Aue, Saxony
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Aue is a small town in Germany at the outlet of the river Schwarzwasser into the river Zwickauer Mulde in the Ore Mountains, and has roughly 16,000 inhabitants. It was merged into the new town Aue-Bad
July 2008 view of central Aue, including the St. Nicholas' Church
Coat of arms
Bridges over the Zwickauer Mulde
"Altes Rathaus", "Nicolaikirche" and Marketplace, ca 1900
Wismut (company)
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SAG/SDAG Wismut was a uranium mining company in East Germany during the time of the Cold War. It produced a total of 230,400 tonnes of uranium between 1947 and 1990 and made East Germany the fourth la
Aue, Saxony
…German division (3. Bundesliga) Aue was until 1991 a centre of the Sowjetisch-Deutsche Aktiengesellschaft Wismut (“Soviet-German Wismut Corporation”, or SDAG Wismut). The town's first mention came in 1219 when it was named in a document as Bertoldus prepositus de Owa. Owa, later also Awe or Aw referred to the meadow…
Head office of Wismut GmbH in Chemnitz-Siegmar
Shaft 371 in Hartenstein (Ore Mountains), former main shaft on the Niederschlema-Alberoda deposit
Uranium ore (pitchblende in dolomite) from the vein-type deposit Niederschlema-Alberoda
Roter Kamm fault in Bad Schlema: The hematite-quartz mineralised fault is the geological boundary between the Schneeberg and Schlema-Alberoda deposits.