In a joint council meeting on Wednesday, 14 November at 6 p.m. at the Chemnitz Exhibition Centre, 24 cities and municipalities along the Chemnitz model want to seal their support for Chemnitz’ application for the title of European Capital of Culture 2025.

It is concrete: Amtsberg, Annaberg-Buchholz, Aue, Augustusburg, Burgstädt, Burkhardtsdorf, Flöha, Frankenberg/Saxony, Hainichen, Jahnsdorf/Erzgebirge, Lichtenau, Limbach-Oberfrohna, Lößnitz, Mittweida, Neukirchen/Erzgebirge, Niederdorf, Niederwiesa, Niederwürschnitz, Oelsnitz, Olbernhau, Pockau-Lengefeld, Stollberg/Erzgebirge, Thalheim/Erzgebirge, Zwönitz.

Urban regions based on intermunicipal cooperation are models for the future. Thus, the cities and municipalities linked by the Chemnitz Model Transport Project have agreed to redefine the historically grown cultural region. The application process, the preparatory years as well as the event year 2025 are intended to further expand and sustainably consolidate the cooperation – also beyond the year 2025.

The ideas and projects jointly developed in the context of the Capital of Culture application should lead to a strategy for the cultural region which, on the one hand, promotes its own strengths and, on the other, strengthens its external perception, especially at European level.

There are also already the first concrete plans for a cooperation on the Museum Night and the Days of Industrial Culture.

Mayor Barbara Ludwig: “The application for the Capital of Culture connects. Never before have we worked together with so many cities and communities around Chemnitz on joint strategies for an attractive region. With the means of culture, we want to create occasions to become aware of the common history and identity and at the same time to develop a radiance far beyond the state borders.

 

<Representatives of the media are cordially invited to report on this impressive commitment of the rich cultural region of Chemnitz with its half a million inhabitants.