Chemnitz

Chemnitz is the third-biggest city in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an autonomous city which isn't a piece of any area and seat of the Landesdirektion Sachsen. Situated in the northern lower regions of the Ore Mountains, it is a piece of the Central German Metropolitan Region. The city's economy depends on the administration division and assembling industry. Chemnitz University of Technology has around 10,000 understudies. Chemnitz is named after the stream Chemnitz, a little tributary of the Zwickau Mulde. "Chemnitz" is from the Sorbian language, and signifies "stony brook". The word is made out of the Slavic word kamen signifying "stone" and the female postfix - ica.

An early Slavic clan's settlement was situated at Kamienica, and the primary recorded utilization of the name Chemnitz was the 1143 site of a Benedictine religious community around which a settlement developed. Around 1170 Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor conceded it the privileges of an Imperial city. In 1307, the town wound up subordinate to the Margraviate of Meissen, the ancestor of the Saxon state. In medieval occasions, Chemnitz turned into a focal point of material generation and exchange. More than 33% of the population worked in material creation. Theater Chemnitz offers an assortment of theater: musical drama, plays, expressive dance and Figuren manikins, and runs shows by the symphony Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie.