Path construction work in Chemnitz City Park completed after devastation caused by flooding
Invitation for media representatives to the on-site appointment for Friday, 2 August, 11:30 a.m., Stadtpark, Otto-Werner-Garten
The representatives are hereby invited to an on-site meeting in Chemnitz City Park on Friday, 2 August at 11:30 a.m. - the meeting point is in the area of the Otto Werner Garden in the City Park (see location sketch). The road construction work completed around the Otto Werner Garden in the Stadtpark will be presented - a significant contribution to the maintenance of this traditional green space. As a result, the area, which is popular with walkers, sports enthusiasts and passers-by alike and was badly affected by the recent flooding, has now been made accessible again. The grounds are now in full bloom and looking their very best.
Birgit Burkhardt, landscape architect at the Parks Department, and Kerstin König, head of green space maintenance and personal services, will be on hand to talk to representatives of the media in the city park.
With the invitation to the on-site visit, the Parks Department is also taking up a topic that is often at the centre of public interest and would like to draw attention to the connection between urban greenery and the possibilities for its care and maintenance. Chemnitz is a green city and the employees of the green space maintenance department in the City of Chemnitz's Green Space Office are working hard to provide the green oases with the necessary care and to do justice to the natural cycle. Maintaining green spaces means working with and on living organisms - and that also means that mown grass - for example at Bodelschwinghplatz - or weeds that have just been removed - for example in the perennial beds in the Otto Werner Garden, on the Schloßberg, in the new castle pond area or in the summer flower bed at the Stadthalle - also grow back quickly. In Chemnitz City Park, the paths in the Otto Werner Garden (approx. 2,140 m²) had only just been repaired a few days before the devastation caused by the water. As a result of the damage, some 50-centimetre-deep flow channels, washed-out material and an additional 30 tonnes of Ostrava path surface had to be backfilled and rolled again.