Leipzig organizes the opening event for the nationwide day of the open monument 2022 - City of Leipzig

"We look forward to Leipzig - a prospering metropolis with a great innovation spirit, in which the interaction of structural history and future -oriented developments provides exciting insights," said Dr. Steffen Skdelty from DSD at the first preparatory meeting.

This year's motto of the campaign day is "Culture Spur. A case for monument protection". It looks at historical scars, additions and further developments. Leipzig offers numerous starting points for the motto and takes up these perspectives: Monuments of the (eastern) modernity, the Weimar Republic and the Wilhelminian era should be the focus of the program as a host city.

Leipzig presents itself as a metropolis of modernity

in the application Leipzig had already presented itself as the “big city of modernity”. "Leipzig has not only made a name for itself in specialist circles as a successfully renovated city monument. An urban planning monument that has a tough thing: The venerable town hall meets Henselmann's university giants, the bourgeois Gohlis meets the workers' district in the east, the Johannapark on allotment gardens, unanimized factory halls meets the successful renovation of the cotton spinning," says Mayor Burkhard Jung: "As a host city, we would like to present this fullness and an attractive program to the nationwide audience."

organizer can register your memorial

So that interested citizens and visitors in and around Leipzig can look forward to a varied program in the host city, private monument owners, clubs and urban institutions are called to open their monument doors to visitors. The Leipziger and all nationwide organizers can register their historic buildings and sites online at www.tag-des-offenen-denklale.de from the beginning of March to the end of May.

day of the open monument

The day of the open monument has been coordinated by the German Foundation for Monument Protection on the second weekend in September on the second weekend in September. It also enables citizens to access more hidden monuments, which are usually not or only partially accessible to the public. Due to the Corona pandemic, there have been many digital events in the past two years-including several short films with Leipzig monuments and their sponsors. You can still be called up at www.leipzig.de/offenes-demmal.