Resistance is mounting against the planned demolition of two prefabricated buildings in Hoyerswerda. The citizens' initiative "Mitmachstadt" is demanding the preservation of the two buildings in Wohnkomplex (WK) I, the first neighborhood to be built in Neustadt. However, the municipal housing association wants to take the largely empty blocks off the market. Managing Director Steffen Markgraf has set the fourth quarter of 2024 as the target date for this. The State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Dresden is now also looking into the project. Numerous citizens have written to the authority with a request to examine "the worthiness of protection of residential complex I as a historical architectural ensemble".
The construction of the new town of Hoyerswerda began in 1957. The signatories of the letter stated that the first experimental and trial buildings of industrial prefabricated construction were built in WK I in particular. "The district is a spatial composition and the original cell of the new town, you don't touch it," says Olaf Winkler from the "Mitmachstadt Hoyerswerda" initiative. Although the city council even decided on a "demolition taboo for WK I" in 2018, a block of flats has since disappeared there.
