Zschopau

Zschopau is a large district city within the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis. The town was constructed around the fort, which become built inside the middle of the twelfth century to protect the salt street crossing the river Zschopau. From the 14th century, mining become additionally operated, after which Zschopau 1493 privileges of a free mountain city were granted. The meaning, however, constantly lagged behind the large mountain cities in the Erzgebirge.

The development of craft and alternate has been preferred by way of the alternate path, in 1451 Zschopau became offered the marketplace right and 1466 the brewing proper. First guilds of weavers and calico printers had been founded in 1529. Later, textile factories and spinning mills developed, which favored the early transformation of Zschopau into an commercial metropolis at the start of the 19th century. The citadel changed into constructed within the center of the 12th century and served to protect the ford of the salt street through the Zschopau. This road crossed from Halle and Leipzig coming right here the river to then maintain at the then densely wooded heights of the Ore Mountains to Bohemia and Prague.