Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Leipzig, Germany

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 the Leipzig-Plagwitz train station. The building, built in neo-Romanesque style, is a listed building.

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The Philippuskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig's western district of Lindenau. It has been a church without associated parish since 2002.

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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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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.

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The Musikalische Komödie is an operettas and musicals theatre in Leipzig. Its venue is located in the Lindenau district in the Haus Dreilinden, which is often referred to as the "Musical Comedy" itself. It is one of the three sections of the Oper Leipzig. However, it has its own ensemble with soloists, choir, ballet company and orchestra. Because of this and its own venue, it is perceived by the public as an independent cultural institution. Its repertoire ranges from Spieloper to operetta and musicals.

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The Unikatum Children's Museum Leipzig is a cultural institution with changing annual exhibitions on social issues in Leipzig. The interactive exhibitions for "Participation and Discovery" are aimed primarily at pupils and families.

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The Museum of Printing Arts Leipzig in the traditional book and publishing city is a museum that documents older printing techniques. It is located in Nonnenstraße in the Leipzig district of Plagwitz.

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Villa Meyer is the abbreviated term for two representative residential buildings in the immediate vicinity, built 12 years apart, for the publisher bookseller Herrmann Julius Meyer (1826–1909), son of the founder of the Bibliographic Institute, in Leipzig's Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße:Villa Hermann Julius Meyer I – Plagwitzer Straße 44, built in 1873 according to plans by Gustav Müller (1827–1904) Villa Hermann Julius Meyer II – Plagwitzer Straße 45, built in 1885/86 according to plans by Max Pommer (1847–1915)

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The Villa Baedeker is a listed city villa from the 1870s at Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 64 in Leipzig's Bachviertel, which was owned by the Baedeker publishing family for around seventy years. Today it is the seat of a private clinic for special surgery.

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The Saxon Psychiatric Museum is a small museum in Leipzig and deals with the history of lunatic asylums and psychiatry. It is organized by the Durchblick association, an initiative for people affected by psychiatry in Leipzig. It was founded in 2000. The special exhibitions deal with individual fates, careers and institutions:the life stories of the court president Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) and the Saxon dialect poet Lene Voigt (1891–1962) the biographies and therapeutic concepts of doctors and psychiatrists such as Christian August Fürchtegott Hayner (1775–1837) and Hermann Paul Nitsche (1876–1948) the development of psychiatric institutions in Saxony in the Middle Ages up to the sanatorium and nursing homes.

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The bronze relief "Departure" is a work of art created in 1973 for the then new building of the University of Leipzig in the style of Socialist Realism. Since the head of Karl Marx, the university's patron saint at the time, is located in its centre, it is also commonly referred to as the "(Karl) Marx relief". In 2007 and 2008, there was a broad social debate in Leipzig about the re-erection of the relief on the occasion of the construction work on the campus at Augustusplatz.

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

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The Haus Leipzig described here refers to a building at Elsterstraße 22–24 in Leipzig's Westvorstadt, which has served as a venue for concerts, balls, theatre and cabaret performances since 1946.

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The Ez-Chaim Synagogue was a synagogue on the property Apels Garten 4 in Leipzig, Germany.

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Leipzig's old Bach monument stands in the green spaces on Dittrichring, near St. Thomas's Church. It is the world's oldest monument to Johann Sebastian Bach. Donated by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, it was inaugurated in 1843. The designs were made by Eduard Bendemann, Ernst Rietschel and Julius Hübner. The monument was executed by the Leipzig sculptor Hermann Knaur. After its construction, it was restored several times, most recently in 2005.

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The Thomashaus is a listed building on the Thomaskirchhof in Leipzig.

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The Bach Museum Leipzig is a museum that deals with the life and work of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It is part of the Leipzig Bach Archive in the Bosehaus at St. Thomas's Church.

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The New Bach Monument in Leipzig is located in the Thomaskirchhof south of St. Thomas's Church instead of the Leibniz Monument located there from 1883 to 1906.

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The St. Thomas Church is a Lutheran church in Leipzig, Germany, located at the western part of the inner city ring road in Leipzig's central district. Martin Luther preached in the church in 1539. It is associated with several well-known composers, especially Johann Sebastian Bach, who was its Thomaskantor from 1723 until his death in 1750. The church holds his remains.

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The Petershof is a building complex in the city centre of Leipzig, which is used as a residential and commercial building. It was built from 1927 to 1929 according to plans by the Leipzig architect Alfred Liebig (1878–1952) as a trade fair building and also housed the Capitol cinema until 2003.

