Music is in the air

On 8 May 2021, the Day of Urban Development will take place in many cities and municipalities across Germany. Due to the pandemic, it will not take place in its usual form, but with many digital, creative formats - from virtual (city) tours and virtual discussion rounds to digital city rallies. This is also the case in Radebeul. It's worth taking a look online at>>www.radebeul.de/staedtebaufoerderung.html

The Alte Post in Radebeul West at Meißner Straße 285 is one of the most striking buildings in the neighbourhood alongside Kötzschenbroda railway station. It was built in 1916/1917 and put into operation as the Imperial Post Office. The post office was closed to the public in 2000 and has been completely unused since 2018.

After around a decade of searching for a location for the Meißen district music school, the Alte Post is now being revitalised from its slumber.

The aim is to achieve a long-term improvement in learning conditions for the 1,200 children from Radebeul who make music, and the music school administration will also find a new, urgently needed home here.

The construction work is expected to be completed in 2023/24 so that the music students can move into their new quarters from late summer 2024.

It is hoped that the music school and the West District Centre will then complement and enhance each other perfectly. Pupils will benefit from the spacious, modern premises and excellent transport links.

The virtual tour takes visitors on a journey through the historic walls and shows the current state of the building, from the basement to the floor, and gives a brief outlook on its future use. In the Radebeul-West redevelopment area, urban development funding is used, which is provided jointly by the federal government, the state and the local authority in equal shares, and with whose support the Kötzschenbroda and Radebeul-Ost redevelopment areas have already been successfully realised in Radebeul.

As a joint task, urban development funding is a central pillar of urban development policy in Germany. Since 1971, it has supported cities and municipalities in meeting structural, economic, social and ecological challenges. More than 9,300 total measures were subsidised in the period from 1971 to 2020 - in 3,900 municipalities nationwide.