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{{Aboutshort description|the townTown in Saxony, Germany}}
{{Infobox German location
|type = StadtStadtteil
|Town = [[Aue-Bad Schlema]]
|name = Aue
|image_photo = Aue Stadtkern.jpg
|image_caption = July 2008 view of central Aue, including the St. Nicholas' Church
|image_coa = Wappen Aue.jpg
|coordinates = {{coord|50|35|17|N|12|42|2|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Aue in ERZ.png
|state = Sachsen
|district = Erzgebirgskreis
|elevation = 320-564
|area = 20.94
|population = 1806516012
|Stand = 20072017-0612-3031
|postal_code = 08280
|area_code = 03771
|licence = ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 14521030
|Adresse = Goethestraße 5<br />08280 Aue
|website = [http://www.aue.de/ www.aue.de]
|mayor = Heinrich Kohl
|party = CDU
}}
 
'''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, 2010 and 2016.Bundesliga)
 
Aue was until 1991 a centre of the ''Sowjetisch-Deutsche Aktiengesellschaft Wismut'' (“Soviet-German Wismut Corporation”, or [[Wismut (mining company)|SDAG Wismut]]).
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=== Climate ===
[[File:Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Aue (Awst) (SN)-Deutschland.png|thumb|left|Climatic diagram of Aue<ref>[https://archive.istoday/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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== History ==
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.
 
The first [[St. Nicholas' Church, Aue|St. 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’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”).
 
During [[World War II]], a subcamp of the [[Flossenbürg concentration camp]] was located here.<ref>{{cite web |author=Christine O'Keefe |title=Concentration Camps |url=http://www.tartanplace.com/tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html }}</ref>
 
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.
 
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.
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=== Mayors ===
 
 
The following chart shows the mayors and the periods of office.
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! style="width: 14em" | Name || style="width: 26em" | Period of office; note
|-
| Maximilian Kretschmar || 14. February 1889–19131889 – 1913
|-
| Arthur Hoffmann || 1913–1934;<br /><small>since 1924 ''First mayor'' </small>
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| Paul Geipel || 1940–1945
|-
| Max Ziegler|| May-JuneMay–June 1945;<br /><small>temporary</small>
|-
| Hermann Graf || June- August 1945;<br /><small>temporary</small>
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| Alfred Franz || February 1946-September 1946
|-
| (Dr.) Hennig || September-NovemberSeptember–November 1946
|-
| Johannes Heinz || December 1946-October 1949
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| Otto Schmutzler || November 1949-January 1950
|-
| Max Ebert || February-DecemberFebruary–December 1950
|-
| Felix Unger || December 1950- – 1952
|-
| Kurt Müller || 1952–1954
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| Emanuel Klan (CDU)|| 1990-31 August 1999
|-
| Heinrich Wetter || 31 December 1998- – 31 October 1999;<br />official of the district councilor
|-
| Heinrich Kohl (CDU) || since 1 November 1999
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==Economy and infrastructure==
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]].
 
=== Coat of arms ===
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.
 
===Twin towns – Sister cities===
[[Twin towns and sister cities|Partnerships (twinning)]] are:
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Solingen]], Germany, since 1990
*{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Kadaň]], Czech Republic, since November 30, 2003
*{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Guingamp]], France, since 2011
 
== Famous people ==
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=== Other celebrities ===
[[File:Winkler 1875.png|thumb|150px|Clemens Winkler around 1875]]
*[[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.
 
For name origin: [[German placename etymology]]
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Aue (Sachsen)}}
* [http://www.aue.de/ Aue.de], town’stown's homepage
* {{Wikisource-inline|list=
** {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Aue|year=1905|short=x |noicon=x}}
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** {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Aue|year=1920 |short=x |noicon=x}}
}}
 
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