Big mountain parade
Mountain brotherhoods and bands from the Ore Mountains traditionally open the Christmas season - on 30 November, from 1.30 pm, city centre
One of the impressive highlights of the pre-Christmas period in Chemnitz is the 41st Great Mountain Parade through the city centre on Saturday, 30 November, starting at 2 pm.
Once again, around 1,100 participants will present this tradition: around 700 people in uniform and around 400 mountain musicians and mountain singers will be seen in the always impressive procession, opening the Christmas season in the Ore Mountains.
There will be a pre-concert by the Saigerhüttenkapelle Olbernhau-Grünthal and the Singkreis Neustädtel on the square in front of the town hall from 1.30 pm.
The mountain parade will start as usual at 2 pm on the theatre square. The route leads along Karl-Liebknecht-Straße - Richard-Tauber-Straße - Straße der Nationen - Brückenstraße to the Stadthallenpark.
From around 2.30 pm, the individual mountain brotherhoods and bands will arrive on the Stadthalllen forecourt and will be named and greeted by a mountain comrade as they march in.
Mayor Barbara Ludwig, the Saxon Minister for the Environment Thomas Schmidt and the 1st Chairman of the Saxon State Association of Miners', Metallurgical and Miners' Associations, Mining Master Ray Lätzsch, stand together on the podium and receive the passing mining brotherhoods.
The choir, mountain bands and traditional costume bearers then form up for the
final concert.
As in previous years, wheelchair users will be granted access to the front row of the Stadthalle forecourt.