Chemnitz, once also known as Karl-Marx-Stadt, had had three different city centres over the last 70 years. A vibrant industrial city before it was completely destroyed WWII, it was rebuilt as a socialist model city and is now a major city on the rise. After all, it has a lot to offer – not just one of the largest portrait busts in the world, the Karl-Marx monument, and its brightly-coloured smoke stack, the tallest work of art in Saxony, but also attractive residential areas with art nouveau, modernist or socialist architecture. The people of Chemnitz cherish their city, but would never gush about it – that’s not in their nature. When they say ‘not bad’, what they really mean is ‘fantastic’.​

Chemnitz is a shortlisted European Capital of Culture Candidate City 2025.

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