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🟣 PURPLE PATH 🟣 "7 colors for a chimney", Chimneyz

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🟣 PURPLE PATH 🟣 "7 colors for a chimney", Chimneyz

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🟣 PURPLE PATH 🟣 "7 colors for a chimney", Chimneyz

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Location: Saxony, Germany

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1. Chemnitz Valley Cycle Path – Chemnitz Castle loop from Bahnhof Küchwaldwiese

31.5km

01:20

190m

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Chemnitztalradweg – Schloßteich Chemnitz loop from Chemnitz-Siegmar

35.5km

01:33

230m

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3. Chemnitz Valley Cycle Path – Chemnitz Castle loop from Bahnhof Küchwaldwiese

26.6km

01:10

180m

Intermediate road ride. Great for any fitness level. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

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May 10, 2025

The 🟣 PURPLE PATH 🟣 is a sculpture trail connecting Chemnitz, the 2025 European Capital of Culture, with 38 cities and towns in the region. Numerous artists have contributed works of various kinds, telling an unknown history of the region. More information at chemnitz2025.de/purple-path

Daniel Buren "7 Colors for a Chimney / Sept Couleurs pour une cheminée"
in Chemnitz, combined heat and power plant on the Chemnitz River
Height: 302 m

"The French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, born in 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris, has made art history since the 1970s with his nomadic practice of "in situ" work, creating a repertoire of images that is both abstract and concrete, yet iconic. Buren uses the same 8.7 cm wide vertical stripes, each one varying in a few colors, to transform squares, rooms, stairwells, or chimneys into works of art through color interventions. Wherever these stripes are, Buren is there, too. Arranged vertically from bottom to top in monochrome rings of aquamarine, strawberry red, yellow-green, sky blue, melon yellow, signal violet, and traffic yellow, the colors have made the nearly 302-meter-high chimney of the now-decommissioned Nord combined heat and power plant in Chemnitz, owned by eins energie in sachsen, visible from afar by day since 2013 and, thanks to an LED illumination system expanded in 2017, also by night. Buren placed his famous vertical stripes around the platform of the surrounding maintenance balconies, like a self-quotation, which also separate the color rings of seven colors for a chimney.
The special aesthetic of the industrial city of Chemnitz inspired many artists, such as the Expressionists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, who grew up in Chemnitz. Buren's work makes it clear from almost every vantage point that Chemnitz is a city of art. And let me reveal a secret: The second color from the top inspired the name of the art and sculpture trail, the PURPLE PATH.

(Text: Alexander Ochs / Ulrike Pennewitz)

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🟣 PURPLE PATH 🟣 "7 colors for a chimney", Chimneyz

1. Chemnitz Valley Cycle Path – Chemnitz Castle loop from Bahnhof Küchwaldwiese

2. Chemnitztalradweg – Schloßteich Chemnitz loop from Chemnitz-Siegmar

3. Chemnitz Valley Cycle Path – Chemnitz Castle loop from Bahnhof Küchwaldwiese

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