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'''Aue''' ({{IPA-|de|ˈʔaʊ̯ə|-|Aue.ogg}}) is a small town in [[Germany]] at the outlet of the river [[Schwarzwasser (Mulde)|Schwarzwasser]] into the river [[Zwickauer Mulde]] in the [[Ore Mountains (Central Europe)|Ore Mountains]], and has roughly 1816,000 inhabitants. It was merged into the new town [[Aue-Bad Schlema]] in January 2019. Aue was the administrative seat of the former district of [[Aue-Schwarzenberg]] in [[Saxony]], and is part of the [[Erzgebirgskreis]] since August 2008. It belongs to the Silberberg Town League (''Städtebund Silberberg'')

The mining town has been known for its [[copper]], [[titanium]], and [[kaolinite]]. The town was a machine-building and [[cutlery]] manufacturing centre in [[East Germany|East German]] times and is now developing [[tourism]], as the [[Silver Road]] (''Silberstraße'') runs through town. The town is also known for the football club [[FC Erzgebirge Aue]], which madeis itcurrently intoplaying in the [[2.3rd Fußball-Bundesliga|SecondGerman ''Bundesliga'']]division in(3. 2003 and 2010.Bundesliga)

[[File:Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Aue (Awst) (SN)-Deutschland.png|thumb|left|Climatic diagram of Aue<ref>[https://archive.today/20120527004745/http://www.dwd.de/de/FundE/Klima/KLIS/daten/online/nat/index_mittelwerte.htm Deutscher Wetterdienst, Normalperiode 1961-1990]</ref>]]

Aue’sAue's average air temperature is 8.0&nbsp;°C, and the yearly [[precipitation (meteorology)|precipitation]] is 790&nbsp;mm.

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The town’stown's first mention came in 1219 when it was named in a document as ''Bertoldus prepositus de Owa''. ''Owa'', later also ''Awe'' or ''Aw'' referred to the meadow (although ''Aue'' in [[German language|German]] actually means “[[floodplain]]”) at the forks of the Schwarzwasser und Zwickauer Mulde, where the first settlers had their homes next to the small [[monastery]] of Zelle, founded in 1173. In 1479, [[tin]] and [[silver]] [[mining]] began, leading to an upswing in the town’stown's fortunes. In 1526, the ''Auerhammer'' ([[ironworks]]), later called Eisenwerk and now a constituent community of Aue, had its first documentary mention.

In 1627, Aue was granted market rights by Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony for a yearly market on Saint Bartholomew’sBartholomew's Day (27 August), and in 1632 for a second, the ''Katharinenmarkt'', on 25 November. In 1635, Veit Hans Schnorr founded the first [[Cobalt blue|blue]] [[dye]] works in Saxony in Niederpfannenstiel, now also a constituent community of Aue. From 1711 [[kaolin]] was also delivered to [[Meißen]] for preparing [[porcelain]]. 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 royal ''[[Amt (administrative division)|Amt]]'' court had taken up its function in the town.

One of Saxony’sSaxony's oldest artworks is the painting from the east wall of the little monastery, which shows Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa, [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary]] and a bishop. In the 1930s, it was removed for reasons of restoration, and is now found in the ''St.-Annen-Kapelle'' near the [[cathedral]] in [[Freiberg, Saxony|Freiberg]]. A copy by H. Beck is found in the ''Friedenskirche Aue-Zelle'' (“Peace Church”).

Like [[Schwarzenberg, Saxony|Schwarzenberg]], the town remained unoccupied for a while after the Second World War ended in 1945.

From 1952 to 1990, Aue was part of the [[Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt]] of [[East 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.

The town has a station at the junction onof the [[Zwickau–Schwarzenberg railway|Zwickau–Schwarzenberg line]] and the [[Chemnitz-Adorf railway|Chemnitz–Adorf line]]. It is served by [[Regionalbahn]] trains, operated by ''[[Erzgebirgsbahn]]'' (a subsidiary of [[Deutsche Bahn]]) between Zwickau and [[Johanngeorgenstadt]] and by [[Tram-train|Tram-trains]], operated by [[City-Bahn Chemnitz]] between Aue and [[Burgstädt]].

The town’stown'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.

*[[Ernst August Geitner]] (1783–1852), [[Chemistry|chemist]], [[physician]], [[Botany|botanist]] and inventor of [[Nickel silver|German silver]], founded Auerhammer German silver works in 1829, forerunner of today’stoday's Auerhammer Metallwerk GmbH thereby laying the groundwork for the town‘stown's development into a centre for German silver cutlery manufacture.

*[[Clemens Winkler]] (1838–1904), German chemist, discoverer of the chemical element [[germanium]], spent his youth in the constituent community of Niederpfannenstiel; Aue’sAue's [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]] is named for him.

== SourcesReferences ==

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* [http://www.aue.de/ Aue.de], town’stown's homepage