Mehr Auf Zwickau

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Zwickau is of Slavonic origin, and is mentioned in 1118 as a trading place. The name is fancifully derived from the Latin cygnea, from a tradition that placed a " swan lake " here which had the property of renewing the youth of those who bathed in it. Zwickau was an imperial possession, but was pledged to Henry the Illustrious, margrave of Meissen (d. 1288). The German king Charles VI. conferred it as a fief in 1348 on the margraves of Meissen, and it thus passed to their successors the electors of Saxony. The discovery of silver in the Schnee-berg in 1470 brought it much wealth. The Anabaptist movement of 1525 began at Zwickau under the inspiration of the " Zwickau prophets." Robert Schumann (1810-1856), the musical composer, was born here in a house which still stands in the market-place.