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Living and living in Chemnitz

The independent city of Chemnitz is located in the southwest of Saxony, with an area of 221.05 km². With its approximately 246,855 inhabitants, Chemnitz is divided into the localities of Einsiedel, Euba, Grüna, Klaffenbach, Kleinolbersdorf-Altenhain, Mittelbach, Röhrsdorf and Wittgenstein.

These are divided into the Chemnitz districts of Adelsberg, Altchemnitz, Altendorf, Bernsdorf, Borna-Heinersdorf, Ebersdorf, Einsiedel, Erfenschlag, Euba, Furth, Gablenz, Glösa-Draisdorf, Grüna, Harthau, Helbersdorf, Hilbersdorf, Hutholz, Kapellenberg, Kappel, Kaßberg, Klaffenbach, Kleinolbersdorf-Altenhain, Lutherviertel, Markersdorf, Mittelbach, Morgenleite, Rabenstein, Reichenbrand, Reichenhain, Röhrsdorf, Rottluff, Schloßchemnitz, Schönau, Siegmar, Sonnenberg, Stelzendorf, Wittgensdorf, Yorckgebiet and Zentrum.

Neighboring towns and villages around Chemnitz include Hartmannsdorf, Burgstädt, Lichtenau, Frankenberg, Augustusburg, Amtsberg, Burkhardsdorf, Neukirchen, Hohenstein-Ernstthal and Limbach-Oberfrohna.

The city of Chemnitz is located in the Erzgebirge basin and was called Karl-Marx-Stadt from 1953 to 1990. The river Chemnitz got its name from the confluence of the two rivers Zwönitz and Würschnitz in the district of Altchemnitz.

In Chemnitz there are extensive green areas for relaxation, numerous large parks, meadows and forests. There are several nature reserves in the localities, such as the Chemnitzaue near Draisdorf, Um den Eibsee, Am nördlichen Zeisigwald and Am Schusterstein.

Culture and tradition of Chemnitz

Among the most famous landmarks of Chemnitz are the Karl Marx Monument, the Red Tower, the Old Town Hall with adjacent New Town Hall and the magnificent baroque Siegert House on the market square. Other sights and cultural monuments in Chemnitz include the 14th-century St. Jacobi City Church and the late Gothic Castle Church on the Schlossberg with the Schlossberg Museum Chemnitz.

There is also a lot of historic architecture to see in Chemnitz, such as two important Art Nouveau villas, Villa Esche and Villa Koerner, or the Theaterplatz with the King Albert Museum, the neo-Gothic Petri Church, and the modernly designed Opera House and Playhouse. One of the most traditional German orchestras is the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra in Chemnitz.

The Chemnitz Municipal Cemetery has some as historic graves, including the memorial to the victims of the 1945 bombing, the grave site of banker Franz Eduard Kunath and the grave sites of the family of Carl Gottlieb Haubold, who became known as the "father of Saxon mechanical engineering" and the grave site of entrepreneur Emil Oskar Richter.

Infrastructure in Chemnitz

The two freeways A4 (Erfurt-Dresden) and A72, which intersect at the Chemnitz interchange, run through Chemnitz. The Südring and the Cityring around the historic city center of Chemnitz include the federal highways 95, 107, 169, 173 and 174. In the southern direction lies the Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf airfield. Dresden and Zwickau can be reached hourly by regional trains of the Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn. The regional express trains also run to Leipzig main station every hour. Annaberg-Buchholz, Pockau-Lengefeld, Olbernhau, Flöha and Aue can be reached via the Erzgebirgsbahn. For public transport, there are 5 streetcar lines, 25 city bus lines and 27 regional bus lines.