Places to see in ( Chemnitz - Germany )

Places to see in ( Chemnitz - Germany )

Chemnitz is a city in Saxony, eastern Germany. Its huge Karl Marx Monument commemorates the socialist pioneer for whom the city was once named. Nearby, the reconstructed Red Tower is a remnant of the city's defensive walls. The Gunzenhauser Museum displays modern art and is an example of the New Objectivity style of architecture. Set in a former foundry, the Chemnitz Museum of Industry houses an 1896 steam engine.

In the state of Saxony, Chemnitz is a manufacturing city that came to the fore during industrialisation in the 19th century. That boom era is recorded by an excellent industrial museum, and the wealth generated for industrialists and new middle class is still evident in Kaßberg, the largest contiguous Art Nouveau district in Germany.

In the days of the GDR from 1953 to 1990 Chemnitz was named Karl-Marx-Stadt, even though there was no real historical connection between the city and Marx. In 1971 the city was presented with a monument to the man, a heavy-duty piece of Socialist Realist art still there today. The Kunstsammlung Chemnitz is a superb art museum whose four branches will keep you inspired for hours, while the natural history museum has a grove of petrified trees 291 million years old.

In the former foundry hall of the “Hermann und Alfred Escher AG” tool factory is a comprehensive exhibition of Industriemuseum Chemnitz about Saxony’s industrial heritage. Housed in four venues around the city, the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is an award-winning art museum.

There’s 300,000 years of human history at the Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz in a converted Art Deco department store. The oldest exhibits date to Middle Palaeolithic Period, while the most recent are from the last days before industrialisation. The Roter Turm started out as a Bergfried, a free-standing defensive tower, before being adapted into the city defences around 1230. That reddish colour comes from the stone, which is volcanic ignimbrite and occurs in most of Chemnitz’s oldest buildings.

The sculpture of Karl Marx’s bust is on Brückenstraße (formerly Karl-Marx Allee), and was cast in the Monument Skulptura foundry in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad at the time). The Russian sculptor Lev Kerbel appointed to design the monument in 1953, and his Socialist Realist work would finally be unveiled in 1971. Standing on its plinth the sculpture comes to 13 metres and weighs about 40 tons.

One of the branches of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Villa Esche is an Art Nouveau mansion designed by Henry van de Velde for the Chemnitz textile manufacturer Herbert Eugen Esche. In the countryside south of the city is a preserved Renaissance and Baroque moated castle of Wasserschloss Klaffenbach. There’s another branch of the Kunstsammlung Chemnitz in the former headquarters of the city’s savings and loan association.

On high ground over the Schlossteich pond is a museum in a former Benedictine monastery of Schlossbergmuseum Chemnitz. First erected on its rocky pedestal in the 13th century, Burg Rabenstein has the honour of being Saxony’s smallest castle.

The solemn ensemble on Theaterplatz is completed by the city’s resplendent Neo-Baroque opera house. In the DAStietz cultural centre, Chemnitz’s natural history museum is the oldest museum in the city, established in 1859. These collections of minerals, insect specimens and fossils go back to this time and were all housed in what is now the Museum am Theaterplatz before moving home in the 1960s.

Across the Chemnitz River, Kaßberg is a city quarter that was first developed in the 1850s. In the north of the city, the botanical garden is in 12 hectares and has been redesigned since Reunification. Both Chemnitz’s old and new city halls are combined into one monumental complex in the centre of the city.

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