The documentary "Plauen 900 - The History of the Lace City" takes an impressive look at the city's 900-year history. Unpublished historical photographs, high-resolution aerial photographs and city views as well as numerous well-known contemporary and eyewitnesses, history experts, historians, celebrities and Plauen personalities make the documentary a unique and worthwhile contemporary document. The film was made on the occasion of the city's anniversary in 2022. CHAPTER OVERVIEW: 00:00:00 Opening credits 00:01:05 Plauen night watchman 00:04:34 St. John's Church 00:08:21 Cabaret artist Katrin Weber 00:11:20 Deed of consecration 1122 00:14:35 Dobenau rocks 00:18:36 Plauen is changing 00:25:23 Plauen outdoor swimming pools 00:29:00 The oldest buildings in Plauen (weavers' houses) 00:30:51 Plauen on the way to becoming a textile city 00:34:53 Napoleon in Plauen 00:36:50 The Plauen cotton factories 00:37:39 Weisbach House 00:40:21 Plauen Embroidery machine deal 00:47:24 Triumph of Plauen lace 00:49:27 The super year 1912 00:54:38 The grey GDR era 00:59:42 The downfall of Plauen's large companies after 1989 01:10:05 Disaster in the armaments industry 01:16:17 Plauen's fateful days 01:20:25 Plauen tram 01:25:56 Plauen airport 01:28:06 Prestige object "Oberer Bahnhof" 01:30:34 Plauen Naval Association (U-boat captain Werner Hartenstein) 01:33:44 Erich Ohser/eoplauen - The inventor of father & son 01:38:49 The future of Plauen's economy 01:44:22 Plauen's lace industry 01:50:02 Vogtländische Maschinenfabrik Plauen (Vomag) 01:53:25 Kaffeehaus Trömel 01:59:08 Jews in Plauen 02:03:14 Peaceful Revolution 1989 02:18:05 Post-reunification period 02:25:12 The wonderful transformation of Plauen 02:29:07 Plau'n remains Plau'n World fame and civic pride The fifth largest city in Saxony is proud of its history and has a lot to offer with a theater, cinema, tram and a new campus. Fine textile products from Plauen lace or printing machines from Plamag once made it world famous. The rapid rise of the textile industry at the beginning of the 20th century turned the lace city into a wealthy city with 128,000 inhabitants. The legendary Kaffeehaus Trömel in particular exuded big city flair at the time. The appeal that extends far beyond the borders of the top city and the size of the house with up to 7000 guests a day is unparalleled to this day. But as steeply as Plauen rose in a few decades, it then went downhill. Destroyed in the war and battered by the GDR, Plauen was never able to return to this dazzling era. Until the Peaceful Revolution, the heart of the Vogtland was considered a traditional working-class and industrial city. After 40 years of no say and a feeling of oppression, stupidity and intimidation, the people of Plauen dared to take to the streets almost unnoticed and far away from the big scenes. It was the 40th anniversary of the GDR, October 7, 1989. Thousands of Plauen residents loudly vented their discontent and demonstrated peacefully and completely unexpectedly in front of the capitulating state power against the crumbling regime. It was the beginning of the end and two days before the famous Monday demonstration in Leipzig, the beginning of the Peaceful Revolution. The people of Plauen had to pay a painfully high price for the German unity that was achieved. An unprecedented decline in the city's history of traditional large companies from year to year robbed people of their identity. Of the 24 former industrial giants, not even a handful of shrunken successor companies remain today. Plauen is changing. The city center has changed its face with the castle terraces, entire districts are being structurally changed and the new Plauen center of excellence is currently being built in an old manufacturing building from Saxony's industrial development. The documentary was funded by the city of Plauen and the Saxony Cultural Foundation. #plauen #plauen900 #spitzenstadt Documentary by Martin Reißmann and Mario Unger-Reißmann (D 2022, 151 min) Further information and additional material on the film can be found at https://www.plauen900-film.de.