Another section of the Chemnitz Valley cycle path completed
Release of the section from Heinersdorfer Straße to Untere Hauptstraße Wittgensdorf
Tomorrow, Saturday, another section of the Chemnitz Valley cycle path will be opened. The section between Heinersdorfer Straße and Unterer Hauptstraße Wittgensdorf will then be officially open to pedestrians and cyclists. This marks the completion of the last section of the Chemnitz Valley cycle path under the responsibility of the City of Chemnitz. It is 1.7 kilometres long and includes two bridge structures. It runs along the disused Chemnitz - Wechselburg railway line at a width of 2.50 metres.
After the cycle path was largely completed by the end of 2015, the remaining work on the bridges over the drainage ditch of the Chemnitz-Heinersdorfer central sewage treatment plant and the Wittgensdorfer stream was carried out in 2016. These two former railway bridges were renovated at a cost of around 175,000 euros and converted into cycle path bridges.
Construction work began in mid-September 2014. The upgraded section runs from Heinersdorfer Straße to approx. 100 metres before the bridge over the Wittgensdorfer Bach, which means it runs for approx. 1.1 kilometres through the "Chemnitztal" FFH area.
In order to safeguard environmentally relevant interests, the construction work was interrupted from March to July 2015 for the protection of species and ecological construction monitoring was commissioned. The particularly sensitive area of the FFH site was paved with concrete paving and the rest of the area was paved with asphalt with a lightened surface.
The construction costs for this section of the Chemnitz Valley cycle path totalled around 760,000 euros. The Free State of Saxony has subsidised this project with around 660,000 euros.
The company Gunter Hüttner & Co. GmbH from Chemnitz was commissioned to carry out the construction work. The further extension of the Chemnitz Valley cycle path on the former railway line in the direction of Wechselburg is the responsibility of the Free State through the State Office for Road Construction and Transport. Construction has already begun.