Oberrothenbach
Sign in to saveOberrothenbach () is a village (Ortsteil) and former municipality in Saxony, Germany. It was incorporated into the municipality of Zwickau in 1999. Its population was 647 in 2018. Oberrothenbach is situated on the left bank of the Zwickauer Mulde, 6 km north of the centre of Zwickau.
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Oberrothenbach () is a village (Ortsteil) and former municipality in Saxony, Germany. It was incorporated into the municipality of Zwickau in 1999. Its population was 647 in 2018. Oberrothenbach is situated on the left bank of the Zwickauer Mulde, 6 km north of the centre of Zwickau.
== History == thumb|left|150px|Siegelmark of Oberrothenbach dating 1850 - 1923, when the village was a Gemeinde (Germany)|Gemeinde Oberrothenbach is first definitively attested in 1221 as Rudnbax. An early local legend apparently involves the Virgin Mary appearing to a founder and saying, "Here you will build a haven for laborers." The settlement later flourished as a mining area by the Late Middle Ages, of which it was part of Electoral Saxony. During the Industrial Revolution in the German Empire, industrial mineral mining would be established in the town and many moved to Oberrothenbach to work.
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