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Zwickau (tsvĭk`ou), city (1994 pop. 107,988), Saxony, E central Germany, on the Mulde River. It is an industrial city and until the late 1970s was the center of a coal mining region. Manufactures include machinery, textiles, and automobile parts. Zwickau was chartered in the early 13th cent., and it was a free imperial city from 1290 to 1323, when it passed to the margraves of Meissen. The city was (1520–23) the center of the Anabaptist movement of Thomas Münzer Münzer or Müntzer, Thomas (tō`mäs mün`tsər), c. ..... Click the link for more information. . It was repeatedly plundered during the Thirty Years War (1618–48). Noteworthy buildings include a basilica (12th–15th cent.), the Church of St. Catherine (14th cent.), and the city hall (15th cent.). Robert Schumann Clara Josephine (Wieck) Schumann, 1819–96, was one of the outstanding pianists of her time. After bitter opposition from her father she married Schumann in 1840 and eventually bore him eight children. ..... Click the link for more information. was born (1810) in Zwickau, and the city has a Schumann museum. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Historically, Saxony is car-making country, with connections dating back to 1904 when August Horch founded the firm that later became Audi in Zwickau near the German/Czech border. Karant-Nunn, Zwickau in Transition, 1500-1547: The Reformation as an Agent of Change (Columbus, 1987); Guido Marnef, Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis trans, J. Records show that the language was banned in Altenburg, Zwickau, and Leipzig between 1297 and 1327. |
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