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The Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig in Leipzig is a German art museum. It was established in 1848 as an initiative of the citizenry, initially in the Leipzig Bürgerschule as the first interim. From 1858 to 1943, the Picture Museum was housed in its own collection building on Augustusplatz. After a further interim period from 1945 to 2003, the museum's holdings have been housed in the new museum building in Katharinenstraße since 2004. With over 10,000 m2 of exhibition space, it is one of the largest exhibition venues in Germany. The museum is run by the City of Leipzig.
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The Leipzig Panometer is an attraction in Leipzig, Germany. It is a visual panorama displayed inside a former gasometer, accompanied by a thematic exhibition. The current theme is "New York 9/11". The Panometer was created in 2003 by the Austrian-born artist Yadegar Asisi, who coined the name as a portmanteau of "panorama" and "gasometer". He opened another Panometer in Dresden in 2006. His panoramas are also displayed in Berlin, Pforzheim, Wittenberg, Hanover and Rouen.
3. Lindenfels Westflügel
The west wing Leipzig is an international production center for figure theater in Leipziger Hähnelstraße 27. The Lindenfels Westflügel e. V. is the owner of the building and sponsoring association of the theater. In addition to maintaining and renovating the property, the aim of the initiative is to implement an internationally oriented event location in the west wing. Since 2003, theater performances, concerts, exhibitions and performances have been held in the building once built as a ball house. The focus is on international figure theater. The house acts as a venue and production center, offers workshops and also works on the encounter of theory and practice. Since 2012 there has been the culture Froelich & Herrlich on the ground floor, which is open every Friday and at events. It is based on the oven tube manufacturer, who in the meantime used the building to store oven pipes. The revenue of the bar will benefit the west wing's work, they are operated by volunteers. Friendly artists offer cultural programs.
4. Alter Johannisfriedhof
The Alter Johannisfriedhof is the oldest burial ground in the city of Leipzig, Germany. It began in 1278, as part of the Johannishospital in Leipzig, a leper hospital. It was later attached to the Johanniskirche, which was destroyed in World War II. In 1536 it became the common burial ground for the city of Leipzig, and expanded several times. It was also re-modeled in the style of the Camposanto in Pisa, a popular style of cemetery in Germany. In 1680 and 1805 the graveyard was expanded by the additions of sections three and four respectively, then the fifth and the final extension took place between 1827 and 1863. 1883 saw its last burial.
5. Barthels Hof
Barthels Hof is a former trade court building complex in Leipzig in Germany, located in the borough Mitte. It is the last “through courtyard” that was preserved almost in its original condition. That means, the carts drove in, the goods were unloaded, and the carts drove out - without turning around. The horses were stabled in the suburbs. Later, from 1893 on, only samples of the goods were shown in the trade fairs and made to order. The Barthels Hof stretches from the market square to Kleine Fleischergasse and is now one of the city's most important sights. Today, it is used for a restaurant and some small shops.
6. 17. Juni 1953
The uprising of 17 June 1953 is the name given to the events in the GDR, in the course of which a wave of strikes, mass demonstrations and political protests occurred in the days around 17 June 1953. Triggered by various causes, primarily the sometimes brutal and ruthless construction of socialism for many citizens, as well as repressive measures by the SED regime, the anti-Stalinist uprising extended to large parts of the still young state. In a conflagration, political, economic and social demands were made, including the resignation of the government, free elections and the release of all political prisoners.
7. Dölitzer Schacht
The brown coal deep construction pit Schacht Dölitz was a lignite mine in the Leipzig district of Dölitz and is the last testimony of lignite civil engineering in central Germany. Known as "shaft Dölitz" in the vernacular, the complex was operated almost through 1895 until 1959. The last coal was officially funded on June 13, 1959. The daily systems with a conveyor scaffolding, shaft house, conveyor machine space and steam boilers as well as the new sorting have been preserved. These buildings are listed as a "technical monument shaft dölitz" and are part of the Mitteldeutsche Strasse of the lignite.
