As part of Chemnitz Capital of Culture 2025, the main project GELEBTE NACHBARSCHAFT is focussing on the topic of 'City and Forest' in preparation for the event. From Sunday, 3 November 2024 to Sunday, 10 November 2024, Chemnitz residents and residents from the Capital of Culture region will plant, care for and celebrate apple trees. The week-long planting festival begins with a musical, informative and mobile programme in the Hartmannfabrik. The programme includes walks through the Küchwald forest and to the Chemnitz Botanical Garden. In the following week, planting will take place in schools, in Chemnitz prison and in apple variety gardens in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region. Finally, there will be a winter festival for the whole family at the Jutta Müller Ice Sports Centre.
The programme:
Sunday, 3 November 2024 // Hartmannfabrik (Fabrikstr. 11, 09111 Chemnitz)
- 12:00 pm // Hartmannfabrik
LASCA FOX Sustainable music entertainment on the LASCA FOX MOBIL. An emission-free live concept on a bicycle trailer that serves as a stage. Both the bike and the stage are powered by batteries charged by solar panels.
- 13:00 // Hartmannfabrik
Welcome by Stefan Schmidtke, Dr Sten Gillner and Dr Julia Naunin
- 13:30 - 15:00 // Hartmannfabrik
The tree within us - short yoga classes with Jeanette Quegwer
Tree resonances - an offer of understanding by ANGELA AUX
Smoothie bike - homemade fruit drinks on the bike
fruit and vegetable art carving with Phi Nga
Table talks with Reiner Amme, apple expert in the apple park Hilbersdorf | Jörg Braune, Radio T e.V. | DJ xBRAYNE & glamnitz | Pierre Pätzold, Studentenwerk Chemnitz Zwickau/ Ernährungsrat Chemnitz e.V. | Prof. Dr. Ronny Rößler and Dr. Thorid Zierold, Museum of Natural History Chemnitz | Philipp Salzmesser, Holzkombinat | Andreas Streich, Head of Green Space Maintenance/Forestry Department | Dr Stefanie Troppmann, European Regional History Chemnitz University of Technology | Sören Weißflug, Hammerfrieden Allotment Garden Association
- 15:00 // Hartmannfabrik
Walks through the Küchwald forest to the botanical garden
Forest change: An excursion through the climate changes in Küchwald Park with Andreas Streich, Head of the Green Space Maintenance/Forestry Department of the City of Chemnitz
Petrified forest: Excursion with Prof. Dr Ronny Rößler, Director of the Chemnitz Museum of Natural History
- 16:00 // Botanical Garden
Did man make the forest? Guided tour through the forest communities with Dr Sten Gillner
Meeting point: Botanical Garden main building, Leipziger Straße 147, 09114 Chemnitz
- 17:00 // Botanical Garden
Closing with LASCA FOX
Visit "Plants - Pictures" in the main building
Monday, 4 November 2024
- 9:00 - 16:00 // Hiking trail Stausee - Wildgatter (Oberfrohnaer Straße 165, 09117 Chemnitz)
Planting campaign with Eissport und Freizeit GmbH, Rabenstein Hans Carl von Carlowitz primary school, the Rabenstein independent citizens' initiative and the punkt West children's and youth centre
- 17:00 // VHS Chemnitz (Moritzstraße 20, 09111 Chemnitz)
Fruit tree pruning course for planting partners - facilities after registration at www.vhs-chemnitz.de
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
- 9.30 am - 12.30 pm // DPFA Regenbogenschulen (Emilienstraße 50, 09131 Chemnitz)
- 3.00 pm // Kleinolbersdorf parish garden (Ferdinandstraße 95, 09128 Chemnitz - OT Kleinolbersdorf-Altenhain)
Planting campaign in the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Kleinolbersdorf
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
- 14:00 // Astrid-Lindgren-Grundschule Frankenberg (Max-Kästner-Straße 21, 09669 Frankenberg/Sa)
Planting campaign in the Capital of Culture region
Thursday, 7 November 2024
- 14:00 - 17:00 // Apple garden Am Stadtpark (Dittersdorfer Str. 35, 09120 Chemnitz)
Planting event with BUND
- 14:30 // TAG Wohnen & Service (Street Usti Nad Labem 303, 09119 Chemnitz)
Planting event organised by TAG Wohnen together with Aktiv-Treff Kappelkiste
Friday, 8 November 2024
- 10:00 a.m. // Chemnitz Prison (Thalheimer Str. 29, 09125 Chemnitz)
Planting campaign with the Christuskirch parish in Chemnitz Reichenhain
CLOSED EVENT
- 14:30 // Campus TU Chemnitz (Reichenhainer Str. 33b, 35, 37 and Vettersstr. 52-72)
Planting event with the Studentenwerk Chemnitz Zwickau at the campus day care centre
Campulino, in the UniPaRadieschen permaculture garden and on the meadows behind the halls of residence
Saturday, 9 November 2024
- 9:00-16:00 // Apple Park Hilbersdorf (Dresdner Str. corner of the path to KGV Fuchsberg, 09131 Chemnitz)
Planting campaign with the Chemnitz school model
- 11:00 a.m. // Hilbersdorf Apple Park
Planting campaign with the Dschoy company
- 9:00 a.m. // Hilbersdorf Apple Park
NABU planting campaign with the Lichtenwalde citizens' initiative
- 14:30 // Bandbüro (Mühlenstraße 94, 09111 Chemnitz)
Planting campaign with mini-concert and barbecue event and with the tradespeople from Brühl Spangel Tangel, Radio T e.V., onHair, Salute e.V.
Sunday, 10 November 2024
- 10:00 - 18:00 // Jutta Müller Ice Sports Centre (Wittgensdorfer Str. 2a, 09114 Chemnitz)
Planting event as part of the winter festival
