Chemnitz has room. While elsewhere every free meadow, every empty space for some real estate investment disappears, free spaces for culture and encounters become fewer, our city can still be generous. After all, just 30 years ago it was home to 360,000 people. And even if the number of inhabitants has been slowly increasing again for some years now, Chemnitz is by no means a cramped place. An advantage that we usually don’t really appreciate. But now we want to make it a real experience.

We are looking for public places in the city that should definitely be better used or simply well designed. These can be classic squares such as Josephinenplatz, Lessingplatz, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz, but they can also be gaps between buildings, roundabouts, unused meadows in residential areas, horrible central reservations…

Take your pick. Take pictures of them and send them by e-mail (chemnitz2025@stadt-chemnitz.de) or letter to the Capital of Culture Office (Rosenhof 6, 09111 Chemnitz). We want to make a big online voting from all suggestions.

The five public squares with the most votes will be tackled in 2019 together with you. During joint idea workshops, we will clarify on site what is possible and, above all, what can be financed and start with detailed planning, whereby we will also hold you responsible for the implementation. Every project should be developed with the active support of the people of Chemnitz, should bring people together for a beautiful new place in the middle of the district, in the middle of our city: for urban gardening, for sports, for playing, for celebrating, for barbecuing, for resting, for meeting friends, for tobogganing, for splashing around, for enjoying art, for listening to music, for playing theatre, for drinking coffee, for learning, for building a bicycle…

And if we redesign five sites every year in this way from now on, then 25 should actually be ready by 2025. Some perhaps for a long time, others only temporarily – but each one as an offer for encounters and joy, as an expression of the city’s creativity and doer mentality, as a sign of: #2025TogetherOutDoor