Stadtarchiv Chemnitz: Publications
From the Chemnitz City Archive
Volume 13: Chemnitz - City historical discoveries. Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
"Chemnitz - City Historical Discoveries" considers three different themes of life in Chemnitz between the 14th and 16th centuries, the time of a systemic change in world history and the change in each person's perception of their own role in society: from the epidemic of the plague to the Reformation via the discovery of America and violent wars between France and the Habsburg states ...
Price: 17,00 EUR
Volume 12: The "Fritz Heckert" residential area. Building in new dimensions
1st prize main category Saxon State Prize for Local History Research 2020
The author is the civil engineer and landscape architect Norbert Engst. In addition, Karl Joachim Beuchel, Karl-Marx-Stadt's long-time city planning director and city architect, has written a technically competent and at the same time sensitive introduction for the volume ...
Price: 25,00 EUR
Special volume: Album of Chemnitz history
In 2018, the year of the city's anniversary, this volume was published with illustrations of 105 certificates, photos and other documents on the history of Chemnitz, primarily from the city archives ...
Price: 15,00 EUR
Volume 11: Chemnitz - Departure into the Modern Age - Contributions to the City's History 1918-1933
If Chemnitz today sees itself as a "city of modernity", it was the years of the Weimar Republic, which are examined in this book, that set clear accents on the way to a modern city ...
Price: 10,00 EUR
Volume 10: Chemnitz in the Nazi Era - Contributions to the History of the City 1933-1945
For the first time, research findings on this dark chapter of the city's history are summarised here in one volume. For the first time, research findings on this dark chapter of the city's history are summarised here in one volume. The volume contains articles by Dirk Hänisch on the voting behaviour of the Chemnitz population at the beginning of the Nazi regime, by Andreas Pehnke on the school system, by Anne Naumann on the press landscape, by Benjamin Krohn on the Evangelical Lutheran Church, by Werner Kaden on musical life, by Stephan Weingart on building development and by Wolfgang Uhlmann on the armaments industry.
Jürgen Nitsche in his essay on the treatment of the physically and mentally ill, Stephan Pfalzer in his article on the use of forced labourers and Eberhard Hübsch in his account of the murder of seven anti-fascists at Hutholz deal with particularly perfidious aspects of the Nazi system.
Unfortunately no longer available, can be viewed in the city archives
Volume 9: The City with the Monument - On the History of Building 1945-1990
This book offers city history at first hand, as the author helped shape the development of Karl-Marx-Stadt over two decades, from 1964 to 1984, as city planning director and city architect ...
2nd edition published in 2017, price: EUR 10.00
Volume 8: Chemnitz between 1450 and 1650 - People in their contexts
The volume is published on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Georgius Agricola's death and covers the period from the beginning of the early modern period to the end of the Thirty Years' War ...
Price: 10,00 EUR
Volume 7: Atlas Crusius - Mayor in difficult times
The publication deals with the period after the Thirty Years' War in Chemnitz. Irene Crusius places the work of her ancestor, the mayor Atlas Crusius, in the wider context of the city's history and describes the difficult circumstances of his time in office ...
Price: 5,00 EUR
Volume 6: On the origins and early history of the city of Chemnitz
This volume brings together the contributions of renowned experts, which were held at a colloquium of the Chemnitz City Archive on 24 April 2002 ...
Price: 5,00 EUR
Volume 5: Urban green spaces in Chemnitz
This booklet contains the first comprehensive and summarised account of the history of Chemnitz's green spaces. The study covers around 100 years of their creation and management from the beginning of the 19th century to 1923 ...
Price: 5,00 EUR
Volume 4: From Alberti to Zöppel - 125 biographies on the history of Chemnitz
This volume continues the collection of short biographies on the history of Chemnitz begun in Volume 2. In it, personalities are presented in summarised form who have helped to shape the development of Chemnitz over the last five centuries ...
Price: 5,00 EUR
Volume 3: Contributions to the history of the town
This booklet offers a cross-section through various topics of economic history, social history, political history, cultural history, institutional history and personal history of the city ...
Unfortunately no longer available.
Volume 2: From André to Zöllner - 125 biographies on the history of Chemnitz
For the first time, important personalities who have shaped the development of Chemnitz over the last three centuries - in one way or another - are presented in a summarising volume in text and pictures ...
Available as a reprint at a price of 5.00 EUR.
