Overview

• Officials say insolvency at the general contractor and a steelwork subcontractor has pushed the project into crisis.
• Weimer is coordinating with the Federal Construction Ministry and the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning to navigate a legally complex situation.
• No completion date is in sight, five years after the 2020 groundbreaking and well past the original 2019 opening goal.
• The design calls for a large, walkable steel bowl at the reconstructed Stadtschloss, widely nicknamed the “Einheitswippe” though planners prefer “scale.”
• A separate Freedom and Unity monument in Leipzig is moving forward, with a cornerstone ceremony scheduled for October 9.