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Planting Festival: Harvest

Autumn 2025

Illustration: Mathilde Schliebe

Illustration: Mathilde Schliebe

The PLANT FESTIVAL on the theme of ‘harvest’ brought together apple tree plantings and offered recipe exchanges, events on the art of gathering, and the city's longest apple pie parade. The planting action week as part of the GELEBTE NACHBARSCHAFT (LIVING NEIGHBOURHOOD) project concluded with the International Pomologists' Meeting in cooperation with the Chemnitz Museum of Natural History.

When?19 to October 26, 2025

Where? Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region

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"City and forest" planting festival

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This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.