Meerane

Meerane is a Saxon district town in the northwest of the district Zwickau. It is the seat of the executive community Meerane Schonberg. Meerane developed into an extraordinary fabric enterprise inside the 19th century, which had an enduring impact at the cityscape. Meerane became probably founded inside the tenth century as a border city between the Sorbian districts and opposite the extended territory of the Eastern Frankish Empire below Henry.

The Wendish phrase mer has the means border. The vicinity Mer bordered presently nevertheless on the imperial avenue through imperii, which led on this section from Altenburg over Ponitz to Zwickau. The earliest date for the church of Meeran is the year 1005, d. H. The Christianization of the vicinity has prevailed till the stop of the 10th century on the brand new. The documentary mention of Meerane is associated with the dying of the Bohemian King Vladislav II, who died in 1174 after the simplest four months stay at the fort Mare.