During the planting festival Aufbruch from 30 March to 6 April, around 600 Chemnitz residents and neighbours planted around 400 apple trees in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture region. 40 organisations entered into forward-looking planting and care partnerships. These include educational institutions, parishes and companies and, of course, people from the neighbourhood. The Planting Festival Awakening of the Chemnitz 2025 main project Living Neighbourhood stands for joint commitment.
The planting festival concluded on Sunday, 6 April with a family festival on the open-air grounds of the Chemnitz Industrial Museum. Seven standard trees of the varieties Alantapfel, Blumberger Langstiel, Engelsberger Renette, Jerseymac, Linda, Lodi and Oberländer Himbeerapfel were planted. Together with the Chemnitz Industrial Museum, decathlon will take care of the young trees for the next twelve years - from watering and pruning to the harvest, which is expected in around four to six years. Decathlon also contributed sports and leisure activities to the festival. The planting helpers worked with Holzkombinat Chemnitz to design name tags for the young apple trees.
During the week-long planting festival, confirmation students, mayor Silke Franzl, pastor Falk Klemm and tree warden Anka Wolf, among others, planted apple trees on the grounds of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St Niklas in Ehrenfriedersdorf.
The Saxon Minister of Justice, Prof. Constanze Geiert, also took part in the Living Neighbourhood project and planted apple trees at Chemnitz Prison together with inmates and the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Altenhain.
Employees from Deutsche Post AG, the VW engine plant, the Parks Department, pupils from the secondary school at the airport, children from the after-school care centre of the cooperation school and volunteers from Chemnitz 2025 took part in the most extensive planting campaign, planting 165 apple trees in Chemnitz City Park together with planting partner BUND.
planting also took place in Augustusburg, in the castle and baroque garden in Lichtenwalde and on the colourful cow farm in Frankenberg. Various companies and communities from the city and region are supporting the apple trees. HOMATEC Industrietechnik's recreational area was enriched with apple trees by employees and class 8a from Schule am Taurastein.
The next Harvest Planting Festival will take place from 19 to 26 October 2025 in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region.
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