Towards the end of World War II since January 1945 in what is now the district Niederoderwitz one outpost of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp existed, which mainly Jewish inmates were used for forced labor.

Furthermore,a small memorial located on the surface of the primary school Max Langer evocatives of the siblings Scholl.

In the cemetery of the suburb Oberoderwitz a grave recalls the Polish forced laborer Michalina Woysiak who was shot in May 1945.

A commemorative plaque for the opponent of Hitler, Willi Netsch, at the house Dorfstraße 189 was removed after 1990.

On the slopes of the mountain Sonnenhübel, there are the so-called Steinklunsen, rock formations on which a dense beech forest has grown.