Stock Photo - 11 August 2022, Saxony, Stollberg: Thomas Schmidt (CDU, l.), Saxony's Minister of State for Regional Development, and Marcel Schmidt (Freie Wähler), Mayor of the City of Stollberg, talk between historic machines for cooling in the Old Slaughterhouse in Stollberg. The industrial building is now used as an event venue for concerts, workshops and projects. The town, which has a population of around 11,500 and is located on highway 72, has many examples of how millions in federal and state funding have been used to create new buildings or renovate old ones and put them to new uses. Since the beginning of the 1990s, around 6.2 billion euros have flowed into Saxony's cities from the federal and state governments for urban redevelopment. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa. - Stollberg/Saxony/Germany