Motoring Memories: Horch, 1901-1939 by Bill Vance!

An extraordinary article! Yes indeed, the story of the famous HORCH luxory cars is amazing.
Besides HORCH the Western Saxon City of Zwickau is the birthplace of the AUDI brand too. The automobile technican August Horch founded his second car plant in 1909 that became AUDI in 1910.

The old moutain city of Zwickau is sorrounded by gentle heights with extensive forests and a fine municipal park, and in its further surroundings offers many possibilities for excursions to Hartenstein with its castle "Stein" and Romantic Hotel, its a miners' rest home from 1936, today a luxury wellnes hotel and the Prinzenhöhle, to the Auersberg (1019 meters) to the popular winter sport region of Johanngeorgenstadt and to the Vogtland.

Zwickau looks back on a history that is nearly 900 yaers old. The careefully preserved treasures of art, handwritings (Incunabels from middle age), documents, letters and books are kept in the Museum, the Town Archives (Hans Sachs(*1494 -+1576) volumes of "Meistersinger von Nürnberg" and in the school library founded by scholars and the city clerk Stephan Roth, during the Reformation.

In the Old Town the Cathedral and the Gewandhaus recall the active churchly, trade and artistic life of the flourishing 16th century, called to life by the Schneeberg silver. Zwickau is today the main site of the Saxon car plants, and at the same time one of the most important industrial towns of the country.

The Zwickau mining lamps and the racing cars of the Auto Union, developed by Ferdinand Porsche and Robert von Eberan-Eberhorst, driven by Bernd Rosemeyer, Hans Stuck, Tazio Nouvolari, Ernst von Delius, are known the world over.

When the noise of the shops subsides, one hears the music of Robert Schumann, which is an especial artist event for all the visitors to the city of towers and shafts.

If you are interested for more information click on www.zwickau.de or the great photograf archive of www.autojewel.de

Good bless you all!
Hardy