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a very nice corner

Beautiful park, for lingering alone, with children or with parents, or simply for a relaxed ride through.

An information board is also located here.

The oldest part of this ensemble is the Old Bell Tower, which dates back to the Middle Ages (dated 1508). The two bells in the tower are 500 and 700 years old respectively; they are the oldest evidence of Lugau's history. https://www.stadt-lugau.de/webs/index.php?id=149

The town hall in Gersdorf was built in 1894.

They look like oversized bottle caps – but Jan Kummer's "Heimat Ensemble II" is more than just XXL decoration. The round objects are reminiscent of DIY crafts from East German times, repurposed everyday items, and creative solutions to shortages. The resemblance to Mickey Mouse? No coincidence. Three circles, a global symbol. Kummer translates this pop icon into standard-sized, tinny spikes – painted in color, somewhere between an artistic figure and a critique of consumerism. A throwaway product becomes a monument, a memory becomes conceptual art. https://www.zeitsprungland.de/poi/jan-kummer-heimat-ensemble-ii

The 🟣 PURPLE PATH 🟣 is a sculpture trail connecting Chemnitz, the 2025 Capital of Culture, with 38 towns and cities in the region. Numerous artists have contributed works of various kinds, telling a untold story of the region. More information at https://chemnitz2025.de/purple-path/ Various artists "Annaberg Impulse I: Wood" in Lugau City Park Material: Wood "Wood and Stone: Artistic Creation in the Ore Mountains and Central Saxony The crème de la crème of artists from the Ore Mountains and their Czech friends have known each other for decades. They work in an interdisciplinary manner, using different media and materials. As the Annaberg Network, they are now curating sculptures for two exhibitions. Works made of traditional materials, wood, and stone can be seen. Participants include: Milan Bezaniuk, Paul Brockhage, Rolf Büttner, Roland Buschmann, Kurt Gebauer, Steffi Getzlaff, Petr Hladky, Marcel Kabisch, Jitka Kusova, Sebastian Mvller, Christoph Roßner, Wilfried Runst, Adam Rybka, Uwe Schwarz, Jörg Seifert, Thomas Suchomel, Josef Swancar, and Silvio Ukat." The "Annaberger Impuls II: Stone" can be found in the wild plant park in the former "Drei Schwanen" inn in Oederan.

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 history of the region. More information at https://chemnitz2025.de/purple-path/ Jan Kummer "Heimat Ensemble II" in Gersdorf (another group entitled "Heimat Ensemble" is located at the Garagencampus in Chemnitz) Material: fiber-reinforced resin, steel "The group "Heimat Ensemble II" by the painter, object, and conceptual artist Jan Kummer consists of equally sized, round elements reminiscent of enlarged bottle caps. The models for Kummer's sculptures seem to originate from the aimless tinkering in the private sphere of a GDR household, where anonymous everyday materials were transformed into individual objects. The vertically or horizontally assembled or center-folded elements with inward-curved edges and 21 prongs in black, red, blue, and green are reminiscent of Mickey Mouse, arguably the most famous fictional character in the world. In the 1930s, the later world-famous American illustrator and media entrepreneur Walt Disney created these from just three black circles together. Kummer transfers the famous silhouette to the form of patented, DIN-standardized everyday objects. Through playful and ironic exaggeration, allusion, and scaling, disposable products made of thin sheet metal, actually designed for single use, are elevated to permanent works of art. Jan Kummer, born in Weimar in 1965, now lives and works in Chemnitz. In his imagery, he incorporates narrative elements that create connections between a world of memory consisting of presumably fragmented set pieces and the present he observes. With the sculpture group Heimat Ensemble II, the artist cites the idea of home-grown crafts and handicrafts, as well as regional customs. With the motif of remembered self-perception, he also creates a retrospective on the GDR's scarcity society: Everything was tested for its usability, cleverly utilized in a second production cycle, and today, memory becomes art. (Text: Alexander Ochs / Ulrike Pennewitz)