 Conference Venue: Chemnitz, Hotel 'Chemnitzer Hof' |
The 10th International Conference on Optics of Surfaces and Interfaces (OSI 10) takes place
in Chemnitz, Germany-Saxony in
the Günnewig Hotel "Chemnitzer Hof".
| City of Chemnitz |
CHEMNITZ - THE CITY OF MODERNITY
Chemnitz, more than 800 years old, is situated in the heart of Saxony. The city is the third-largest in the new Federal States; about 245,000 people
live here. More than 10,000 young people study at the Chemnitz University of Technology.
Fascinating architecture reflects the changing times and spirit of those things which have shaped the city: industrial monuments, redeveloped
Gründerzeit residential quarters such as Kassberg, the Schocken department store, Villa Esche or the city centre, which has been completely modified since
Re-unification, constructed by Helmut Jahn, Hans Kollhoff, and Christoph Ingenhoven, bridge the gap from yesterday to today and tomorrow. The city alone has
invested more than 50 million Euros in the new city centre, investors more than 500 million Euros. Just as famous is the 7.10-metres-high Karl-Marx bust
made of bronze by Lew Kerbel in 1971, locally known as "Nischel" (head).
Probably no other city in Germany fits the description "City of Modernity" quite so well as Chemnitz does. Developed at the time of
Classical Modernism, which still gives impetus to the development of business and science, the influences of the cultural and architectural Modernism
are visible and perceptible.
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