Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Chemnitz, Germany

The Protestant St. Mark's Church on the Sonnenberg, Körnerplatz, was built between 1893 and 1895 according to designs by the Berlin architects Abesser and Kröger in the style of North German Brick Gothic. The double-helmet tower, which can be seen from afar, is striking. The coloured glazing is still preserved in its original form. The organ at that time came from the organ builder Jehmlich from Dresden. The original painting of the walls is only partially preserved. The church has 1350 seats.

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Schillerplatz in Chemnitz is a park in the center of the city center. It received its name in 1859 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Friedrich Schiller and has been expanded according to plan since 1890.

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St. Peter's Church is a Protestant church building in Chemnitz, Germany, which was built from 1885 to 1888 according to a design by the Leipzig architect Hans Enger as a neo-Gothic hall church. The church is located on Theaterplatz and thus in the immediate vicinity of the opera house and the Chemnitz Art Collections.

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Theater Chemnitz is the municipal theater organization in Chemnitz, Germany. Performances of opera, ballet, plays, symphonic concerts, and puppet theater take place in its three main venues: the Opernhaus Chemnitz, the Stadthalle Chemnitz, and the Schauspielhaus Chemnitz. The award-winning opera company has produced a series of rarely performed works, and several German premieres. Its orchestra is named the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie.

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The Chemnitz Art Collections are the art history collections of the city of Chemnitz, whose approximately 65,000 exhibits are spread over several buildings. They can be traced back to bourgeois associations of the 19th century, including the Kunsthütte, which was founded in 1860. In 2001 they were included in the Blue Book. In 2010, the museum was awarded the title of Museum of the Year 2010 by the German section of the International Association of Art Critics AICA, in particular for its development work since 1990.

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The Karl Marx Monument is a 7.10m (23.29ft)-tall stylized head of Karl Marx in Chemnitz, Germany. The heavy-duty sculpture, together with the base platform, stand over 13 meters tall and weighs approximately 40 tonnes. On a wall just behind the monument, the phrase "Workers of the world, unite!" is inscripted in four languages: German, English, French and Russian.

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The Red Tower is the landmark of the city of Chemnitz and its oldest preserved building. It was built towards the end of the 12th century and initially served as a keep to protect the surrounding settlements, later it was the seat of the town bailiff. Presumably, the tower was already integrated into the Chemnitz city fortifications around 1230.

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The Saxonia Fountain, which once adorned Chemnitz's Roßmarkt, has been standing on the newly designed Johannisplatz since the beginning of July 2011. The existing plinth and the top were restored. The bronze figures of the blacksmith and spinner on the sides, as well as the figure of Saxonia, who fell victim to a metal donation during the war, were recast with donations. Instead of the previous two-tiered plinth, the fountain was placed on a single-level pedestal during the reconstruction. According to the chairman of the Saxonia Fountain Association, Peter Fritzsche, the former fence was deliberately omitted during the reconstruction, so that people could approach the fountain and experience it more consciously. The newly cast "Saxonia" is considerably smaller than the original and somewhat simplified in design. For example, the large Saxon coat of arms, which used to explicitly identify the figure as the personification of Saxony.

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The Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz is a natural history museum founded in 1868 in Chemnitz, Saxony. In addition to a collection of over 300,000 exhibits, the museum houses the Sterzeleanum, a historical cabinet, the insectarium and changing special exhibitions. In the large atrium of the DAStietz cultural centre, where the museum is located, is the Petrified Forest, the largest plant fossil in Europe.

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The Chemnitz petrified forest is a petrified forest in Chemnitz, Germany, that is part of the Early Permian Leukersdorf Formation.

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The Protestant town church of St. Jakobi is one of the oldest preserved sacred buildings in the Saxon city of Chemnitz and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Old and New Town Halls.

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The Gunzenhauser Museum is a museum and art gallery located in Chemnitz, the third largest city of Saxony, Germany. It contains 2,459 works by 270 modern artists of the 20th century that have been collected by the art dealer Dr. Alfred Gunzenhauser. The Gunzenhauser Museum was inaugurated in December 2007 in the presence of German President Horst Köhler and is one of the most important museums of modern art in Germany.

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The Provost's Church of St. John Nepomuk is a Roman Catholic church building in Chemnitz, Germany. Today's church was built between 1953 and 1955 according to a design by the Chemnitz architect Willy Schönefeld. The church is located in the southeast of the district of Kaßberg and borders on Reichsstraße and Hohe Straße.

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The list of Stolpersteine in Chemnitz contains all Stolpersteine that were laid in Chemnitz as part of the art project of the same name by Gunter Demnig. They are intended to commemorate the victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Chemnitz.

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The Chemnitz industrial museum is an extensive collection from the Saxon industrial history in Chemnitz and belongs to the Saxon Industrial Museum Zweckverband. The exhibition is located in a former foundry hall of the former machine tool factory Hermann and Alfred Escher AG.

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