Hohenstein-Ernstthal
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Hohenstein-Ernstthal is a town in the Zwickau rural district, Saxony, Germany. The towns of Hohenstein and Ernstthal were united in 1898, and the town is either known by its hyphenated form, or simply
Hohenstein-Ernstthal
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
Karl May in 1907
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Karl Friedrich May was a German author known for travel writing. His works, often in first-person narrative sabout travels and adventures, were mostly set in the American Old West or the Orient and Mi
Hohenstein-Ernstthal
…of August Ernst von Schoenburg. Physicist Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert and inventor Christoph Gottlieb Schröter were born in Hohenstein. The writer Karl May was born in Ernstthal. The house of his birth is a museum. Furthermore, Hohenstein-Ernstthal is especially famous for the Sachsenring racing circuit…
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The family house then on Niedergasse 111, where Karl May was born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal. The house was inherited by May's mother in 1838 and sold in 1845 (photo 1910).
The house where Karl May was born is now located on Karl-May-Straße (photo 2005). The street was named in his honor. Next to the house is a modern Karl May depository, literary museum and research center that was established in July 2022.
May and Sascha Schneider, 1904