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Historischer Stich von Glashütte

Glashütte

German watch town in Saxony, near Dresden

Glashütte was documented for the first time in the abbey matriculation of Meissen of 1346. The Archpriest of Dippoldiswalde had, inter alia, the supervisory of the churches at “Bernstein”, “Jahnsbach”, “Dittersdorf” and “Glashütte”. Therefore already in 1346 these places had their own churches or chapels. In the year 1506 the Saxon Duke George the Bearded gave the town of Glashütte its first charter.

In 1769 Glashütte was known as a “place very impoverished by the total decline of mining”, which was “completely ruined by the recent disastrous war”.

The boom as a town of watches began in December 1845, when Ferdinand Adolph Lange, with the help of a loan from …

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