News about colonisation on the Chemnitz River
Lecture by the city archives on 24 October, 6 pm, at smac
As part of the series "The City Archive presents", the lecture "News on the settlement on the Chemnitz River" will take place on Thursday, 24 October at 6 pm at the State Museum of Archaeology (smac), Stefan-Heym-Platz 1. The speaker is the linguist and onomastics expert Prof Dr Karlheinz Hengst. Admission is free. The lecture is a joint event organised by the City Archive and the Chemnitz History Society.
For the first time, a chronological sequence of the development of the area along the Chemnitz River and the course of settlement will be presented on the basis of new research. The overview begins with the first settlements from the end of the 11th century and the subsequent establishment of a small manor around 1100 up to the Chemnitz ford. The planned expansion due to the growing importance of the Böhmische Steige is continued with the foundation of the monastery by Emperor Lothar III around 1130 and the expansion of the first villages by the Benedictines. After 1143, the knight's seat of Auerswalde with Garnsdorf was established as a margravial institution. The expansion of the monastery territory and the foundation of Zschillen Monastery in the second half of the 12th century during the reign of Emperor Frederick I in the course of the great expansion of the land along the Kamenitsa and the expansion of the land east of the river, which began in 1174.
You can find the municipal archive's lecture programme for 2019 at www.chemnitz.de