Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Leipzig, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 8.1 km
Ascend 114 m
Descend 116 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 Leipzig

Sight 1: Schwarzes Hufeisen

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Schwarzes Hufeisen Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The black horseshoe is the name of an office and business house in Leipzig, Nikolaistraße 55 corner Brühl. It is under monument protection.

Wikipedia: Das schwarze Hufeisen (DE)

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Goldene Hand

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Goldene Hand Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Goldene Hand (DE)

225 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Geschwister Scholl-Haus, Institut für Kunstpädagogik

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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.

Wikipedia: Geschwister-Scholl-Haus (Leipzig) (DE), Website

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Demokratieglocke

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The democracy bell is a monument that is located on Augustusplatz in Leipzig.

Wikipedia: Demokratieglocke (DE)

190 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: City-Hochhaus

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City-Hochhaus Frank Vincentz / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: City-Hochhaus Leipzig (EN)

421 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Dresdner Hof

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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.

Wikipedia: Dresdner Hof (Leipzig) (DE)

313 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Jahrhundertschritt

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Jahrhundertschritt Jürgen Langguth / Copyrighted free use

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.

Wikipedia: The Step of the Century (EN)

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Goethedenkmal

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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).

Wikipedia: Goethedenkmal (Leipzig) (DE), Url

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: 17. Juni 1953

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17. Juni 1953 UnbekanntUnknown / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

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.

Wikipedia: Aufstand des 17. Juni (DE)

170 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Barthels Hof

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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.

Wikipedia: Barthels Hof (EN)

386 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Bach-Museum Leipzig

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The Bach Museum Leipzig is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It is part of the Bach Archive Leipzig in the Bosehaus am Thomaskirchhof.

Wikipedia: Bach-Museum Leipzig (DE), Website

147 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Treppenturm

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The Golden Flag was a commercial building in Leipzig, Germany. After its destruction in World War II, only its hexagonal stair tower was reconstructed. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Goldene Fahne (DE)

261 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Rathausbrunnen

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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.

Wikipedia: Fountains in Leipzig (EN), Website

3 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: Christian Friedrich Henrici Picander

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Christian Friedrich Henrici Picander

Christian Friedrich Henrici, writing under the pen name Picander, was a German poet and librettist for many of the cantatas which Johann Sebastian Bach composed in Leipzig.

Wikipedia: Picander (EN)

443 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Ez-Chaim-Synagoge

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Ez-Chaim-Synagoge

The EZ Chaim Synagogue was a synagogue on the property Apels Garden 4 in Leipzig.

Wikipedia: Ez-Chaim-Synagoge (DE)

492 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 16: Museum in der Runden Ecke

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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

597 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 17: Deutsches Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen

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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

1212 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 18: Deutsches Kleingärtnermuseum

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The German Allotment Museum is a museum in Leipzig that documents the German allotment garden movement and its history.

Wikipedia: Deutsches Kleingärtnermuseum (DE), Website

1297 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 19: Capa-Haus

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Capa-Haus Cowboy / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Capa House (EN), Website

1393 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 20: Apelstein 35

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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.

Wikipedia: Apel-stones (EN)

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