The best city hikes and walks around Mittweida

At a crossroads, this industrial history is located on the footpath. Around a plan, companies are named with address, founding year, and their trade.

The Möbius strip sculpture on Technikumplatz stands for science and good cooperation between the university and the university town with the Zwingerbauhütte Dresden. On the rising Technikumplatz below the main building of the university stands the artwork, a Möbius strip made of sandstone, just over a meter in diameter on a 1.7 meter high oval column - the result of months of work by Hans Seliger, a stonemason apprentice at the Zwingerbauhütte in Dresden. https://www.hs-mittweida.de/newsampservice/hsmw-news/pressearchiv/detailansicht-pressearchiv/aktuell/5554/

The sculpture by Jeffrey James is called „Cumulus“ – named after those cumulus clouds that float in the sky and constantly reshape themselves. But here, at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, the six-ton casting stands like a monument against forgetting. The modular concrete form symbolizes more than just technical skill. It stands for a cosmopolitan technical college that showed humanity even in dark times. In 1939, a note on the notice board helped the Jewish student Gerhard Neumann to flee – from Nazi Germany via China to the USA. There he became an aviation pioneer and Vice President of General Electric. „Cumulus“ – a sculpture of angle, will, and foresight. Stable in the present, shaped by history. https://www.erzgebirge-tourismus.de/purple-path/poi/jeffrey-james-cumulus/poi.html

An access to the Gerhard-Neumann-Bau is the Parkweg between the Carl-Georg-Weitzel-Bau and the Alfred-Udo-Holzt-Bau, which is designed as an Ehrenweg. The special feature of this path is the laying of clinker bricks on which graduates, professors, lecturers, teachers, employees, as well as sponsors, guests and partners of the university can have personal information inscribed. The individual clinker brick can indicate the title, first and last name, for graduates the graduation year, for university members, guests and partners the years of their activity at the university, for sponsors the sponsorship year or period, etc. https://www.hs-mittweida.de/webs/fk1867ev/erinnerungsweg/

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A lovely stretch of path along the Gottesaubach stream

The City Church of Our Lady is not a unified building but a conglomerate of different architectural styles from the 14th century to the present day.

Saxon Post Distance Column: • Erected in 1725 by order of the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong, by Adam Friedrich Zürner in the market square of Mittweida • The royal Polish and Saxon double coats of arms are visible on all four sides • Inscribed with 65 place names and their distances, to an eighth of an hour, on three sides • The column, made of Rochlitz porphyry tuff, was completed in 1725/26 by the Rochlitz stonemason Johann Häßler • Redesigned in 1969 by the Mittweida master stonemason Ernst Böttger, incorporating the original coats of arms • Located on the south side of the market square since 1984 • Restored and moved to the north side of the market square in 2005