Aue
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Aue is a small city of 18,000 inhabitants at the confluence of Schwarzwasser and Zwickauer Mulde in the western part of the Erzgebirge. Aue is the capital of the Landkreis Aue-Schwarzenberg.
The town was a centre of engineering and cutlery in times of the DDR. Today, it is developing the tourism since it lays at the touristic route Silberstraße. Aue is well known in the region for its traditional football club FC Erzgebirge Aue, which has been playing in the Second German Ligue since 2003.
Aue was allways a town of mining, especially copper and titanium, but also the first Kaolin for the Meissen China was mined in Aue. The town was a centre of the SDAG Wismut untill 1991.
Geography
Neighbouring towns and villages are Bad Schlema, Bernsbach, Bockau, Zschorlau, Lauter/Sa., Lößnitz, Schneeberg and Hartenstein.History
First appearance of the name town in a document was as "Owe" in 1173, where "Owe" means the meadow at the confluence of Schwarzwasser and Zwickauer Mulde. Oldest building in Aue, from those times, is the church of the former monastry Klösterlein Zelle. One of the oldest pieces of art in Saxony is the graffitti from the east wall of that church, showing Emperor Barbarossa, Mary and a Bishop. It can be seen nowadays in a small church in Annaberg.
After WW II, the town was neither occupied by the Russian nor by the American Armee for a couple of weeks. It was part of the so-called Republic of Schwarzenberg, described in Stephan Heym's novel "Schwarzenberg".
Developement of # of Inhabitants
| 1839 to 1946 | 1950 to 1998 | 1999 to 2004 |
- Source since 1998: Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen
2 31. August
Sons of the Town
- Kurt Teubner (1903-1990), Paintor
- Dietmar Vettermann (* 1957), Mayor of Zwickau
- Thomas Colditz (* 1957), CDU Politician
Further Personalities
- Ernst August Geitner (1783-1852), Chemist and Inventor of Argentan, he foundet in 1829 the "Argentanfabrik Auerhammer", the precedor of nowadays "Auerhammer Metallwerk GmbH".
- Clemens Winkler (1838-1904), Discoverer of Germanium lived in Aue in his childhood and youth.
External links
- [www.aue.de] Homepage der Stadt
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