8. Gustav-Adolf-Denkmal
Gustav II Adolf of the House of Wasa was King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632 and one of the most important figures in Swedish history and the Thirty Years' War. Through reforms and his military-political actions, he made a significant contribution to giving Sweden a hegemonic position in northern Europe, which lasted until the beginning of the 18th century. His intervention in the Thirty Years' War in Germany, motivated by the assertion of this hegemonic position, prevented a victory for the imperial Catholic camp of the Habsburgs and thus also secured the existence of German Protestantism.
9. Eventpalast
The Betonhalle is a building on the Old Exhibition Grounds in Leipzig, Germany. It was created for the International Building Exhibition (IBA) in 1913 and already bore this name at that time. In its seventy-year history as the exhibition hall of the Technical Fair, it was given the number 12 in the 1930s and the number 16 in the last numbering. Used as a venue from 2006, it was called Volkspalast until 2010 and Pantheon Leipzig until 2012. Since then, it has been the event palace. It is the oldest building on the site and is a listed building.
10. Knauthainer Mühle
Mills in Leipzig have been detected since the Middle Ages. They were water mills and they were all west and near the city. The operating water was introduced by mill ditches from the flood -endangered Auge area of Pleißen and White Elster. Since hydropower was the most important energy source until the 19th century, the mills served not only as grain mills, but also to drive different other trades. The regulation of the military and drop trenches and their care offered a certain flood protection.
11. City-Hochhaus
City-Hochhaus is 36-story skyscraper in Leipzig, Germany. At 142.5 m (468 ft), it is the tallest multistory building in Leipzig and is located proximately of the eastern part of the inner city ring road in Leipzig's district Mitte. The tower was designed by architect Hermann Henselmann in the shape of an open book, and built between 1968 and 1972. It followed Henselmann's idea to cap central places in cities with a prominent tower, such as the Jen-Tower in Jena and Fernsehturm in Berlin.
12. Monarchenhügel
At 159 metres above sea level, the Monarch Hill is the second highest natural elevation in the Leipzig city area after the Galgenberg in Liebertwolkwitz at 163 metres. It is located in the southeast of the city, east of the Meusdorf district in an area that belongs to the Liebertwolkwitz district and is largely built-up. It bears a monument commemorating the Battle of Leipzig, when the three Allied monarchs watched the battle unfold from here and learned of Napoleon's retreat.
13. Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum
The German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1884 as Deutsches Buchgewerbe-Museum, is the world's oldest museum of its kind, dedicated to collecting and preserving objects and documents as well as literature connected with the history of books, including paper, printing techniques, the art of illustration, and bookbinding. The museum is housed in a modern €60 million annex to the German National Library in Leipzig built in 2011.
14. Lange Lene
Lange Lene is the name given to a residential building in the Probstheida district of Leipzig, Germany. The building was built from 1966 to 1968 in prefabricated construction, has ten floors and four staircases. With a length of 333 metres, Lange Lene is Leipzig's longest residential and tenement building. The building has the address Lene-Voigt-Straße 2–8. The street and apartment block are named after the Saxon dialect poet Lene Voigt (1891–1962).
15. Capa-Haus
The Capa House is a building in the Lindenau quarter of Leipzig, Germany at Jahnallee 61. It is named after the American war reporter and photographer Robert Capa, and is the location where Capa took The Picture of the Last Man to Die of the United States army soldier Raymond J. Bowman, who was killed there two weeks before the end of the Second World War in Europe. The images became internationally known when they were published in Life magazine.
16. Floßplatz
The raft site [ˈflɔsˌplat͡s] – pronounced by "short O" [ɔ] in Leipzig – is the remnant of a larger historical complex that for centuries served to supply the city of Leipzig with firewood, but also with building timber. It owes its name to its function as an urban stacking and selling place for the timber rafted across the Elster and Pleiße. In its history, it was therefore sometimes called Holzplatz or Churfürstlicher Holzplatz.
