A schoolmaster is mentioned as being in the town in 1304, for instance, leading to the inference that the Lößnitz Latin school was already there then.

In 1406, the Count of Schönburg acquired the County of Hartenstein and made Lößnitz its seat.

However, all of it was lost, along with the church, the parish building, the school and moreover 108 houses, in the “Rote Ruhr” (“Red Dysentery”, a name given this town fire).

Town fires were nothing unusual in those days, and on 10 December 1806 it once again came to pass and among the buildings lost were, again, the town hall, the parish building and the school as well as the mediaeval St. Johanniskirche (church), the brewing and malting house, 182 houses and 16 barns.

The town sprang back from this, but only three years later, there was yet another fire, this one started by a lightning strike.

1982 to 1988 1989 to 1995 1996 to 2002 2003 to 2006 Today's constituent community of Niederlößnitz (“Lower Lößnitz”) was originally a farming village downstream from where the Aubach empties into the Lößnitzbach.

However, the paper mill, which had supposedly once been a hammerworks and a coin blank works, burnt down in 1808 and was never rebuilt.

After the station was built came residential areas and industrial development, leading eventually to Niederlößnitz's amalgamation with the Town of Lößnitz in 1898.

Important businesses were in shoemaking, machine building, textile refining and processing and metalware.

German Reunification brought far-reaching changes in the region leading to the loss of a great deal of the local industry.