Open Monument Day 2025: Description of the monuments
Chemnitz Valley Viaduct railway arch
Beckerstrasse/Annaberger Strasse
After the construction work on the Chemnitz viaduct was completed last year, the intervention area at the viaduct was designed this year. With new green spaces, seating sculptures, a viewing area, playground and information boards. These now form a new, attractive entrance to the city park. The area under the viaduct offers the urban community many opportunities for use.
To mark Open Monument Day, a viaduct festival will be held across the entire area on Saturday, 13 September. A programme with guided tours and music will be offered on Monument Day on Sunday, 14 September.
Organiser: Viadukt e. V.
Saturday, 13 September
15.00 to 21.00
Viaduct festival
with the participation of associations and initiatives concerned with urban development, monument protection and related topics in Chemnitz.
An exhibition by Viadukt e.V., a music programme, offers from other associations and initiatives, active activities for young and old are planned. Catering will be provided.
Sunday, 14 September
10.00 to 14.00
Programme for the Open Monument Day
- Exhibition on the civic commitment of Viadukt e.V. to the Chemnitz Viaduct and the railway arch
- Guided tours of the viaduct (every hour and as required)
- Music: Chemnitz brass band
- Catering and drinks will be provided
Agricola grammar school
Park of the OdF 2
School with front garden, enclosure walls and outbuildings in the style of Hamburg modernist architecture with a strict, architecturally and urbanistically valuable clinker brick façade by architect Robert Emil Ebert. A wide staircase leads between flagpoles to the richly decorated entrance in the centre. The wooden box windows from the time of construction are still preserved, as are the original interior fittings and the roof structure with its crowning cupola.
Organiser: Agricolagymnasium
10.00 - 12.00 a.m.
Open school
The following can be visited: Observatory (maximum of 10 people), library, assembly hall, traditional room, fire bolt figures with information on the history and sale of ceramics
Garage Campus
Zwickauer Straße 164
The tram depot in the Kappel district of Chemnitz was the first tram depot to be built around 1880 for the first horse-drawn tram lines in the city centre. After electrification and the increase in the number of carriages from 1893, the depot and carriage depot were extended in stages.
Organiser: CVAG
10.00 and 12.00
Guided tour
Garage campus stories: Campus (time) journey with William Roebuck (Jens Meiwald)
11.00 and 13.00
Rally across the Garage Campus
14.00 hrs
Guided tour
Capital of Culture & Intervention Area 2025 with Katharina von Storch
Town hall
Theatre Street 3
The Stadthalle is an individual monument of the Stadthalle ensemble - this includes the Stadthalle with its furnishings such as the Jehmlich organ and the works of fine art, the former Interhotel and the Stadthallenpark. This forms a striking, uniform ensemble of buildings in the modernist style with green open spaces that significantly shapes the cityscape in the centre of Chemnitz and is one of the most important cultural monuments of GDR architecture.
Organiser: C³ Chemnitzer Veranstaltungszentren GmbH
10.00, 12.30 and 15.00 hrs
Guided tour
behind the scenes
subject to a charge; > advance booking required
Dresdner Strasse 133
Residence of Ehregott Hermann Dost
The house of master stonemason E.H.Dost was built in various stages between 1867 and 1889. From 1875, the house was remodelled and extended in the neo-Gothic style. After a long period of vacancy, the property has been back in the hands of the master stonemason since the end of 2017 and is being carefully restored to its original state.
Organiser: Till Apfel
10.00 to 17.00 hrs
Guided tours with a maximum of 6 people
Registration at: info(at)ostobjekt.de
Sturdy shoes required
Otto Uhle glove factory (later VEB Polar)
Neukirchner Street 9
In 1909, the trained knitter Otto Uhle had a residential building with a workshop built for himself and his family, in which ten employees and the same number of home workers initially produced gloves. From 1920, a two-storey, seven-axle factory extension was added to the workshop, and a second building was added in 1933. The ensemble also includes a shed with a flat and a two-family house in the Bauhaus style at Neukirchner Straße 13, with a surrounding garden.
Organiser: Förderverein Handschuhfabrik Otto Uhle VEB Polar Strickkunst Chemnitz e. V.
11.00 am and 2.00 pm
Public guided tour / tour of the exhibition
3.30 pm
Closed event: Coffee klatch for former employees of the glove factory/VEB Polar with guided tour of the exhibition
5.30 pm
Short public tour of the exhibition
Registration at post(at)handschuhfabrik.de
Active construction
Annaberger Street 73
Today's "Wirkbau" industrial estate was originally the premises of the "Schubert & Salzer" machine factory. Today's listed complex of the Wirkbau site includes numerous different individual monuments, some of which were designed by important architectural firms from Chemnitz such as "Zapp & Basarke (forge and clock tower around 1927) and Kornfeld and Benirschke (reform style building on Annaberger Straße as the former shoe and stocking factory of the Max Bergmann company).
