The City Centre

Chemnitz has an individual style with a vibrant, new city centre with many architectural highlights. The big stores and shopping malls designed by the world-famous architects Helmut Jahn, Hans Kollhoff and Christoph Ingenhoven invite people to spend time shopping in the city centre. More than 66,000 square meters of retail space have also been created in the new heart of the city over the last five years. Restaurants, bistros, bars and clubs are a magnet for night owls in the city and the surrounding region.

Chemnitz provides attractive apartments and other real estate. More than 80 percent of Chemnitz residents are satisfied with their housing and their living environment. This figure exceeds the national average. High marks have also been awarded for the city's medical care, shopping facilities, the ease by which the city centre can be reached and its public transport links.

Popular residential areas include the reconstructed city centre, Europe's largest Art Nouveau district, the Kassberg, and the rural district near the Oberrabenstein reservoir.

And the cost of living and real estate prices are comparatively low in Chemnitz.

With a total of more than 1000 hectares of parks, woodland and fields, each resident has more than 60 square meters of green belt available in statistical terms. This makes Chemnitz the "greenest" of all the large Saxon cities.