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9 unusual facts about Chemnitz


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The Pegasus of 1839 was the first locomotive to be built by the Sächsische Maschinenbau-Compagnie in Chemnitz.

2012 German motorcycle Grand Prix

It took place on the weekend of 6–8 July 2012 at the Sachsenring in Chemnitz, Germany.

Adolf von Brauchitsch

Adolf von Brauchitsch died in Chemnitz, Germany on the 21 January 1935 at age 58 and was given a military funeral.

Brook Billings

Played in the Four Nations' Tournament in Leipzig, Germany and then scored 16 points in an exhibition victory over Germany played in Chemnitz.

Chemnitz Opera

The Chemnitz Opera (Opernhaus Chemnitz) is an opera house and opera company in Chemnitz.

DRG Class 99.73–76

The first series of 13 locomotives was built by the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik, previously Richard Hartmann, in Chemnitz.

Hartmannsdorf, Mittelsachsen

Hartmannsdorf (Hartmannsdorf bei Chemnitz) is a small municipality in the district Mittweida, Free State of Saxony, Germany, near the town Chemnitz.

Saxon V K

For the hilly line of the Müglitztalbahn from Mügeln to Geising-Altenberg the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik in Chemnitz developed an eight-coupled locomotive which, it was envisaged, would handle this route better that the hitherto deployed Saxon Classes I K and IV K.

Tefla and Jaleel

Tefla & Jaleel are a hip hop group from Chemnitz in Eastern Germany.


Andrea Hübner

Andrea Hübner (born 17 February 1957 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a retired German swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships, breaking world records in the 200 m medley and 4×100 m freestyle relay events.

Boon Rawd Brewery

Boon Rawd bought two German breweries in Hartmannsdorf and Mittweida in Saxony in 1994, which until 2001 produced Singha Gold for the European market.

Chemnitzer

Chemnitzer FC, a German football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony

Chemnitzer BC, a German football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony

DKW F89

Except of former DKW factory at Berlin-Spandau, the Auto Union’s manufacturing plants had been located in Saxony at Zwickau, Chemnitz and Zschopau when war had put an end to passenger vehicle production in 1942.

Einheits-PKW der Wehrmacht

The medium off-road passenger car was built by the Opelwerk Brandenburg (chassis only), Wanderer in Siegmar-Schönau (today a part of Chemnitz), and Horch in Zwickau (both members of Auto Union).

Einsiedel Dam

The local council of Einsiedel, which lay below the proposed dam, had unsuccessfully objected against the dam site in Stadtguttal in light of the breach of the South Fork Dam in 1889 that had caused approximately 2,200 deaths.

Flöha Valley Railway

Januar 2005 wurde der durchgehende Zugverkehr zwischen Chemnitz Hbf und Olbernhau wieder aufgenommen.

Hameg

HAMEG maintained subsidiaries in Chemnitz (product development) and Münchenbernsdorf (PCB assembly) as well as a distribution subsidiary in France (HAMEG Instruments France S.a.r.l.).

Other company divisions such as development (Mainhausen and Chemnitz), product management, sales, customer service and quality assurance have remained independent.

History of Saxony

It was dissolved in 1952, and divided into three smaller 'Bezirke' based on Leipzig, Dresden and Karl-Marx-Stadt, but reestablished within slightly altered borders in 1990 upon German reunification.

Josef Goller

He created stained glasses for town halls in Nuremberg, Dresden, Chemnitz and for many churches and schools in Saxony, the synagogue of Görlitz, but also for the windows of the neo-Baroque Kaiserpalast, Dresden's most impressive private building that time, Dresden Zoo and Leipzig Hauptbahnhof.

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf was born in Plaue, Austria, on 16 February 1837 and educated in Chemnitz and Dresden in neighbouring Germany at various technical schools before taking up technical work for the Leipzig-Dresden Railway.

Margaret of Sicily

The marriage took place in June 1255, the bride receiving Pleissnerland (the towns of Altenburg, Zwickau, Chemnitz and Leisnig) as her dowry.

Marienberg

The B 174 federal highway from Chemnitz runs through the town towards Reitzenhain (border of Czechia) as does the B 171 from Wolkenstein to Dippoldiswalde.

Martin Chemnitz

(Chemnitz had been trained as an astrologer, and he was consulted on the advisability of adopting the new 1582 Gregorian calendar in place of the old Julian calendar.)

Martin Hoop

On May 2, 1933 (cf also Gleichschaltung), Hoop was arrested in the café restaurant of the department store "Tietz" in Chemnitz and transported to Schloss Osterstein in Zwickau, which at the time served as concentration camp.

Mid-Germany Railway

It is part of a possible direct rail connection from the Ruhr and Frankfurt am Main via Eisenach, Erfurt, Weimar, Jena West, Jena-Göschwitz, Gera, Gößnitz, Werdau, Zwickau, Chemnitz as far as Dresden and offers an alternative route to the route currently used by long-distance traffic from Erfurt to Dresden via Leipzig.

Neukieritzsch–Chemnitz railway

Ultimately, it was decided for reasons of cost to take the route from Borna via Geithain and Burgstädt to Chemnitz.

New states of Germany

The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 includes plans for the extension of the A14 from Magdeburg to Schwerin and construction of the A72 from Chemnitz to Leipzig.

Nuremberg–Cheb railway

Since the timetable change on 10 December 2006, the Franken-Sachsen-Express Interregio-Express service operates on the line, using class 612 diesel multiple units (DMUs), from Nuremberg via Bayreuth or Marktredwitz to Hof, continuing via Chemnitz to Dresden, replacing an InterCity service.

Parsytec

Parsytec/ParaCom's headquarters were maintained in Aachen (Germany), however they had subsidiary sales offices in Chemnitz (Germany), Southampton (United Kingdom), Chicago (USA), St Petersburg (Russia) and Moscow (Russia).

Raupenschlepper, Ost

Approximately 23,000 RSO of all versions were produced by Steyr (2,600 pcs), Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD; 12,500 pcs), Auto Union - Siegmar plant (former Wanderer; 5,600 pcs) and Gräf & Stift (4,500 pcs).

Royal Saxon State Railways

This had been necessary, after the private firm, the Chemnitz-Riesa Railway Company, had gone bankrupt due to the cost of structures needed between Waldheim und Döbeln.

Saxon Museum of Industry

It is organised as a "special purpose association" (German: Zweckverband), the members of which are the towns of Chemnitz, Crimmitschau, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Hoyerswerda.

Saxon XIV HT

Two locomotives have been preserved: number 75 501 by the German Steam Locomotive Museum at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, which was loaned to the Schwarzenberg railway museum in 2002 and number 75 515 by the Saxon Railway Museum in Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf, which was badly damaged in a shunting accident on 14 June 1983 at Karl-Marx-Stadt Hauptbahnhof.

Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre

Men and women of all ages and even children were murdered at Sonnenstein, including those from the Katharinenhof in Saxony's Großhennersdorf and from the Chemnitz-Altendorf State Institute.

Vejprty–Annaberg-Buchholz railway

The service runs via Annaberg-Buchholz and Flöha to Chemnitz, where there are more connections to the surrounding area.

Viktor de Kowa

He was born the son of a farmer and engineer in Hohkirch near Görlitz (present-day Przesieczany in Poland), from where his family moved to Seifersdorf near Dippoldiswalde in Saxony in 1908 and to Chemnitz in 1913.


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