Lodz is the second-largest city in Poland after Warsaw and the centre of the Polish textile industry.

Besides the textile industry, the metal, machine construction, electronics, chemical and food industries are also important.

The twin town has 850,000 inhabitants and is a university town.

2005/2006 - German Polish year

The Lord Mayor of Lodz visits Chemnitz

In 2005, the Lord Mayor Dr Peter Seifert welcomed his counterpart Jerzy Kropiwnicki to a workshop in Chemnitz town hall. The purpose of the discussion was, amongst other issues, the structuring of the cooperation in the municipal, commercial as well as cultural and touristic area. Afterwards, both of the town leaders visited the Chemnitz travel and tourism fair in the Chemnitz arena. On the occasion of this consumer fair the twin towns of Chemnitz, Ljubljana, Lodz, Mulhouse, Ústí nad Labem and Tempere presented their tourist range of products on a collective stand.

Within the framework of the German Polish year 2005/2006, Germany and Poland are extending the many years of close integration of the civil societies and the intensive collaboration between the two countries with a multitude of events, initiatives and projects. The German Polish year is under the sponsorship of both the heads of state Horst Köhler and Aleksander Kwasniewski. The town of Chemnitz which has maintained close cooperative links since 1974 to the second-largest industrial town of Poland, Lodz, also participates in this bilateral collaboration.