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The current Saxon online newspaper. Current news from art and culture of today from Saxony Dresden Chemnitz Leipzig

An office for pop culture is to support music creators in Saxony. (Archive image) / Photo: Jonas Walzberg/dpa

Saxony now has an office for pop culture

The music scene in Saxony is to be strengthened by a new office for pop culture and music. Since October, the office has acted as a central point of contact for music creators and institutions, the Ministry of Culture announced. The aim is to network ..

The Saxon Museum Prize goes to the Kohlewelt mining museum in the Ore Mountains. (Archive photo) / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Award for "Kohlewelt" museum

The mining museum in Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains, which reopened as the "Kohlewelt" at the beginning of the year, has won the Saxon Museum Prize. It is an impressive tourist attraction with offers for different target groups, said Culture Minister ..

The reconstruction of the palace chapel in Dresden's Royal Palace with its striking vault is complete (archive photo).  / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

Dresden castle chapel shines in new splendor

The Dresden Residenzschloss has its venerable palace chapel back. What began as a simple shell in GDR times is now an architectural masterpiece and combines old tenancy with modern technology. According to the Saxon Ministry of Finance, the chapel wi ..

More than 100 traders and craft businesses will be exhibiting at the Pulsnitz gingerbread market until Sunday / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

Crowd at the gingerbread market in Pulsnitz

If you like gingerbread, you can have a sweet tooth all year round. At the opening of the Pulsnitz gingerbread market, lovers of the high-calorie pastries stocked up for Christmas and the rest of the year. Saxony's Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ba ..