Aue | |
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 July 2008 view of central Aue, including the St. Nicholas' Church | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Aue | |
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| Coordinates:50°35′17″N12°42′2″E / 50.58806°N 12.70056°E /50.58806; 12.70056 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Saxony |
| District | Erzgebirgskreis |
| Town | Aue-Bad Schlema |
| Area | |
• Total | 20.92 km2 (8.08 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 564 m (1,850 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 320 m (1,050 ft) |
| Population (2017-12-31) | |
• Total | 16,012 |
| • Density | 765.4/km2 (1,982/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 08280 |
| Dialling codes | 03771 |
| Vehicle registration | ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP |
| Website | www.aue.de |
Aue (German pronunciation:[ˈaʊ̯ə]ⓘ) is a small town inGermany at the outlet of the riverSchwarzwasser into the riverZwickauer Mulde in theOre Mountains, and has roughly 16,000 inhabitants. It was merged into the new townAue-Bad Schlema in January 2019. Aue was the administrative seat of the former district ofAue-Schwarzenberg inSaxony, and is part of theErzgebirgskreis since August 2008. It belongs to the Silberberg Town League (Städtebund Silberberg)
The mining town has been known for itscopper,titanium, andkaolinite. The town was a machine-building andcutlery manufacturing centre inEast German times and is now developingtourism, as theSilver Road (Silberstraße) runs through town. The town is also known for the football clubFC Erzgebirge Aue, which is currently playing in the 3rd German division (3. Bundesliga)
Aue was until 1991 a centre of theSowjetisch-Deutsche Aktiengesellschaft Wismut (“Soviet-German Wismut Corporation”, orSDAG Wismut).
The town's first mention came in 1219 when it was named in a document asBertoldus prepositus de Owa.Owa, later alsoAwe orAw referred to the meadow (althoughAue inGerman actually means “floodplain”) at the forks of the Schwarzwasser und Zwickauer Mulde, where the first settlers had their homes next to the smallmonastery of Zelle, founded in 1173. In 1479,tin andsilvermining began, leading to an upswing in the town's fortunes. In 1526, theAuerhammer (ironworks), later called Eisenwerk and now a constituent community of Aue, had its first documentary mention.
The firstSt. Nicholas' Church, of which no details have been passed down, was located on the former church square, the Kirchplatz (the present Neumarkt) and must have been replaced by a new building between 1625 and 1628. On 4 August 1633 this building, together with a large part of the town, was destroyed in a raid by imperial troops. By 1636 the church had been temporarily rebuilt.
In 1627, Aue was granted market rights by Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony for a yearly market on Saint Bartholomew's Day (27 August), and in 1632 for a second, theKatharinenmarkt, on 25 November. In 1635, Veit Hans Schnorr founded the firstbluedye works in Saxony in Niederpfannenstiel, now also a constituent community of Aue. From 1711kaolin was also delivered toMeißen for preparingporcelain. Since the mid-18th century, documents have referred to Aue as a town. In 1897, Zelle was amalgamated with Aue, and Alberoda followed in 1929. Already by 1901, the royalAmt court had taken up its function in the town.
One of Saxony's oldest artworks is the painting from the east wall of the little monastery, which shows Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa,Mary and a bishop. In the 1930s, it was removed for reasons of restoration, and is now found in theSt.-Annen-Kapelle near thecathedral inFreiberg. A copy by H. Beck is found in theFriedenskirche Aue-Zelle (“Peace Church”).
DuringWorld War II, a subcamp of theFlossenbürg concentration camp was located here.[1]
LikeSchwarzenberg, the town remained unoccupied for a while after the Second World War ended in 1945.
From 1952 to 1990, Aue was part of theBezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt ofEast Germany. Until 1994, the town was the administrative seat of the district of Aue. With district reform in Saxony that year, Aue became the administrative seat of the newly formed district of Aue-Schwarzenberg.
Since 1996, there has been a Silberberg Town League (Städtebund Silberberg), to which, besides Aue, also belong Schneeberg, Schwarzenberg, Bad Schlema, Lauter and Lößnitz. In November 2006 the mayors of Aue, Lößnitz, Schneeberg and Bad Schlema expressed the intention of amalgamating their respective municipalities into a united town of Silberberg.
Bordering communities areBad Schlema,Bernsbach,Bockau,Zschorlau, the towns ofLauter,Lößnitz andSchneeberg in the district of Aue-Schwarzenberg as well as the town ofHartenstein in theZwickauer Land.
