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13 unusual facts about Zschopau


Audi Type SS

He installed it in a factory he owned just outside Zschopau, near to Audi's own Zwickau plant.

Claudia Nystad

Claudia Nystad (née Künzel, born February 1, 1978, in Zschopau) is a German top-level woman cross country skier.

DKW F1

The Zschopau plant was close to Zwickau and had originated in 1906 as an armaments factory established by Berthold Ruppe.

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.

Grießbach

Since 1850 there has existed a street connecting the village and the next big town, Zschopau.

Karl Schmidt-Hellerau

Karl Camillo Schmidt-Hellerau (1 February 1873 in Zschopau - 6 November 1948 in Hellerau) was a German carpenter, furniture manufacturer and social reformer.

Krumhermersdorf

Krumhermersdorf is a village in the large county borough of Zschopau in the district Erzgebirgskreis in East Germany.

Jahrhundert entdeckte man auf der Flur des Ortes nahe dem Fluss Zschopau Silbererz.

Von der Zschopau im Norden steigt die Flur von dort etwa 310 m ü.

Princess Agnes of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Agnes married Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, eldest child and only son of Karl Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and his wife Princess Sophie of Windisch-Grätz, on 31 May 1829 at Schloss Wildeck in Zschopau, Kingdom of Saxony.

Roland Wieser

Roland Wieser (born 6 May 1956, in Zschopau) is an East German racewalker who won the bronze medal in the 20 kilometer walk during the 1980 Summer Olympics with a time of 1:25:59 hours.

VEB Plasticart

VEB Plasticart was a toy manufacturer established in 1958 in Zschopau, East Germany.

Waldkirchen, Saxony

The settlement of Zschopenthal (mentioned in church records for the first time in 1663) was established on the river Zschopau itself where, in 1687, a paintworks was built.


Christian Liebe

He studied in Leipzig, then was a private teacher in Dresden and from 1684 Rektor and organist in Frauenstein, then from 1690 Rektor in Zschopau till his death.

Preßnitz

Above the town of Wolkenstein the Preßnitz finally discharges into the Zschopau.

Waldkirchen, Saxony

Waldkirchen grew outwards in the direction of Grünhainichen from a church erected at the end of the village, from which the name of the village is derived ("forest church"), along an unnamed side valley of the river Zschopau.