The Old Synagogue of Chemnitz was inaugurated in 1899. It operated until its destruction during the Night of Broken Glass in 1938. The building, designed by Wenzel Bürger, had a Neo-Romanesque style with an eight-sided crossing dome. Today, a stele commemorates the place where the historic synagogue once stood.
An itinerary of Jewish Chemnitz is available at http://www.jewchemnitz.de/en/tour1.html
The Neue Synagoge Chemnitz or “New Synagogue of Chemnitz” was completed in 2002. A community centre had been functioning at this place since 1961 until the synagogue was built. Its construction provided the city with a place of worship for the Jewish community after the destruction of the Old Synagogue in the violent November pogroms of 1938.
The Gothic St. Jacob's Church is one of the oldest buildings in Chemnitz. It was built in several stages between 1350 and 1412 on the foundations of an older Romanesque church. In 1945, the church was almost completely destroyed and was rebuilt until 1974 for the exterior and 2009 for the interior.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Pauli, or Church of the Cross, was built in 1935-1936 as part of the St. Jakobi Kreuz parish. The building was destroyed during the bombing of the city on the night of 5th March 1945. It was rebuilt in the following years with several modifications. The façade and exterior were rebuilt in the same style it originally had. The interior was interior was redesigned by Chemnitz architects Laudeley and Kornfeld.
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