The city with the monument - 2nd edition
Invitation to the press conference on 1 December, 12.30 pm in the city archive
The second edition of the volume "Die Stadt mit dem Monument" by Karl Joachim Beuchel has been published. The first edition was sold out due to great interest.
The author Karl Joachim Beuchel and the head of the city archive, Dr Paolo Cecconi, will be available to answer questions at a press conference on Friday, 1 December at 12.30 pm in the city archive building, Aue 16.
This book offers a first-hand account of the city's history, as the author helped to shape the development of Karl-Marx-Stadt over two decades, from 1964 to 1984, as the city's planning director and architect. During this time, the course was set that led to the construction of large new housing estates such as the Heckert area, the design of the city centre with the Karl Marx Monument and the modernisation of Brühl and Sonnenberg.
The book is based on memories, notes and documents that the author has analysed in the archives. He spans the period between the post-war situation in 1945 and the fall of communism in 1990 and describes the painstaking process in which our city was given a new face in the conflict between countless concepts and the sober realities. The numerous photos show which buildings of pre-war Chemnitz disappeared irrevocably at that time, but also what new, lasting buildings were created.
The volume can be purchased from the city archives and bookshops at a price of 19.95 euros.