Volume 1: Georgius Agricola and his family - Documents
The 500th birthday of the famous Chemnitz scholar provided the external occasion for this booklet. For the first time, the sources on Georgius Agricola and his family, which are held in the city archives, are comprehensively reproduced ...
Unfortunately no longer available.
On the trail of the past - Chemnitz history
An important concern of the Chemnitz City Archive is to prepare its sources for schoolchildren and to visualise historical processes for them. This is why the idea was born to create folders with a text section and illustrative panels to facilitate access to the sources. The idea was also to draw attention to the traces of the past that can be found in our immediate surroundings. This is how the series "On the Traces of the Past - Chemnitz History - Representations and Documents" came into being. This refers not only to the written documents stored in the City Archive's storerooms, but also to evidence found in today's cityscape.
Chemnitz in the First World War - Text-picture folder
The folder analyses a piece of German and European history from an urban history perspective. It is suitable for history lessons and is aimed at pupils and teachers as well as readers interested in history. It is the fourth of its kind after publications on Georgius Agricola, the city fortifications and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Price: 5,00 EUR
Chemnitz - a station in the life of Dr Georgius Agricola
The folder was published to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of the famous mining scientist and mayor of Chemnitz. The accompanying booklet was written by Gisela Helbig and Silke Goldberg. It deals with the following topics:
- The connection between the city of Chemnitz and Dr Georgius Agricola
- Agricola's path to becoming a polymath
- Our city 500 years ago - how did people live in Agricola's time?
- Agricola - a contemporary witness of the Reformation in Chemnitz
- Mayor in critical times
- The folder contains 20 attachment plates, including extracts from Agricola's works with explanatory notes.
Unfortunately no longer available, can be viewed in the city archives
Chemnitz - City and city fortifications
The archaeological excavations in the city centre aroused particular interest in the city fortifications of the city, which was once called "Kempniz die feste". The folder contains 16 layout plates, including a plan of the city centre of Chemnitz before 1945 and today, on models of the city fortifications and on the results of the excavations in the city centre.
Available as a reprint at a price of EUR 2.00.
Industrial revolution in Saxony - first factories on the Chemnitz river
The folder was published on the occasion of the establishment of the first cotton machine spinning mill in Saxony, the Bernhard spinning mill in Harthau near Chemnitz, 200 years ago (1798). The accompanying booklet was written by Hans Münch.
Price: 2,00 EUR
Individual publications of the Chemnitz City Archive
History of the city of Chemnitz
This latest, short and concise history of Chemnitz was published by Wartberg-Verlag in co-operation with the Chemnitz City Archives ...
Price: 16,80 EUR
The history of the city of Chemnitz - a city chronicle
Anyone looking for a brief, summarised presentation of the city's history can consult this small brochure. An overview of the most important periods of the city's development is followed by a "Chemnitz history in figures" (around 1136 - 1996) ...
Price: 1,00 EUR
Karl-Marx-Stadt 1989 - Chemnitz 2009 - A city in transition - Chronicle in words and pictures
For six decades, the Chemnitz City Archive has been recording current events in the city chronicle. Many years were rather unspectacular, but time and again news of significance for the city was recorded. However, what happened in the autumn of 1989 and afterwards in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt could not be compared with what had happened before ...
Price: 10,00 EUR
Searching for traces - Jewish fellow citizens in Chemnitz
On the occasion of the consecration of the New Synagogue of the Jewish Community on the Kapellenberg, the Chemnitz City Archive has taken up the "search for traces" of the former places of life and work of Jewish people in our city ...
Price: 2,50 EUR
Two letters by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Chemnitz City Archive
There are two original letters with Johann Sebastian Bach's signature in the files of the city archives ...
Price: 1,00 EUR
Old Chemnitz excursion restaurants
From its extensive picture archive, the city archive has published a selection of picture postcards of once popular Chemnitz restaurants as a reprint ...
Price: 2,50 EUR
The Chemnitz carnival from its beginnings to the 1950s
For the first time, the history of the Chemnitz carnival is treated in a closed publication ...
Price: 5,00 EUR
The heart of the city - Chemnitz and its New Town Hall
The electronic municipal archive (elKA) of the Saxon municipalities
Announcements of the Chemnitz Historical Society
Following on from the earlier "Mitteilungen des Vereins für Chemnitzer Geschichte", this series has been published by the Chemnitz History Society in co-operation with the City Archive since 1992.
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