On Saturday, 10 May at 10 a.m., Mayor Michael Stötzer will ceremonially open the "Arthur Lange" club, sports and cultural centre at Heinrich-Heine-Straße 7 and symbolically hand it over to the Röhrsdorf local council.
The first floor of the building, which had been empty for a long time, was reactivated, creating a furnished, divisible multifunctional room and another exhibition room of the same size, in which the model "Röhrsdorf 100 years ago" has found a new home. The rooms are complemented by new sanitary facilities, a cloakroom and a small kitchen. In the stairwell, visitors can experience the "Ribbon of History", a permanent installation with details about the town's history.
The association centre is also the starting point of the "Arthur Lange Trail" through the village. In addition to exhibitions by regional artists, the centre offers space for activities by local associations. The project was a long-held wish of the village, and the result is a place of culture, encounters and exchange - a public square. 325,000 euros from the Capital of Culture budget were available for the realisation.
The planning work was carried out by the architects studio2architekten from Chemnitz. The construction work was carried out by companies including Baugeschäft Gebrüder Meyner GmbH from Lichtenau and Hoch- und Ausbau Gesellschaft Waldheim mbH. A total of 15 trades were involved in the realisation.
Background:
The public squares are the result of intensive participation by the people in the districts and localities. The stakeholders from the city's neighbourhoods put a lot of thought into the project and, together with their citizens, selected a public space to be redesigned as part of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. Each of the eight areas of the citizens' platforms and each of the eight incorporated localities received 325,000 euros. For example, a rest area on the Chemnitz Valley cycle path, a themed circular hiking trail around the village of Kleinolbersdorf-Altenhain and a new reception pavilion in Küchwald were realised.
The public squares are among the 30 intervention areas of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. They are the city of Chemnitz's urban development project for the Capital of Culture, which now involves an investment of around 60 million euros.