Green Zitty project theme weeks: City, country and rivers

How do we shape Zittau's future? The Green Zitty project is taking shape.

Begin 11. May 2025 - Ganztägig
End 01. June 2025 - Ganztägig

From 11 May to 1 June 2025, the Allgemeiner Unternehmerverband Zittau und Umgebung e.V., the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences and the Fachverband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau Sachsen e.V., with the support of the Zittau Municipal Museums, are organizing a theme week with an exhibition, discussions and specialist lectures on the topic of Green Zitty 2032+, the future vision for sustainable urban development in Zittau.

Venues
  • Baugewerkeschule - Theaterring 1
  • Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences House XV - Lander 3 Natural Fiber Center - Hochwaldstraße 14
  • Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences House Z XII- Mandauhöfe - Äußere Oybiner Straße 14/16
  • Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences House Z IV - Large Lecture Hall - Theodor-Körner-Allee 16
Permanent exhibitions

Baugewerkeschule
11.05.-01.06. 2025
City, country & rivers. How do we shape Zittau's future? -Green Zitty2032+
Opening hours: Thursday to Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm and during events

Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Haus Z IV, Theodor-Körner-Allee 8
Roll-up exhibition by the Heinrich Böll Foundation: "Alles im Fluss!? Water in the crisis"

Opening of the theme weeks

Location: Baugewerkeschule
Speakers: Franziska Schubert (MdL), Lord Mayor Thomas Zenker, Thomas Krusekopf

Workshop/lecture: Garden experience - inner-city/private green spaces

Location: Baugewerkeschule
Speaker: Manfred Hansel - spokesperson for the "Green in the City" initiative

Children's academy "Shaping Zittau together - What do we need for a liveable city of the future?" - from the perspective of young people

Location: Baugewerkeschule
Speaker: Axel Keul, Sächsischer Galabauverband. Please register at i.hirt(at)zittau.de

Workshop for adults "Shaping Zittau together - What do we need for a liveable city of the future?" - from the perspective of the citizens

Location: Baugewerkeschule
Speaker: Axel Keul, Sächsischer Galabauverband

Lecture with discussion "Sustainable heat supply - challenges, solutions and examples"

Location: Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Building Z IV
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Workshop/lecture: Sustainable building

Location: Baugewerkeschule
Speaker: Daniel Neuer, architect

Workshop/discussion open to the public Expert exchange on sponge city concepts and blue-green infrastructures BDZ Leipzig, HTW

Location: Baugewerkeschule

Speakers:

  • Prof. Dr. Jakob Hildebrandt, HSZG
  • Rainwater Agency Berlin Hybrid connected
  • Dr. Jakisch, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
Workshop/lecture "A look over the garden fence"

Location: Baugewerkeschule
Speakers: Jens Freiberg and Jan Rohleder

Guided tour: trees - traffic safety - monument protection

Location: Grüner Ring Meeting point Baugewerkeschule
Speaker: Bernd Heinrich, Städtische Dienstleistungsgesellschaft Zittau

Workshop: Renewable raw materials - what can our Upper Lusatia region achieve

Venue: Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, House XV - Lander3-Hall
Speaker: Matthias Tirsch, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences

Please register at i.hirt(at)zittau.de

Workshop: Renewable raw materials - what can our Upper Lusatia region achieve

Venue: Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, House XV - Lander3-Hall
Speaker: Mathias Tirsch

School laboratory "Neisse, Mandau, Eckartsbach - How good is our water?"

Location: Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Z XII-Mandauhöfe
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Fester, for students in grades 5-12.
Please bring water samples
Please register at i.hirt(at)zittau.de

Presentation of Zittau area concept for energy generation

Location: Baugewerkeschule
Speaker: Matthias Matthey, Head of Urban Planning Zittau

Excursion and discussion

Location: Treffpunkt Baugewerkeschule

Zittau in the climate focus: Adapting to a new reality
Speaker: Jakob Maercker, THINK - Thüringer Institut für Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz GmbH

Data and analyses on climate development and its locally noticeable effects
Moritz Dieterich, Zittauer Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH

Central exhibition event

Venue: Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, ZIV building, Audimax

Closing event of the theme weeks with Conrad Clemens, Saxon State Minister for Culture, Lord Mayor Thomas Zenker, Thomas Krusekopf and the following specialist lectures:

  • Climate change and consequences for the use of woody plants in the city of the future
    Prof. Hartmut Balder, Berlin College of Technology
  • Urban tree habitat - a refuge for bees & co.
    Dr. Susanne Böll, Bavarian State Institute for Viticulture and Horticulture
  • Trees and shrubs in the context of climate change and biodiversity
    Mayor Thomas Zenker
    Klaus Körber, Bavarian State Institute of Viticulture and Horticulture
Lecture The emergence of the Zittau ring promenade as an urban ensemble

Location: Baugewerkeschule
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jos Tomlow

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Photo: M.A. Antje Pfitzner
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Antje Pfitzner
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Office of University Development and Communication
02763 Zittau
Theodor-Körner-Allee 16
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