Chemnitz school model arrives at new home
Move-in ceremony at Stollberger Straße 25 on 28 June - City invests 6.38 million euros in site on Kapellenberg
All 420 pupils of the Chemnitz school model are attending lessons in the renovated and newly built school building at Stollberger Straße 25. Grades 5 to 10 moved in first after the winter holidays. At the beginning of June, grades 1 to 4 also began their lessons there. On 28 June, the school will celebrate its official move-in ceremony from 6 p.m. with teachers, pupils, parents, friends and interested parties.
Mayor Barbara Ludwig is delighted that the community school has been given new premises: "The Chemnitz school model has written a success story and wants to develop further. With the new school building, it is now possible to accommodate more pupils and teach them in good conditions. The classrooms do justice to what the Chemnitz model stands for: good, lively and friendly places to learn together and from each other."
Headmaster Jens Berger is delighted with the new building on the Kappellenberg: "I would like to thank the city councillors who supported the new school location across all parties. The new building is also an example of constructive cooperation with the city authorities. This enabled us to contribute our thoughts and ideas to the building design. We collected these over many years in newly built European schools in order to be able to support modern pedagogy spatially."
The conversion of the former speech therapy school at Stollberger Straße 25 into a school building for the Chemnitz school model included the refurbishment of the building, which was built in 1971, and the construction of an extension. The city of Chemnitz invested 6.38 million euros in the new school location.
The main building with an area of approx. 3,600 m² houses 28 classrooms and three group rooms as well as the administrative areas, staff rooms and six after-school care rooms. The new 1200 m² extension houses five classrooms, a large assembly hall, canteen with kitchen and the school library. The building was made barrier-free with a lift. A total of 31 companies were involved in the construction work.
The refurbishment on Stollberger Straße had become necessary because the building at Charlottenstraße 52 in Gablenz was in a very poor structural condition and the available space had become too small for the Chemnitz school model. After the Free State refused to support the new building project on Heinrich-Schütz-Straße with funding, an alternative solution was found in the building of the former speech therapy school. The decisive factors in choosing the building were its central location, good public transport connections and the large, green site.