Werdau

Werdau is a huge district city and lies inside the Saxon district of Zwickau. The town of Werdau The place turned into in the beginning included with forests and was fought for centuries via Slavs and Teutons. Under Charlemagne and Henry I, the Slavs have been driven again more and more and the advancing German settlers created the then Werde, which is said to have acquired town rights in 1298, however handiest in 1304 become first noted in a document.

From 1306 to 1398 Werdau turned into under Reussian rule. In 1398 the metropolis got here into the area of the Wettins, later electors and kings of Saxony. Already inside the 14th century Werdau become a middle of fabric making, which was changed by means of the textile enterprise from the nineteenth century. Interesting is the area of Werdau on the street Reichenbach Altenburg Leipzig, as this became used to move the products produced. Werdau was the town of cloth and Zeuchmacher and visited markets and gala's now not most effective in Leipzig, but additionally in Naumburg and Brunswick and operated change to Franconia, Swabia and Switzerland.