Explore the industrial roots in the former Lugau-Oelsnitz coal mining district

From the train station forecourt with fountain, walk along Bahnhofstraße towards the city center until the turnoff to Tunnelweg. Opposite was the former power plant; some buildings are in secondary use and an information board explains the significant historical importance. At the end of Tunnelweg you reach a grassy area with a mine workers’ changing room below which there is a mine water measuring station. Via a small path between gardens, you reach a railway crossing and return to Bahnhofstraße, continuing towards the city center until the next crossroads. Slightly right and immediately left into Walther-Rathenau-Straße. At the end, an information board explains the history of home textile workers, the time before coal was discovered in the district. From here you can see the lettering "Schocken" on the founding building of the department store chain. After this building, turn right down Alte Staatsstraße. Here on the right is the Bauhaus-style department store extension with explanatory boards. Continuing along Alte Staatsstraße, three boards on an open space recount the formerly lively "Meisterhausviertel." Opposite, the sculpture "Space-Time Diagram" dramatically illustrates the ground subsidence caused by mining. Behind it you enter the charming Mittelgasse lined with half-timbered houses, then briefly left and right to an impressive building, the former miners' cultural house, today’s town hall. Follow Innere Neuwieser Straße out of town, slightly uphill to the junction with Pflockenstraße. Here, where the greatest ground subsidence occurs, is the sculpture "Time Vortex." Turn left along Pflockenstraße to reach the Mining Museum. Circumnavigate it up to Turleyring and turn onto a miner’s path called the "Cableway." Via Nansenstraße, Untere Hauptstraße, and Kiesweg, you reach a spoil heap. Along it, you can already recognize the "Concordia Settlement," which you follow up to the old mining complex. One of the two originally existing headframes there has been converted into a residential building. Opposite are typical miners’ houses, with street art on the southern facade of the lowest building vividly illustrating tradition. Back on Badstraße, cross the Oelsnitz Equator and immediately turn right to ascend to the large school building. You circle halfway and turn into a field path leading to two ponds recultivated for the state garden show. Further uphill you reach today’s Citizen and Family Park with a new graduation tower, emerging from the state garden show area. However, the original structure as a coal cart collection station is still evident through existing railway relics like tracks, buffer stops, signal boxes, etc. Many small and large information boards document this. A bridge leads you back to the train station forecourt as the starting point.