Overview
- A European Bergparade, communal Christmas singing and a "Feierabend!" show at the Karl‑Marx‑Monument capped the closing weekend.
- The city counted about 36,000 people in the center on the final day, including roughly 22,000 for the parade, around 6,000 for the singing and about 4,000 at the evening show.
- Across the year, roughly 2,000 events and 260 projects drew an estimated total exceeding two million visits, according to program director Stefan Schmidtke.
- Police said the closing day proceeded without significant incidents.
- A symbolic handover to Oulu, Finland, and Trenčín, Slovakia, is scheduled for Dec. 5, with legacy programming in Chemnitz being mapped through mid‑2026.