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 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.
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 Johanniskirche was founded in the 13th century outside the city walls and dedicated to St John the Baptist. The church tower is home to the oldest bell in Chemnitz dating from 1475.
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