On Friday, 11 April at 2 pm, Mayor Michael Stötzer will ceremonially hand over the "Mittelpunkt" cultural centre at Hofer Straße 35 to the Mittelbach local council and Mittelbach primary school for use.
Having been vacant for some time, the title of "European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025" enabled the extension and conversion of the Mittelbach primary school annex into a multifunctional event space. As a so-called public square, the "centre point" is to be made available as a meeting place in the town centre and for clubs, thus providing space for exchange and encounters. At the same time, the construction of the necessary second escape route for the school building was also made possible. Its construction will allow the space-consuming and disruptive scaffolding stairs in the schoolyard to be removed in the second quarter, meaning that pupils will have more yard space at their disposal again.
Two multi-purpose rooms with an integrated kitchen have been created in the "centre" itself. The two new rooms can also be used by the school for events. There will be barrier-free access to these event rooms in future.
Furthermore, there is now a new kitchen for catering with separate access from the stairwell, an additional work and craft room and a teaching materials room in the basement.
325,000 euros from the Capital of Culture budget were available for the design of the "Mittelpunkt" cultural centre public square.
The planning services were provided by the Keller architecture firm from Chemnitz. The construction of the building shell was carried out by the construction company Voitel from Crimmitschau. A total of 23 trades were involved in the realisation.
Background:
The public squares are the result of intensive participation by the people in the districts and localities. The stakeholders from the city's neighbourhoods put a lot of thought into the project and, together with their citizens, selected a public space to be redesigned as part of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. Each of the eight areas of the citizens' platforms and each of the eight incorporated localities received a maximum of 325,000 euros. For example, a rest area on the Chemnitz Valley cycle path, a themed circular hiking trail around the village of Kleinolbersdorf-Altenhain and a new reception pavilion in Küchwald were realised.
The public squares are among the 30 intervention areas of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. They are the city of Chemnitz's urban development project for the Capital of Culture, which now involves an investment of over 60 million euros.
www.chemnitz.de/interventionsflaechen