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Currently (February 21st) there's still a lot of snow and some ice. But finally, some elevation gain!

It's a work of art from "Purple Path" and a beautiful viewpoint overlooking the landscape. So if you're planning to drive or hike the "Purple Path," you should definitely take it with you.

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On a square floor plan, eight elements of varying heights and colors are stacked at equal angles to form a tall tower. Frank Maibier documented the formal and color models for the sculpture "Ornaments" during excursions through the eight villages of the municipality of Lichtenau. https://chemnitz2025.de/purple-path/frank-maibier-ornamente/

The 🟣 PURPLE PATH 🟣 is a sculpture trail that connects Chemnitz, the 2025 Capital of Culture, with 38 towns and cities in the region. Numerous artists have contributed works of various kinds, telling an unknown story of the region. More information at https://chemnitz2025.de/purple-path/ Frank Maibier "Ornaments" at the Oberlichtenau town exit towards Chemnitz, Lichtenau Material: steel, concrete base "On a square floor plan, eight elements of varying heights and colors are stacked at equal angles to form a tall tower. The artist Frank Maibier, born in 1959 in Werneuchen near Berlin and living in Chemnitz, documented the formal and color models for the sculpture "Ornaments" on forays through the eight villages of the municipality of Lichtenau. As a sculptural homage to the joyful stylistic pluralism of garden fences and their owners, Maibier quotes their ornaments in his sculpture and has them implemented by a master metalworker from the municipality. Maibier, who often explores the limits of stability and balance in his sculptures, installations, and works on paper in order to question the principles of material laws and norms in both a concrete and figurative sense, dedicates his sculpture to Lichtenau's locally rooted spirit of resistance against the boredom of everyday objects. Property fences made of metal scraps are among the secret trademarks of private everyday culture in East Germany and Eastern Europe. They testify to the ingenuity of compensating for the shortage of products from the former socialist planned economy by repurposing and reusing leftovers, often from state-owned enterprises, in the private sector. With imagination and skill, garden fences with stylized plant tendrils, concrete-abstract patterns, underwater scenes, or flower bouquets were created from stamped slugs, rebar, gears, or brake discs. With their richness of form, they can still hold their own today against the lack of aesthetics of DIN-standardized fence irons from hardware stores and confidently convey their individuality into the present. (Text: Alexander Ochs / Ulrike Pennewitz)

A choir tower church with a Romanesque core. A recessed choir and apse. A high octagonal turret. Inside, a remarkable winged altar from 1521, Baroque paintings, and a floating baptismal angel are worth seeing.

Very beautiful old town and thus also the center of Mittweida.

Suspension bridge with a view of the castle, at the end there is a map for orientation