17. Marienkirche
St. Mary's Church in Leipzig-Stötteritz is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the district of Stötteritz in Leipzig, Germany. It was built in 1702/03 as a single-nave hall church in the Baroque style, making it the oldest building in the district. Inside the listed church is a triptych created around 1480 in the environment of Hans Pleydenwurff, which is considered the most important work of late Gothic panel painting in Leipzig.
18. Torhaus Schloss Dölitz
The Dölitz Gatehouse is the architectural remnant of an aristocratic residence, Dölitz Castle in the village of Dölitz, which today belongs to Leipzig. Large parts of Dölitz Castle and with it the gatehouse were built in the last third of the 17th century. The gatehouse contains a pewter figure museum, whose collection of about 100,000 pewter figures is one of the three largest open to the public in the world.
19. Kirche Gottscheina
The Gottscheina Church is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in the Gottscheina district of Leipzig, Germany. It stands in the middle of the village, slightly elevated against the old Rundanger and as the southern end of the later cul-de-sac extension of the village. It is surrounded by the cemetery, which has a rammed earth wall, and together with it enjoys monument protection.
20. Fürstenhof
The Hotel Fürstenhof is the oldest luxury hotel in Leipzig. The original building Löhrs Haus at today's Tröndlinring 8 dates back to 1771, and since 1890 it has been operated as a hotel – combined with several conversions and extensions. Since 2018, the hotel has been owned by Vicus Group AG, and it was also a member of the Leipzig Hotel Alliance. The hotel has been closed since March 2021.
21. Matthäikirchdenkmal
St. Matthew was a church in the old town of Leipzig. During its history it had several names and functions. As a church of the Franciscan order, built in 1488, it was known as Barfüßerkirche and Heiliggeistkirche. It served as a Lutheran church, known as Neukirche, from 1699. A new congregation formed in 1876 and named the church Matthäikirche. The building was destroyed in a bombing in 1943.
22. St. Martin
The Plaußig Church is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in the Plaußig district of Leipzig, Germany. It stands in the centre of the former street village next to the former manor. To the south, the wooded terrain slopes slightly down to the Parthe. The church is a listed building, including the surrounding cemetery and the war memorial on it.
23. Kirche Hohen Thekla
The Hohen Thekla Church is an originally Romanesque religious building built in the 12th century on the Kirchberg in Thekla, a district of the city of Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony. The church of Hohen Thekla – together with the mountain church of Beucha and the church of Panitzsch – is commonly referred to as one of the "Three High Priests" in the Leipzig area.
24. Bayerischer Bahnhof
Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof is Germany's oldest preserved railway station, located in Leipzig, Germany, in the southeastern part of the district Mitte. The station was first opened in 1842 for the Leipzig–Hof railway by the Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company, later taken over by the Royal Saxon State Railways and operated as the Saxon-Bavarian State Railways.
25. Stadtarchiv Leipzig
The Leipzig City Archive documents the history of Leipzig with evidence since the Middle Ages in the form of documents, files, business books, newspapers and pamphlets, maps and plans, as well as photos and postcards. With its holdings, it is one of the most important municipal archives in Germany. His duties also include keeping the city chronicle.
26. Reclam-Museum
The Reclam Museum is a book museum in the Leipzig Graphic Quarter, Kreuzstraße 12. It includes an exhibition of around 10,000 booklets, books etc. from Reclams Universal Library from its beginnings in 1867 to the present. It is the only museum and the most comprehensive collection of its kind on publications by the Reclam publishing house.
27. St. Lukas-Kirche
St. Luke's Church is a Protestant church in the east of Leipzig in the center of the district of Volkmarsdorf. The 71-metre-high tower, crowned with a pointed helmet, is the district's landmark, which can be seen from afar. Since 2015, the Old Lutheran St. Trinitatis parish in Leipzig has been using the sacred building of the SELK.
