to a Benedictine monastery, including land ownership within a two-mile radius and permission to hold a royal public market ("forum publicum"). This document contains the first recorded mention of Chemnitz. Subsequently a settlement grew around the market. Around 1170, the town was granted the rights of a free imperial city by Emperor Frederick I.

Meissen and Saxony

In 1307, the town became subordinate

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