The famous German poet, geologist and author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited Neunkirchen and described the Castle and the Ironworks.

[citation needed] Neunkirchen was awarded township as late as 1922 after having been the largest village in Prussia for some time.

The damage spread over a part of the factory and also hit a nearby residential area and a school building.

As a result, there is a large number of unexploded ordnance from WW2 still present in the area today and around 1/3 of the city consists of buildings from before 1945.

[3] On September 10, 1987, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party Erich Honecker visited his birthplace Neunkirchen.

The Neunkirchen weather station has recorded the following extreme values:[4] There are traces of surface coal mining that reach back as far as 700BC.

They now serve as an industrial monument; parts of them feature small pubs, clubs, a cinema, the first of the German branch of Hooters of America, Inc restaurants and a radio studio of the McDonald's fast food chain.