Explore the city
Discover Chemnitz
Get to know its neighbourhoods, choose a museum and make room for a day trip.
Culture & history
Villa Esche: architecture and planning a visit
Explore the city
Seeing the Karl Marx Monument in its city setting
The bronze head makes more sense when you step back and look at the street and buildings around it.
Explore the city
Exploring Kaßberg as a residential district
Culture & history
Making room for the industrial museum
Outdoors
A circuit of Schloßteich
Culture & history
Planning an outing to Burg Rabenstein
For your visit
Itineraries
Getting to know Chemnitz on a first day
Itineraries
Putting together a weekend in Chemnitz
Plan your visit
Using trams and buses during a city visit
Itineraries
Planning a rainy day in Chemnitz
Time for the city
Culture & history
Culture & history
Planning a first visit to smac
Saxon archaeology inside the former Schocken department store, with time for objects as well as the building.
Culture & history
Visiting the art collections at Theaterplatz
Plan a visit at Theaterplatz around the art you want to spend time with, rather than a checklist of rooms.
Culture & history
City history at Schloßbergmuseum
City history, historic rooms and individual objects provide several ways into a visit to Schloßbergmuseum.
A pause outdoors
Outdoors
Outdoors
Exploring Zeisigwald as an urban forest
Marked paths and traces of quarrying give Zeisigwald a connection to both woodland and city architecture.
Outdoors
Planning a break in Küchwald
Let Küchwald be a destination for time outdoors, with an optional activity rather than a packed schedule.
Outdoors
Choosing a woodland walk near Rabenstein
Choose a marked route in Rabensteiner Wald that fits the group and the way you arrive.
Day trips
Topics
Day trips
Planning an outing to Augustusburg
Choose a particular exhibition or tour, then leave room to understand the hunting lodge in its landscape and town setting.
Day trips
Planning a day trip to Freiberg
Use the two main squares to frame a day with either the cathedral or terra mineralia as its main focus.
Day trips
Visiting Lichtenwalde palace and park
Treat the designed garden as a substantial part of the day, and choose any indoor visit around the actual conditions.
Day trips
A day trip from Chemnitz to Zwickau
Give the outing a main subject—music, motoring history or the old centre—rather than trying to fit every museum into one day.