28. Geschwister Scholl-Haus, Institut für Kunstpädagogik
The building at Ritterstraße 8–10 in Leipzig was built between 1908 and 1910 as the seat of the first German business school on one of the oldest plots of land owned by the University of Leipzig, the Great Princes' College. The building was designed by Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947), the co-founder of the Deutscher Werkbund.
29. Erholungspark Lößnig-Dölitz
The Lößnig-Dölitz Recreation Park is one of the youngest and largest parks in Leipzig. It was built on a site under which underground lignite mining was once carried out. The park is an extensive meadow area consisting of individual trees and groups of trees and interspersed with water areas with different adventure areas.
30. UT Connewitz
The UT Connewitz is the oldest still preserved lighting theater in Leipzig and one of the oldest Germany. It is located at Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße 12 in Connewitz. The first film demonstration took place on Christmas Day in 1912: The crime film was given the black cat, 2nd part, a short silent film directed by Viggo Larsen.
31. Versöhnungskirche
The Church of Reconciliation is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Leipzig-Gohlis, on the corner of Franz-Mehring-Straße 44 / Viertelsweg, near the Krochsiedlung. It was built from 1930 to 1932 according to the design of the Leipzig architect Hans Heinrich Grotjahn in the style of New Objectivity and is a listed building.
32. Pfarrkirche Liebfrauen
The Church of Our Lady in Leipzig-Lindenau is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Philipp Neri in the deanery of Leipzig. It is located on the southern border of Lindenau at Karl-Heine-Straße 112 near Leipzig-Plagwitz railway station. The building, built in neo-Romanesque style, is a listed building.
33. Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University
The Museum of Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig is a museum in Leipzig, Germany. It is located on Johannisplatz, near the city centre. The museum belongs to the University of Leipzig and is also part of the Grassi Museum, whose other members are the Museum of Ethnography and the Museum of Applied Arts.
Wikipedia: Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University (EN), Website
34. Schillerhaus
The Schillerhaus is a small former farmhouse in the Leipzig district of Gohlis. Friedrich Schiller lived on the upper floor of the house in the summer of 1785. He worked here on the 2nd act of Don Carlos, edited the Fiesco and wrote the first version of the poem "An die Freude", which he later completed in Dresden.
35. Dr.-Güntz-Park
The Güntz-Park is a park of about three hectares in the southeast of Leipzig between Güntzstraße and Schönbachstraße. According to the municipal city structure of 1992, the park belongs to the district of Stötteritz, but is located on the former Thonberg corridor. That's why another name is Thonberg Park.
36. Goethedenkmal
The Goethe Monument in Leipzig is a bronze statue standing on a high pedestal on the Naschmarkt in front of the Old Stock Exchange, which depicts Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) as a young man in reference to his almost three years of study in Leipzig. It was created by Carl Seffner (1861–1932).
37. Monument to the Battle of the Nations
The Monument to the Battle of the Nations is a monument in Leipzig, Germany, to the 1813 Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations. Paid for mostly by donations and the city of Leipzig, it was completed in 1913 for the 100th anniversary of the battle at a cost of six million goldmarks.
38. St. Gabrielskirche
St. Gabriel is a Roman Catholic church in the Wiederitzsch district of Leipzig, Germany. It is a church in the Catholic parish of St. Georg Leipzig Nord in the deanery of Leipzig. Its address is Georg-Herwegh-Str. 22, 04158 Leipzig. Due to its extraordinary architecture, it is a listed building.
39. Gedächtniskirche
Gedächtniskirche Schönefeld is a Lutheran church in Schönefeld, now part of Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. The former village church was built in style from 1816, replacing a previous building destroyed by fire. It was named Gedächtniskirche in 1916 when it became a memorial to fallen soldiers.
