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With almost 90,000 inhabitants, Zwickau is the fourth largest city in Saxony and a regional centre in the southwestern part of the state.

An area called the territory of Zcwickaw was first mentioned in 1118. For almost 800 years, coal was mined here and in the surrounding region. As a result, the town developed into the centre of Zwickau’s coalfield. As an electoral town until 1806, Zwickau in the Kingdom of Saxony had been the seat of the district administration since 1834/1835, from 1874 the seat of the district administration (after 1939 the administrative district of Zwickau) and became an independent city in 1907. In 1952, in the course of the total restructuring of the administrative structures in order to enforce the principle of so-called democratic centralism in the GDR, Zwickau lost its status as the seat of government that had existed since 1834 and became part of the district of Karl-Marx-Stadt (until 1953 district of Chemnitz). Since 2008, Zwickau is no longer district-free; the town was incorporated into the newly formed district of Zwickau.