During GDR times, the Pioneer Holiday Camp Clara Zetkin was established, where children from West Germany could also spend their vacations.

Later, the Zwickau District Court convicted Nico D. as the ringleader of the right-wing extremist scene for arson, bodily harm, and use of unconstitutional symbols, and sentenced him to 2+1⁄2 years in prison.

The prosecutor clarified that there had been no diffuse gang warfare in Limbach-Oberfrohna; rather, he only knew of cases with right-wing perpetrators and left-wing victims.

[8] In the summer of 2012, initial negotiations took place between the district of Meinsdorf in the municipality of Callenberg and Limbach-Oberfrohna regarding incorporation.

The reason for this is the close cultural ties to Limbach-Oberfrohna and the expectation that Callenberg could merge with Hohenstein-Ernstthal in the future.

During this time (on Saturday, 3 September 2016), a new world record was set in Mensch ärgere Dich nicht with 1052 players.

The rejection occurred with votes from the CDU, the Free Voters, and the AfD, on the grounds that Max Tennler and Arno Förster, who were shot by Nazis, were members of the KPD (Communist Party of Germany) and therefore "not well disposed towards democracy."

As a result, the initiator of the action, councilor Albert Klepper (Greens), questioned the entire honoring, stating that "no distinctions should be made" among the victims.