40. Peterskirche
Old St. Peter's Church is a Lutheran parish and church in the old town of Leipzig, Germany. The present church building, in Gothic Revival style, was erected from 1882 onwards at the Gaudigplatz, and also serves as a concert venue. It replaced a former building at a different location.
41. Genezarethkirche
The church of Paunsdorf – since 1946 Genezareth Church Paunsdorf – is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig-Paunsdorf. Together with the Kirchgemeinden Baalsdorf-Mölkau and Sellerhausen-Volkmarsdorf, the Paunsdorf church belongs to the “Kirchspiel im Leipzig Osten”.
Wikipedia: Genezarethkirche (Leipzig-Paunsdorf) (DE), Website
42. Ehem. Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke
Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke GmbH was a company based in Leipzig from 1935 to 1948, which belonged to the Auto-Union Group. The MiMo produced Junkers aircraft engines under licence and was Auto Union's third-largest plant after Horch in Zwickau and the Siegmar plant near Chemnitz.
43. Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal
The Heinrich Heine Monument in Leipzig is one of the first monuments erected in the city after World War II. It was inaugurated on the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. The material comes from the base of the Victory Monument on the market, which was dismantled in 1946.
44. Botanischer Garten Leipzig
The Leipzig Botanical Garden is a 3.5-hectare botanical garden maintained by the University of Leipzig and is located at Linnéstraße 1, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It is the oldest botanical garden in Germany and among the oldest in the world, and open daily without charge.
45. Großer Blumenberg
Großer Blumenberg is the name of a residential and commercial building in Leipzig, Germany. The current building is the work of the architect Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868). It is one of the few surviving testimonies of classicist architecture in the centre of Leipzig.
46. Goldene Hand
The House of Golden Hand in Leipzig is a residential and business building at Nikolaistraße 16. The name refers to the representation of the house sign above the entrance, a golden hand. The house, which is built in the style of late classicism, is a listed building.
47. Museum in der Runden Ecke
The Memorial Museum in the "Round Corner" is a museum about the history, structure and working methods of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) in the GDR, located in the former headquarters of the District Administration for State Security on Dittrichring in Leipzig.
Wikipedia: Gedenkstätte Museum in der „Runden Ecke“ (DE), Website
48. Ev.-Luth. Kirche zu Wiederitzsch
The Wiederitzsch Church is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in the Wiederitzsch district of Leipzig, Germany. Its Romanesque parts date back to the 12th century. It stands on the site of the former cemetery and is a listed building.
49. Drei Könige
The Haus Drei Könige at Petersstraße 32/34 in Leipzig is a commercial building that was one of the inner-city exhibition halls until 1990. With 2500 m² of exhibition space, it was one of the smallest. It was used to exhibit shoes at the Leipzig trade fairs.
50. Österreicherdenkmal Lößnig
The Austrian monuments in Leipzig are four monuments of the same kind, which are identical to the inscriptions, from 1913, which recall the successful participation of Austrian troops in the battle of the nations of Leipzig. Another former was in Markkleeberg.
51. Freund und Feind im Tod vereint
The Nordfriedhof is a public cemetery run by the city of Leipzig, located at Berliner Straße 125–127 in the district of Eutritzsch between Hamburger Straße, Theresienstraße and Maximilianallee, directly adjoining the smaller Old Jewish Burial Ground.
52. Andreaskapelle
St. Andrew's Chapel is an 11th-century church building in the Knautnaundorf district of Leipzig, Germany. It is the oldest surviving ecclesiastical space on Saxon soil and the oldest surviving building in Leipzig since the incorporation of Knautnaundorf.
53. Jahrhundertschritt
The Step of the Century is a bronze sculpture that was created by Wolfgang Mattheuer in 1984. It is considered one of the most important works of art in the GDR at the time of the division of Germany and is a parable of the turmoil of the 20th century.