Organiser: MIB Wirkbau Chemnitz GmbH & Co. KG
11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
Tower tour with a maximum of 15 people
Pre-booking at syr(at)mib.de
Residential building in former semi-open development with ancillary facilities
Hauboldstraße 26
Built around the middle of the 19th century, this simple, semi-open residential building is one of Chemnitz's rare examples of 19th-century low-rise suburban housing. The outbuildings, with an open shed, workshop and courtyard paving, are also protected. The historical advertising on the façade still provides information about the commercial use of the building in the past and is a rarity in Chemnitz.
Organiser: Eileen and Dirk Fellendorf
11.00, 12.30, 14.00 and 15.30 hrs
Guided tours
maximum 15 people
Pre-registration at: architektur(at)fellendorf.gmbh
Küchwald open-air theatre
Küchwaldring 34
The open-air theatre in Küchwald was built in 1956-63 on the ruins of the war-damaged "Küchwaldschänke" as part of the National Reconstruction Work (NAW) according to plans drawn up by Chemnitz architect Roland Hühnerfürst in 1954. With its ensemble of buildings, striking tower and large flight of steps, it occupies a prominent position on the large festival meadow. The building ensemble is part of the traditional post-war architecture characterised by neoclassicism.
Organiser: Küchwaldbühne e. V.
11.00 a.m.
Guided tour of the Küchwaldbühne
Kaßberg prison as a place of learning and remembrance
Kaßbergstraße 16c
The political history of the former Kaßberg Prison ranges from its origins as a general penal institution to a prison for predominantly political prisoners during the Nazi era to a detention centre for the occupying power and later the Ministry of State Security of the GDR. In 1875, construction work began on the building complex for the new Royal Saxon Prison Chemnitz-Kaßberg under the direction of master builder Nauck. The building complex went into use in 1878.
Organiser: Lern- und Gedenkort Kaßberg-Gefängnis e.V.
11.00 a.m.
Guided tour on the topic: The double dictatorship history of the former political prison, the release of prisoners from the GDR and the memorial site concept.l
14.00 hrs
Guided architectural tour with Marc Rennfleisch (rennfleisch ARCHITEKTEN) - from the vacant former prison wing B to the new learning centre
Former tulle factory Chemnitz
Zwickauer Street 145
The cultural monument at Zwickauer Straße 145 is the former textile factory of the "Sächsische Tüllfabrik Aktiengesellschaft", which was founded in 1899. The aim was to demonstrate the efficiency of the first German tulle machine constructed by the "Maschinenfabrik Kappel" in 1886. This was achieved in the purpose-built facility, breaking the English monopoly on tulle. The architect of the factory building was Paul Fiedler.
Organiser: Saxon State Ministry for Infrastructure and Regional Development (SMIL)
Festive event to mark the opening of Saxony's Open Monument Day (for invited guests only)
The cultural monument at Zwickauer Straße 145 is the former textile factory of the "Sächsische Tüllfabrik Aktiengesellschaft", which was founded in 1899. The aim was to demonstrate the efficiency of the first German tulle machine constructed by the "Maschinenfabrik Kappel" in 1886. This was achieved in the purpose-built facility, breaking the English monopoly on tulle. The architect of the factory building was Paul Fiedler.
Organiser: Saxon State Ministry for Infrastructure and Regional Development (SMIL)
Festive event to mark the opening of Saxony's Open Monument Day (for invited guests only)
Castle Hill Museum
Schloßberg 12
The property was originally a former Benedictine monastery, which was converted into a Saxon official castle in the 16th century. The monastery building now houses the Schlossberg Museum. The cloister building and the remains of the cloister have been preserved from its origins. The monastery church, which later became the castle church of St Mary, has also been preserved.
Organiser: City of Chemnitz
3.00 pm
Guided tour of the special exhibition "The New City: Chemnitz as Karl-Marx-Stadt" - with the curator Peer Ehmke
maximum 25 people - pre-registration under: 0371 488-4501
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Mill
Limbacher Street 380
It is a residential and mill building from Chemnitz-Rottluff, built in 1893-94 to replace a previous building that burnt down, with historical mill technology. The location of the Rottluffer Obermühle mill has been documented since 1548. In addition to its value in terms of local and technical history, the building is also significant as the childhood home of one of the leading artists of German Expressionism. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff spent his childhood and youth in the mill building.
Organiser: Förderverein Karl Schmidt-Rottluff e.V.
11.00 - 17.00 (every half hour)
Guided tours of the building, maximum 20 people
Chemnitz Industrial Museum
Zwickauer Street 119
The Chemnitz Industrial Museum is an extensive, industrial-historical and architecturally valuable factory complex that represents one of the most important industrial facilities in Chemnitz. It consists of the former Hermann Escher AG tool factory with foundry hall, fettling shop, workshop buildings and the machine house, built in 1897-1907, and the neighbouring foundry of Schubert & Salzer AG, built in 1910. The sophisticated façade architecture is extremely effective in the cityscape.