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

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The Messehof is a present-day commercial building with a shopping arcade, the Messehofpassage, in the city centre of Leipzig. It was built between 1949 and 1950 and is the first new municipal trade fair building after the Second World War.

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The Mädler Arcade Gallery is the last completely preserved historic shopping arcade covered by an end-to-end glass roof in the city center of Leipzig. It is a facility of upmarket retail, restaurants, offices and cultural establishments.

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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.

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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 Trade 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).

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The Alte Handelsbörse or Alte Börse in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, is the city's oldest assembly building of merchants, and also the oldest Baroque building. Built as the Börse in 1678, it is now used as an event venue and is known in English as the Old Stock Exchange.

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The Old Town Hall, which dominates the east side of the Markt square in Leipzig's district Mitte, is considered one of Germany's most important secular Renaissance buildings. At the rear is the Naschmarkt. The mayor and the municipal administration have been housed in the New Town Hall since 1905.

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The Markt is a square of about 1 ha in Leipzig's district of Mitte, Germany. It is considered the center of the city. The Old Town Hall stands on it, which demonstrates its particular historical importance. The square was named Platz des Friedens from 1950 to 1954. Its paving is a listed heritage monument.

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The König-Albert-Haus is a commercial building at Markt 9 in Leipzig, Germany. It forms the corner house to the Barfußgäßchen, where it bears the house numbers 2/4/6/8. His name is reminiscent of the Saxon King Albert. The house is a listed building.

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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.

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The Lipsia Fountain is an ornamental fountain in the city centre of Leipzig, Germany.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Der Jägerhof in Leipzig ist ein Gebäudekomplex zwischen Hainstraße und Großer Fleischergasse, durch den die gleichnamige Passage verläuft. Er steht unter Denkmalschutz.

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The Leipziger Pfeffermühle is a cabaret ensemble in Leipzig, Germany.

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The Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig in Leipzig is a German art museum. It was established in 1848 as an initiative of the citizens, 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 another 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 St. Nicholas Church is one of the major churches of central Leipzig, Germany. Construction started in Romanesque style in 1165, but in the 16th century, the church was turned into a Gothic hall church. Baroque elements like the tower were added in the 18th century.

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The building at Ritterstraße 8–10 in Leipzig, today the Geschwister-Scholl-Haus, was built between 1908 and 1910 as the seat of the first German commercial college on one of the oldest properties of the University of Leipzig, the Großer Fürstencolleg. The building was designed by Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947), the co-founder of the Deutscher Werkbund.

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The Predigerhaus in Leipzig at Nikolaikirchhof 3/4 is the parish and parish hall of the parish of St. Nikolai. It is a listed building.

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The old Nikolaischule was the first municipal citizens' school in Leipzig.

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The Kleines Kolleg was one of the two plots of land with buildings that the sovereigns, the Meissen Margraves Friedrich and Wilhelm, donated to the newly founded University of Leipzig in 1409. The buildings were used for teaching and also served as accommodation for the masters – there were eight in the Kleines Kolleg – and the students. The emoluments of the masters were also part of the foundation.

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The Royal Palace is a building of the University of Leipzig, which was built in 1861 as a residence for visits of the Saxon king to Leipzig according to designs by the architect Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868) and today serves as the rectorate of the university.

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The bust of Richard Wagner in Leipzig, erected in 1983, is dedicated to the city-born composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883). The design goes back to the Leipzig sculptor Max Klinger (1857–1920).

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The Schwanenteich in Leipzig is a body of water with a surrounding park on the outskirts of Leipzig's city centre. The park is part of the oldest urban landscape park in Germany. The official name of the park, which comes from history, is Oberer Park.

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The opera house is the venue for the opera and ballet divisions of the Leipzig Opera. The opera house is located in the centre of Leipzig on Augustusplatz, opposite the Gewandhaus. It was built in 1954–1960 according to a design by Kunz Nierade and Kurt Hemmerling and is kept in a neoclassical style.

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The Leipzig Music School "Johann Sebastian Bach" is the second largest music school in Germany.

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The Merkurhaus in Leipzig is an office and commercial building at the southern entrance to Petersstraße with the address Markgrafenstraße 2. The name of the house refers to a predecessor building on which a Mercury statue stood.

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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.

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The Luther Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church at Johannapark in Leipzig's Bachviertel. It is part of the Forum Thomanum educational campus.

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