Planting Festival: Harvest

Autumn 2025

Illustration: Mathilde Schliebe

Illustration: Mathilde Schliebe

The Harvest PLANTING FESTIVAL will focus on planting apple trees and host recipe swaps, events on the art of gathering fruit, and the longest apple cake parade in the city. The week of planting campaigns in the framework of the project LIVING NEIGHBOURHOODS will conclude with the International Pomologists Meeting in cooperation with the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz.

When? October 19, 2025 to October 26, 2025

Where? Location to be announced

News

20/03/2025

Plant festival in spring

11/11/2024

Planting festival "City and Forest": GELEBTE NACHBARSCHAFT plants, cares for and celebrates apple trees

23/10/2024

Joint planting campaign with Sachsenlotto and the Chemnitz-Zwickau Student Union

17/10/2024

"City and forest" planting festival

19/04/2024

LIVING NEIGHBOURHOOD planting festival in April 2024

27/02/2024

Cooperation with Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Chemnitz West in the Living Neighbourhood project

12/09/2023

All grounds are playgrounds

Events

19. Oct '25

Sunday

12:00 pm 6:00 pm

Planting Festival 'Harvest': AmA - All with apple festival - at the opening of the 'Harvest' planting festival

Chemnitz, DAStietz

Education Excursion …

20. Oct '25

Monday

5:00 pm 8:00 pm

Planting Festival "Harvest": care tips and tricks for planting partner facilities

Chemnitz, Volkshochschule

Elderly people Families …

21. Oct '25

Tuesday

10:00 am

Planting festival "Harvest": Plant in Adelsberg

Chemnitz, Adelsberg primary school

Elderly people Families …

21. Oct '25

Tuesday

11:00 am

Planting festival "Harvest": Plant in Chemnitz-Kappel

Chemnitz, "Georg Götz" support centre

Elderly people Families …

21. Oct '25

Tuesday

2:00 pm

Planting festival "Harvest": Planting in Niederwiesa

Niederwiesa-Lichtenwalde, behind the August-Bebel-Straße car park

Elderly people Families …

21. Oct '25

Tuesday

2:30 pm 8:00 pm

Apple tree campaign and reading with Stefan Tschök

Thalheim/Erzgeb.

Elderly people Education …

21. Oct '25

Tuesday

2:30 pm

Planting Festival „Harvest": Planting in Thalheim

Thalheim, orchard meadow "Rentners Ruh"

Elderly people Families …

21. Oct '25

Tuesday

5:00 pm 8:00 pm

Planting Festival "Harvest": care tips and tricks for planting partner facilities

Chemnitz, Volkshochschule

Elderly people Families …

23. Oct '25

Thursday

5:00 pm 7:00 pm

Plant festival 'Harvest': blown away, carried away, cracked open

Chemnitz, Botanical Garden

Exhibition Education …

24. Oct '25

Friday

Planting festival 'Harvest': International Pomologists' meeting

Chemnitz, Event hall at DAStietz/Museum für Naturkunde

Exhibition Education …