CHEMNITZ

Chemnitz, also known as "City of Modernity", is a town with many faces. The third largest city in Saxony with about 246,000 inhabitants possesses modern architecture drawing a line to jewels of classical modernism, the Bauhaus school and Art Nouveau. To these belong important treasures like Villa Esche, the houses of Gruenderzeit in the Kassberg district and the redeveloped Schlossberg quarter.

Art and culture are modern: in earlier times with the expressionist artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, who was born in Chemnitz, or the Bauhaus school's icon Marianne Brandt. Today with the Gunzenhauser Museum, home to around 2,500 artworks of classical modernism with one of the world’s largest Otto Dix collections.

Going one’s own way, a new way of thinking and doing anything unusual, makes the city and its people successful. For example the thermos flask or the first mild detergent were invented here. Currently machines and manufacturing plants are being planned and built here, helping production worldwide. The speciality of Chemnitz is developing ideas and manufacturing pieces more precisely, quickly and energy-efficiently.