.
* 1898 – Horsecar tram stop operating.
* 1899 – Chemnitz Synagogue [de] built.

## 20th century

* 1905 – Population: 244,927.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
** 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.
* 1959 – Red Tower, Chemnitz [de] reconstructed.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1993 – Peter Seifert [de] becomes mayor.
* 1997 – City-Bahn Chemnitz (transit entity) established.
* 1999 – Röhrsdorf [de] and Wittgensdorf [de] become part of city.

## 21st century

* 2001 – Villa Esche [de] restored as a cultural space.
* 2002 – Neue Synagoge opens.
* 2002 – Multi-system tramway network ("Chemnitzer Modell") starts.
* 2003 – Chemnitz Industrial Museum [de] opens.
* 2006 – Barbara Ludwig [de] becomes mayor.
* 2007 – Gunzenhauser Museum opens.
* 2010 – Population: 243,248.
* 2012 – Thor Steinar "Brevik" shop in business.
* 2014 – March: Neo-Nazi Nationale Sozialisten Chemnitz [de] 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").
* 2025 – European Capital of Culture