Hoyerswerda - a centre of GDR architecture: all types of prefabricated buildings can be found there. Nowhere else in Saxony is there a comparable variety of large panelled buildings. From the mid-1950s to the completion of the large housing complexes in the 1980s, the new town was a single building site. It was designed on the drawing board as a socialist residential city for the workers of the Schwarze Pumpe power plant. However, when it closed in 1990 and the workforce moved away, the town began to shrink rapidly and entire housing complexes were "demolished" again. Since then, Hoyerswerda has undergone profound structural change, but is also full of ideas for the future thanks to a far-reaching urban development concept.
The bicycle excursion takes place in cooperation with the ZfBK - Centre for Building Culture Saxony and, in addition to the current urban development, focuses on the special features and construction phases of the residential complexes in Hoyerswerda's Neustadt district, which we will explore by bicycle.
- Start: 9.45 am, Hoyerswerda railway station (old town)
- End: approx. 6.30 pm, Hoyerswerda railway station (Old Town)
- Cost: €20 per person
- Please register at anmeldung@zfbk.de with your name and telephone number
