ENKlinikum Chemnitz is the municipal hospital of Chemnitz in Saxony. It is run by the non-profit company Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, which the City of Chemnitz wholly owns.
This page is for patients abroad whose doctor or friends have named this hospital, and for anyone looking for a large hospital in eastern Germany. The region also has two university hospitals: University Hospital Leipzig (Universitätsklinikum Leipzig) and University Hospital Dresden (Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden).
About the Hospital: Size, Sites and Status
Klinikum Chemnitz is a large hospital: 1,735 planned beds on three city sites and 25 clinics and institutes. In 2025 it treated about 59,600 inpatients and day patients and about 76,500 outpatients, and with its subsidiaries it employs about 7,400 people. Flemmingstraße 2/4 houses the round-the-clock central emergency department and the delivery suite. Küchwald (Bürgerstraße 2) has cardiology, in a new 160-bed building opened in stages from November 2025, plus lung medicine and radiotherapy. Dresdner Straße 178 has the psychiatric emergency admission for adults and for children.
It is a maximum-care hospital (Maximalversorgung): it takes severe and complex cases, and emergency care runs around the clock. Krankenhaus simply means hospital, while Klinikum usually means a large hospital with many departments; see the article on the German healthcare system. Klinikum Chemnitz is an academic teaching hospital of the universities in Dresden and Leipzig and runs the MEDiC medical degree programme with TU Dresden; how this differs from university hospitals in Germany is explained separately. Its roots go back to hospitals recorded around 1350 and in 1395; today’s company was formed in 1994 from the city’s municipal hospitals.
Departments and Areas of Care
- Innere Medizin I — heart and vascular diseases, intensive care
- Innere Medizin III — blood disorders and cancer, cell therapy
- Innere Medizin IV — lung diseases, allergies, sleep and ventilation medicine
- Innere Medizin V — kidney disease and high blood pressure
- Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie — general and abdominal surgery
- Thorax-, Gefäß- und endovaskuläre Chirurgie — chest and vascular surgery, including catheter procedures
- Neurologie — diseases of the nervous system
- Neurochirurgie — surgery of the brain and spine
- Orthopädie, Unfall- und Handchirurgie — injuries, joint disorders, hand surgery
- Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe — gynaecology and childbirth
- Kinder- und Jugendmedizin — medicine for children and adolescents
- Radioonkologie — radiotherapy
Cardiologists treat heart, circulatory and vascular diseases. Haematologists and oncologists treat blood, bone marrow and lymphatic disorders and cancers of various organs, with stem cell transplants from the patient’s own or donor cells and CAR-T cell therapy. Neurologists treat stroke, Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, dementia and epilepsy. Lung specialists treat asthma, COPD and sleep apnoea; kidney specialists treat acute and chronic kidney disease. Trauma and orthopaedic surgeons treat injuries and fractures of every severity, reconstruct ligaments, replace joints and perform hand surgery, including reattaching severed fingers.
The children’s hospital covers newborn intensive care, paediatric cardiology, haematology and oncology; a separate clinic provides children’s surgery and urology. The maternity unit also handles high-risk pregnancies and, with the children’s hospital, forms a perinatal centre (Perinatalzentrum Level I). The cancer centre, Onkologisches Centrum Chemnitz, is certified to German Cancer Society (DKG) requirements: the OnkoZert institute first confirmed this on the society’s behalf in 2014, and the centre is audited every year. The breast and gynaecological cancer centres hold their own DKG certificates. Certified in the trauma network of the German Trauma Society (DGU), the trauma centre has the highest level, Überregionales Traumazentrum. The stroke unit has ten beds, and CT, MRI, vascular procedures and neurosurgery are available around the clock.
Location: Getting to Chemnitz
Chemnitz lies in Saxony, between Leipzig and Dresden, and the nearest international airports are Leipzig/Halle and Dresden. The hospital’s sites — Flemmingstraße, Küchwald and Dresdner Straße — are in different parts of the city, so the exact address of the department comes with the invitation.
Your Stay at the Hospital
During the stay, patients choose their meals with the ward’s service staff every day, within the prescribed diet. Elective services (Wahlleistung) cost extra: some clinics have new or refurbished premium rooms, the package adds a daily menu choice, TV, radio, telephone, newspapers and Wi-Fi, and treatment by the head of department (Chefarztbehandlung) is billed under the official GOÄ fee scale. Private or supplementary insurance or the patient pays for them, and they can be booked in advance or on admission. Visiting is generally possible between 10 am and 8 pm; children under 14 visit only with an adult, and people with an acute infectious illness must stay away.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Klinikum Chemnitz located?
Klinikum Chemnitz has three sites in different parts of the city. Flemmingstraße 2/4 has the round-the-clock central emergency department and the delivery suite; Küchwald, at Bürgerstraße 2, houses cardiology, lung medicine and radiotherapy, among others; Dresdner Straße 178 has the psychiatric emergency admission. The invitation gives the department’s address.
Is Klinikum Chemnitz a university hospital?
No. Klinikum Chemnitz is a municipal hospital wholly owned by the City of Chemnitz. It is linked to universities in another way: as an academic teaching hospital of the universities in Dresden and Leipzig and through the MEDiC degree programme it runs with TU Dresden. Its level of care is maximum care (Maximalversorgung), with emergency admission around the clock.
Does Klinikum Chemnitz treat cancer?
Yes. The haematologists and oncologists of Innere Medizin III treat blood disorders and tumours, including with stem cell transplants and CAR-T cell therapy, and Radioonkologie provides radiotherapy. The specialties work together in the cancer centre, Onkologisches Centrum Chemnitz, certified to German Cancer Society requirements since 2014. The hospital decides from the documents whether it can take a case.
How AlenMed Arranges Treatment at Klinikum Chemnitz
AlenMed translates the patient’s medical documents and scans into German and sends them to the relevant clinic of Klinikum Chemnitz. The hospital decides itself whether it can take the case and issues a cost estimate (Kostenvoranschlag). The page on arranging treatment in Germany describes the whole process.
Payment goes directly to the hospital, which sends the visa invitation after the deposit (see visa support). An interpreter attends the consultations, and the patient is met at the airport. The company’s office is in Munich, its partner hospitals are spread across Germany, and Klinikum Chemnitz is not one of them; if another hospital suits the case better, we will say so.
This material is for reference only and is not an offer. The treatment plan is decided by the doctor at a face-to-face consultation.