Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Leipzig, Germany
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7.3 km
93 m
Explore Leipzig in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in LeipzigIndividual Sights in LeipzigSight 1: Oelßners Hof
Oelßners Hof is a residential and commercial complex built around a courtyard in Leipzig's city centre. It was completely renovated between 2012 and 2015.
Sight 2: Schwarzes Hufeisen
The black horseshoe is the name of an office and business house in Leipzig, Nikolaistraße 55 corner Brühl. It is under monument protection.
Sight 3: Museum of Fine Arts
Book Ticket*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.
Wikipedia: Museum der bildenden Künste (DE), Website, Twitter, Facebook, Soundcloud, Youtube
Sight 4: Pfeffermühle
The Leipziger Pfeffermühle is a cabaret ensemble in Leipzig, Germany.
Sight 5: 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.
Sight 6: Jägerhof
The Jägerhof in Leipzig is a complex of buildings between Hainstraße and Großer Fleischergasse, through which the passage of the same name runs. It is a listed building.
Sight 7: 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.
Sight 8: 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
Sight 9: 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).
Sight 10: 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.
Sight 11: Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche
The Reformed Church at Tröndlinring 7 in Leipzig is the place of worship of the Reformed congregation.
Sight 12: 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.
Sight 13: Villersbrunnen
The fountains in Leipzig were originally built as part of the city's water supply and in the 19th and 20th centuries others were added for decorative functions. They are regarded as objects of historical and art historical interest.
Sight 14: 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.
Sight 15: Deutsches Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen
The German Centre for Barrier-Free Reading offers people who are blind, visually impaired and print impaired a wide range of literature to borrow and buy.
Wikipedia: Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde zu Leipzig (DE), Website
Sight 16: 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.
Sight 17: Deutsches Kleingärtnermuseum
The German Allotment Museum is a museum in Leipzig that documents the German allotment garden movement and its history.
Sight 18: 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.
Sight 19: Philippuskirche
The Philippuskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Leipzig's western district of Lindenau. Since 2002 it has been – unlike usual – a church without an associated parish.
Sight 20: Apelstein 35
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.
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