54. Park an der Etzoldschen Sandgrube
The Park an der Etzoldsche Sandgrube is a park in the southeast of Leipzig with a memorial to the University Church of St. Pauli, which was blown up in 1968. On city maps, you will also find the designations Freizeitpark Südost and Freundschaftspark.
55. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche zu Eutritzsch in Leipzig is the Protestant church building in Leipzig-Eutritzsch. The church is more than 700 years old and was extensively remodelled around the year 1500. It is located at Gräfestraße 16 and is a listed building.
56. HTWK Leipzig Wiener Bau Fakultät Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
The Städtische Gewerbeschule Leipzig was a higher part-time school. Numerous name changes, connections with other institutions as well as level increases and profile adjustments finally led to today's Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK).
57. Academy for Visual Arts
The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The school has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media art.
Wikipedia: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (EN), Website
58. Stephanuskirche
The St. Stephen's Church of Mockau is the Evangelical-Lutheran sacral building in Leipzig's district of Mockau. The church is the oldest building in the village, and it has been named Stephen's Church in honor of the martyr Stephen since 1926.
59. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. He opposed some anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust.
60. Haus Pommer
The Pommer house is a listed residential and studio building from the 19th century, which is located on the corner of Hillerstrasse 9 and Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 69 in the Leipzig Bachviertel. It was the Pommer family's headquarters.
61. Apelstein 3
The Apel-stones, named after the writer Theodor Apel from Leipzig who commissioned them, mark important events during the Battle of Leipzig. There are 50 in total. They were sculpted by A. F. Aster, and put up between 1861 and 1865.
62. Naturkundemuseum
The Natural History Museum in Leipzig is a natural history museum in the city of Leipzig, Germany, located at the northwest corner of the Inner City Ring Road. The museum contains the insect collection of Alexander Julius Reichert.
63. St. Laurentius
St. Laurentius is the Roman Catholic Church in Leipzig's district of Reudnitz. It stands in Stötteritzer Straße 47 and is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Maria Magdalena Leipzig-Ost in the Deanery Leipzig.
64. Könneritzbrücke
The Könneritz Bridge spans the White Elster and connects the Leipzig districts of Plagwitz and Schleußig along the course of Ernst-Mey-Straße. It is named after the former Saxon Minister of Finance Leonce von Könneritz.
65. Richard-Wagner-Denkmal
The Richard Wagner Memorial in Leipzig was unveiled in 2013 to mark the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner (1813-1883). It was created by Stephan Balkenhol using the base designed 100 years ago by Max Klinger (1857-1920).
66. Hôtel de Pologne
The Hôtel de Pologne is a former hotel built between 1847 and 1848 in Leipzig, Hainstraße 16–18. At the time of its construction, the thirteen-axis building was the largest hotel in the city with 130 rooms.
67. Rabensteinplatz
Rabensteinplatz is a green space in the eastern suburbs of Leipzig, Germany. Historically a place of execution, it was transformed into a green space in the 19th century. Rabensteinplatz is a listed building.
68. Dresdner Hof
The Dresdner Hof in Leipzig is a former trade fair building on the corner of Neumarkt and Kupfergasse. The majority of the house served as a retirement home until 2022. The Dresdner Hof is a listed building.
69. Russische Gedächtniskirche
The St. Alexi Memorial Church of the Russian Honor is the Russian Orthodox Church in Leipzig, corner of Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 51a/Semmelweissstraße near the Deutsche Bücherei. It was built in 1912/13.
70. Museum für Druckkunst
The Museum of the Printing Arts Leipzig, the traditional city of books and publishing, is a museum that documents older printing techniques. It is located on Nonnenstraße in Leipzig's Plagwitz district.
71. Haus Leipzig
The Haus Leipzig described here refers to a building at Elsterstraße 22–24 in Leipzig's western suburbs, which has served as a venue for concerts, balls, theatre and cabaret performances since 1946.
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