Intervention areas of the European Capital of Culture 2025
The Chemnitz 2025 urban development project
The city will change in the coming years, as the European Capital of Culture 2025 is also an urban development project. Places will undergo a transformation in very different ways on a total of 30 so-called intervention areas: From the traditional Hartmann Factory (the visitor centre of the European Capital of Culture in the festival year and headquarters of Kulturhauptstadt Europas Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH), to a new district park on a small, renaturalised river (the Pleißenbach) on a former railway site, to a fairground in a rural district where Christmas markets and village festivals will be held in future.
The term "intervention areas" covers infrastructure projects that are linked to the Chemnitz 2025 programme - not just as future event locations, but as places whose transformation can have a far-reaching impact on the city community. They are places where creative makers can discover and develop their skills, meet others and exchange ideas. Both the selection and the development process of the intervention areas are therefore of strategic importance: without a project community, there is no project. The construction measures are based on the needs of the future users and are therefore developed in close cooperation with them, for example through participation formats from the outset.
Scope of the project
Around €30 million is available for the construction projects.
In addition, the City of Chemnitz is expecting further funding from specialist funding programmes for the properties amounting to around €30 million.
This is expected to enable an investment volume of around €60 million.
Intervention areas - things are moving forward!
The city of Chemnitz has 30 intervention areas. And: progress is being made! Join us on a tour of three of the numerous construction sites that will change Chemnitz in the long term. The Stadtwirtschaft will become a place for creative makers, the river will become accessible again at the former Altchemnitz river baths and a play and leisure centre is being built at the Klaffenbach moated castle. Three examples of how Chemnitz is developing sustainably as European Capital of Culture 2025.Places of departure
This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament and by federal funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.