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634:, Elsterberg developed to one of the most important industrial locations of the district of Gera. At this time, industrialisation forms a modern industry town out of Elsterberg, with its "VEB"(state owned company) "Kunstseidenwerk", producing spinnable fiber and in the late 70s additionally sponges, its "VEB Wäscheunion", which as its first priority manufactured bed linen, its "VEB Wärmegerätewerk", which produced the coveted "Glutos"-stoves and its leather factory.
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Three disastrous fires destroyed
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Through the political change, the leather and stove industry collapsed and even the spinnable fiber industry had to suffer a lot. After 1990 just a few parts of the "Kunstseidenwerk" stayed alive. The "spinnable fiber of
Elsterberg" remained internationally demanded, despite its reduced staff due to
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The small town of
Elsterberg remained exempt from air raids, except a few unexploded bombs, during World War II. On April 16, 1945 American troops occupied the town. In July of the same year Soviets took over the occupation. Being driven out of Bohemia-Moravia, the Sudetenland and Silesia, a great
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All factories in
Elsterberg were expropriated, industrial plants and large estates were sometimes even violently confiscated, the machinery was dismantled and carried off to the Soviet Union and companies were forced to nationalization. Nevertheless, the production of spinnable fiber, leather and
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Originally there was no thought of founding this city, however, when 36 close villages came to
Elsterberg in the purpose of starting their trade there, market rights were needed. The first appearance in documents of the name Elsterberg as a town was in 1354. Till the end of the 17th century
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colonized the area and built up a new castle in 1225, later called Castle
Elsterberg. These lords had let establish a huge church beneath their castle and let Frankonians and Saxons take up residence around as their subjects.
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Elsterberg was first mentioned in documents dating from 1198. This mention is based on townspeople information and a document presumably destroyed by a fire in 1840. In this document a small knight seat, there called
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in 1910, one of the most influential and important company in this field before WW II. The leather industry boomed as well. In the year 1885 Elsterberg was connected to the railway network between
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Elsterberg is situated in a deep valley, which begins in the neighbouring town of Greiz, and is surrounded by dense forests. This valley continues till the incorporated village
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modernisation processes. This continued until 2009, when the "International
Chemical Investment Group" closed the factory in favour of its affiliated factory in
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number of evacuees had found a new accommodation in
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documentary files and records got irretrievably lost. Therefore, today's townscape is influenced by the restoration after 1840.
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Elsterberg was a typical rural town, fulfilling just its own requirements through trade inside its allowed zone of trading.
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553:Ritter Rayer von Elsterberg
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16:Town in Saxony, Germany
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1094:Netzschkau
1069:Lengenfeld
1044:Elsterberg
1029:Bösenbrunn
1019:Bad Elster
918:References
911:Elsterberg
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410:Elsterberg
307:Population
267:Government
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1144:Rosenbach
1139:Rodewisch
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1084:Mühlental
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645:Obernburg
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560:Lobdeburg
501:Kleingera
480:Elstertal
457:Geography
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299:Elevation
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1114:Oelsnitz
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1039:Ellefeld
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899:See also
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495:Coschütz
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248:District
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1074:Limbach
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953:. 2024.
537:History
528:Noßwitz
513:Scholas
439:Germany
398:Website
229:Germany
225:Country
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197:50°36′N
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1159:Theuma
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435:Saxony
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447:Greiz
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274:Mayor
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