Publications of the Chemnitz City Archive

Published 2019

This volume is dedicated to the topic of immigration to Chemnitz from the 15th century until the 1990s. According to written records, the first immigrants came from Bohemia. Immigrants shaped the transition to the manufacturing age and the first decades of the Industrial Revolution. In the 20th century, it was political emigrants from Greece who found refuge in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt; the city was also a place of work for Hungarian labourers. At the end of the last century, Jewish people from the former USSR came to Chemnitz.

Price : 14,25 Euro

This yearbook contains contributions from a colloquium held in 2013 to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of Chemnitz's first mechanical engineers, Carl Gottlieb Irmscher. However, the colloquium not only focussed on the life and achievements of Irmscher, who like no other mediated the transition to the Industrial Revolution in Saxony around 1800. From an architectural and art-historical perspective, the phenomenon of the cotton machine spinning mill was examined and reference was made to the conservation aspects of dealing with this historic building.

Price: 10,00 EUR

Frieder Jentsch traces the work of Hans Carl von Carlowitz from Rabenstein, who coined the modern concept of sustainability. Heinz Dieter Uhlig, Wolfgang Uhlmann and Stephan Weingart pay tribute to Gustav Krautheim and Johann Winklhofer, two entrepreneurs who established the good reputation of Chemnitz industry. With Hugo Duderstaedt, Stephan Weingart pays tribute to an architect of the city centre before 1945, whose buildings have largely disappeared from the cityscape today. Church music in Chemnitz before 1945 owed its remarkable standard to cantors Franz Mayerhoff and Ewald Siegert, among others, who are expertly introduced by Werner Kaden and Bernd Stephan. Jürgen Nitsche traces the moving fate of Rabbi Hugo Fuchs and Anneliese Feurich honours Carl Mensing, an upright representative of the "Confessing Church" during the Nazi era. Lutz Sartor pays due attention to the liberal political tradition in Chemnitz with his portrait of Alfred Brodauf. The chapter of the suppression of social democratic traditions after 1945, which has long been kept secret, is analysed in Andreas Pehnke's article on Carl Rudolph. Gabriele Viertel pays tribute to Dr Josef Müller, an art historian who has rendered outstanding services to the City History Collection.

Price: 13,00 EUR

The Chemnitz author Eberhard Hübsch, a member of the Saxon Military History Working Group, devotes six individual contributions to the following topics:

• Georgius Agricola on the military of his time
• The Chemnitz garrison from 1644 to 1867 - a chronicle
• The history of military facilities since the middle of the 19th century
• Jewish front-line soldiers in the First World War
• On the war deaths of the Wehrmacht from Chemnitz in the Second World War
• Chemnitz at the end of the Second World War

Of particular importance is the chronicle of the events in Chemnitz and the surrounding area at the end of the Second World War from 1 February to 1 July 1945. For the first time in this form and scope, the troop movements, the situation in the city, the occupation of suburbs and the actions of political and military leaders as well as the transition to peaceful conditions are presented.

Price: 15,00 EUR

The yearbook focuses on the history of urban hygiene, which has been little researched to date. The volume reports on how diseases and epidemics overshadowed the everyday lives of Chemnitz residents in the past, how attempts were made to contain them and which facilities were used to do so. It begins with articles on the St. Georg Hospital, the Siechhof zum Heiligen Geist and the last plague epidemic of 1680. For the first time, the association founded in 1905 to combat consumption is honoured in detail, to which institutions such as the children's forest recreation home in Auerswalde and the Borna sanatorium can be traced back. Further articles are dedicated to industrial washing and disinfection technology, for which the Chemnitz company Oskar Schimmel was a pioneer, the former disinfection centre on Zwickauer Straße and the medical history collection in the clinic.

Price: 12,00 EUR

The 75th yearbook is dedicated to the 450th anniversary of Georgius Agricola's death. It brings together contributions that were held at the Chemnitz "Agricola Talks" in recent years on the scientific and intellectual environment of the polymath and the long-distance effects of his work.
The contributions printed in this issue are thematically diverse. In his essay "Georgius Agricola and the spirit of his time", Martin Guntau describes the scholar as the original bearer of Renaissance humanism, which has emphatically shaped the face of European culture to the present day.
Peter Hammer focuses on "The Assaying of Coin Metals" and turns in particular to the assaying methods for silver and gold coins described by Agricola and Ercker.
Andrea Kramarczyk deals with the topic of "Ulrich Schütz's copper smelter" and looks at the history of the company and the prospects for a Chemnitz archaeological monument. "The silver find and the underground banquet in Schneeberg in 1477" is the subject of Jens Kugler's article. The subject of Günter Marx's essay is "Chemistry at the time of Agricola".
The author gives a chronological overview of important discoveries and book publications and names chemical elements, compounds, procedures etc. that were known in Agricola's time. In her article "Stephan Roth (1492-1546) - an educated citizen in private", Regine Metzler portrays the Zwickau town clerk and later councillor, who was a friend of Georgius Agricola for a time. Lothar Suhling deals with the "Depiction of metallurgical technology by Agricola as reflected in early modern smelting books". Harald Witthöft's contribution is devoted to the subject of weights and measures in antiquity and in Agricola's time.