Organiser: Chemnitz Industrial Museum
14.00 - Meeting point Stadtbad Chemnitz
Walk in the footsteps of transformation - with tour guide Karin Meisel
Registration: on 0371 3676 410 or by email to muspaed(at)saechsisches-industriemuseum.de
Participation fee 7 Euro
Küchwald Clinic
Bürgerstraße 2
The Küchwald Clinic complex is a medical facility with a group of regularly arranged, interrelated ward and bed buildings as well as irregularly arranged service buildings in front of them - plaster buildings in the style of the reform architecture of the early 20th century, surrounded by park-like green areas with old trees.
Organiser: Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH
13.00 - 15.00 hrs
Opening of the medical history collection
14.00 hrs
Guided tour of the grounds and the bathhouse
Meeting point at the main entrance to House 10
City tour of the residential and retail development in the Street of Nations
Organiser: Tour guide Grit Linke
14.00 hrs
Meeting point: Passageway Straße der Nationen 40
including the stops: Ridge development, rear green areas, shopping centre, multi-storey car park, fountain
Churches and cemeteries open on Open Monument Day
Church Wittgensdorf, Kirchweg 11
Originally built as a simple medieval hall church, the village church of Wittgensdorf was renovated in 1657-60. As early as 1728, the church was extended, a pulpit altar was added and the 37 metre high east tower with Welscher dome was erected. A further extension was added in 1843. The church was given new stained glass windows in 1903. During the extensive renovation of the church interior around 1921, the galleries above and behind the pulpit and the second gallery above the organ were removed.
Open Monument Day meets Harvest Festival
14.00 - 18.00 hrs
Open church with information on the construction work to date
2 pm and 4.30 pm
Guided tour of the church tower
5.00 pm
Tower blowing from the church tower
Evangelical Methodist Church of Peace, Kaßbergstraße 30
The Protestant-Methodist Friedenskirche was built in 1893-94 in neo-Gothic style as a brick building according to plans by the architect Carl Bieber. The church has been almost completely preserved in its original design and is a key feature of the Wilhelminian-style residential neighbourhood of "Kaßberg".
11.00 and 12.00
Guided tours of the church
St Jakobi City Church, Jakobikirchplatz 1
The Stadt- und Marktkirche St. Jakobi is located on one of the oldest church sites in Chemnitz and was the spiritual and social centre of the city for centuries. Situated in the immediate neighbourhood of the two town halls from the Middle Ages and early 20th century and using a shared tower as a bell tower, the sacred building is still part of an important urban ensemble today.
12.00 - 17.00 hrs
Open church
13.00 and 14.00
Guided tours
15.00 hrs
Family-friendly guided tour
Ebersdorf Collegiate Church, Lichtenauer Str. 56
Together with St Mary's Chapel, the two defence towers and the remains of the fortified churchyard, the collegiate church in Ebersdorf forms a late Gothic ensemble. The church gained widespread importance as a Marian pilgrimage church from the middle of the 15th century. The collegiate church is of urban planning significance due to its central position in the village centre of Ebersdorf. In the Baroque period, a stately rectory building was added to the east side of the ensemble.
2.00 pm
"Our church, a place of sacred wooden art treasures" - lecture and guided tour with qualified restorer Anne-Kathrin Läßig
3.00 pm
Thanksgiving service at the end of the facade renovation of the Ebersdorf collegiate church
3.30 pm
Lecture looking back on the construction work for the façade renovation, with Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Lippmann from the planning company Heidelmann und Klingebiel from Dresden
St Jodokus Church Glösa, Kirchberg 2
The church on Glösa's "Eierberg", first documented in 1269, was later joined by a vicarage with a rectory and a church school. A defence wall with two towers served to fortify and defend the ensemble on the hilltop.
After the church was partially destroyed by bombing on 5 March 1945, it was rebuilt according to plans by the architects Gerlach and Dr Laudeley. The rebuilt choir tower church was re-consecrated in 1954. The rectory, which was also the retirement home of Abbot Heinrich von Schleinitz of the Chemnitz Benedictine monastery from 1522, still contains a number of architecturally significant spolia.
15.00 - 17.00
Open church
under the theme: "Our place of worship, not just a monument - a place of silence, of seeking God"
Nikolai Cemetery, Michaelstraße 15
The Nikolai cemetery was consecrated in 1815. The regular, rectangular-shaped cemetery is characterised by its park-like tree planting and the numerous, attractively designed graves.
15.00 hrs
Thematic guided tours of the cemetery
St Nikolai Church, Michaelstraße 15
The building was originally erected in 1891-92 as a cemetery chapel in neo-Gothic style according to plans by Christian Schramm. Since the church of the Nikolaigemeinde had to be demolished after 1945, this chapel has served as a place of worship ever since.
17.00 hrs
Concert
Baroque music for violoncello solo - Ludwig Frankmar (baroque cello) - including works by J. S. Bach, C. Ph. E. Bach