Development of population figures(from 1960 on 31 December):
1839 to 1939
| 1946 to 1984
| 1995 to 2002
| 2003 to 2006
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1 29 October
2 31 August
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The climate of Aue is typical of anoffshore climate (Köppen:Cfb;Trewartha:Dolk). Aue's average air temperature is 8.8 °C (47.8 °F), and the yearlyprecipitation is 827.7 mm (32.59 in).
The Aue weather station has recorded the following extreme values:[3]
| Climate data for Aue, 1991−2020 normals, extremes 1977-present | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 16.9 (62.4) | 20.1 (68.2) | 23.5 (74.3) | 30.0 (86.0) | 31.5 (88.7) | 36.8 (98.2) | 35.5 (95.9) | 37.1 (98.8) | 31.4 (88.5) | 27.2 (81.0) | 20.9 (69.6) | 17.0 (62.6) | 37.1 (98.8) |
| Mean maximum °C (°F) | 11.7 (53.1) | 13.9 (57.0) | 18.3 (64.9) | 23.5 (74.3) | 27.2 (81.0) | 30.7 (87.3) | 31.6 (88.9) | 31.7 (89.1) | 27.1 (80.8) | 23.1 (73.6) | 16.4 (61.5) | 12.0 (53.6) | 33.8 (92.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 3.7 (38.7) | 4.9 (40.8) | 8.7 (47.7) | 14.0 (57.2) | 18.3 (64.9) | 21.6 (70.9) | 23.7 (74.7) | 23.7 (74.7) | 19.0 (66.2) | 13.9 (57.0) | 8.2 (46.8) | 4.6 (40.3) | 13.7 (56.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.3 (32.5) | 1.0 (33.8) | 3.9 (39.0) | 8.4 (47.1) | 12.7 (54.9) | 16.0 (60.8) | 17.9 (64.2) | 17.5 (63.5) | 13.3 (55.9) | 9.0 (48.2) | 4.4 (39.9) | 1.4 (34.5) | 8.8 (47.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.0 (26.6) | −2.7 (27.1) | −0.3 (31.5) | 2.7 (36.9) | 6.8 (44.2) | 10.2 (50.4) | 12.2 (54.0) | 11.8 (53.2) | 8.3 (46.9) | 4.8 (40.6) | 1.0 (33.8) | −1.7 (28.9) | 4.2 (39.6) |
| Mean minimum °C (°F) | −13.8 (7.2) | −11.8 (10.8) | −7.4 (18.7) | −3.8 (25.2) | 0.5 (32.9) | 4.3 (39.7) | 6.9 (44.4) | 6.2 (43.2) | 2.3 (36.1) | −2.3 (27.9) | −6.2 (20.8) | −10.9 (12.4) | −16.2 (2.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −22.9 (−9.2) | −22.5 (−8.5) | −18.4 (−1.1) | −10.7 (12.7) | −3.7 (25.3) | −0.9 (30.4) | 3.1 (37.6) | 2.1 (35.8) | −1.5 (29.3) | −8.0 (17.6) | −15.7 (3.7) | −21.2 (−6.2) | −22.9 (−9.2) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 57.5 (2.26) | 48.9 (1.93) | 60.6 (2.39) | 48.1 (1.89) | 77.5 (3.05) | 89.5 (3.52) | 97.2 (3.83) | 94.4 (3.72) | 70.4 (2.77) | 62.9 (2.48) | 58.2 (2.29) | 62.6 (2.46) | 827.7 (32.59) |
| Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) | 16.4 (6.5) | 15.6 (6.1) | 5.5 (2.2) | 2.7 (1.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0.7 (0.3) | 6.0 (2.4) | 11.1 (4.4) | 26.0 (10.2) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 17.2 | 15.8 | 16.2 | 13.2 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 13.9 | 15.0 | 15.2 | 18.2 | 185.4 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 80.2 | 77.4 | 75.2 | 69.8 | 70.9 | 71.5 | 70.9 | 71.6 | 77.9 | 80.0 | 82.7 | 82.2 | 75.9 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 61.3 | 78.4 | 115.2 | 143.0 | 185.2 | 185.5 | 195.1 | 183.7 | 139.5 | 118.9 | 58.2 | 56.2 | 1,520.5 |
| Source: DWD Open Data[4][3] | |||||||||||||
The following chart shows the mayors and the periods of office.
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The town has a station at the junction of theZwickau–Schwarzenberg line and theChemnitz–Adorf line. It is served byRegionalbahn trains, operated byErzgebirgsbahn (a subsidiary ofDeutsche Bahn) between Zwickau andJohanngeorgenstadt and byTram-trains, operated byCity-Bahn Chemnitz between Aue andBurgstädt.
The town's arms show two wooden bridges, one over the other, in gold on blue over a wavy silver watery surface, each bridge with two little flags on the balustrade flying left.
For name origin:German placename etymology
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