Price: 10,00 EUR

The yearbook presents six people from Chemnitz who have made outstanding achievements in their field. The biographies deal with the life and work of the following prominent Chemnitz residents:
Philippus Dulichius, a composer from the 16th/17th century; Christian Friedrich Scheithauer, teacher at the girls' school who discovered several coments in the 19th century; Jacob Bernhard Eisenstuck, entrepreneur and co-initiator of Chemnitz's first railway; Oskar Malata, the first general music director of Chemnitz; Prof. Hermann Heuss, architect and art expert; Dr h.c. Rudolph Strauß, city archivist from 1947 to 1971

Price: 12,00 EUR

The brochure looks at previously little or unnoticed evidence of the Chemnitz region's past. With the "forgotten iron hammer of Kleinolbersdorf", it draws attention to a significant discovery. Fans of railway and transport history will be particularly interested in the articles on the 100-year-old Chemnitz - Obergrüna industrial railway and the creation of the Chemnitz - Stollberg city railway. The articles on the destruction of the Thirty Years' War and on dismantling after the Second World War help to fill in the "blank spots" in Chemnitz's economic history.

Price: 15,00 EUR

The second booklet on "Chemnitz in the 20th century" contains articles on education and culture. The city's educational institutions are represented with the Saxon State Institute for the Blind and Feebleminded in Chemnitz-Altendorf before the First World War, the Chemnitz primary schools during the Weimar Republic, the Chemnitz State Academy of Technology during the Nazi era and the secondary schools in the post-war period. From the field of culture, the musical life of the 20th century in Chemnitz, the Chemnitz Volksbühne theatre in the pre-war period and the "Neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte" and "Neue Sächsische Galerie", which were founded in 1990, are dealt with in detail.

Price: 10,00 EUR

This booklet contains the papers from a scientific conference held on 6 and 7 November 1998 to mark the granting of the privilege for the first cotton machine spinning mill in Harthau near Chemnitz. Research results on this Bernhard company and its influence on Saxon machine spinning, other machine spinning mills and their technology, machines and architecture, which were modelled on English examples, are dealt with in detail here. The book also covers the topic of "Innovation today", including the example of Union Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH in Chemnitz.

Year of publication: 1999

Price: 8,00 EUR

Based on a consideration of historical societies in East and West, the discussion contributions of a colloquium in Chemnitz on the publishing activities of these societies from Chemnitz, Lübeck, Leipzig, Erfurt, Bamberg and Nuremberg as well as on the "Dresdner Hefte" are reproduced. Other articles concern the archive of the Chemnitz History Society, archaeological investigations in the city of Chemnitz as well as construction science, architecture and civil engineering as educational lines at the technical educational institutions in Chemnitz. Two further essays are devoted to disappeared Chemnitz churches and the first director of church music in Chemnitz, Theodor Schneider.

Year of publication: 1998

Price: 8,00 EUR

This issue focuses on the pioneers of the Chemnitz History Society, such as Reinhard Zöllner, Alwin Gottschaldt and Paul Uhle; it also honours the heraldist Arthur B. Uhlmann-Uhlmannsdorff and the music historian Walter Rau. Essays on the activities of this association include the "Mitteilungen des Chemnitzer Geschichtsvereins", the epitaph of Baron Johann Georg II von Taube and the 750th anniversary of the city of Chemnitz in 1893; a further contribution deals with the re-establishment of the historical association in 1990.
Year of publication: 1997

Price: 8,00 EUR

A fundamental look at monument protection and preservation in the city of Chemnitz is followed by articles on listed residential complexes from the years of the Weimar Republic, industrial monuments, school buildings, military memorials, the Judith Lucretia portal, excavations in old Chemnitz churches and a review of how the "memories for posterity" in the city have been preserved.industrial monuments, school buildings, military memorials, the Judith Lucretia Portal, excavations in old Chemnitz churches and a look back at how "memories for posterity" were preserved in the city.
Year of publication: 1995

Price: 8,00 EUR

This volume pays tribute to Dr Georgius Agricola, the European naturalist and humanist from Saxony. It mainly contains essays by international authors on Agricola and mining in Saxony, in what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Norway, evidence of his work in Italy, Switzerland and on some aspects of Agricola's reception.
Year of publication: 1994

Price: 8,00 EUR

The volume contains observations on Chemnitz associations in the 19th century, the Chemnitz History Society, the "Kunsthütte" association in Chemnitz, the Chemnitz Ore Mountains Branch Association, Chemnitz music and singing societies and a list of the associations dissolved between 1945 and 1948.
Year of publication: 1992

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