Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Leipzig, Germany

Riverboat is a talk show on the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and a building in Leipzig, Germany, from which the show was previously broadcast.

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The Könneritz Bridge spans the White Elster in Leipzig and connects the districts of Plagwitz and Schleußig. Könneritzstraße begins at its southeastern end, followed by Ernst-Mey-Straße at the northwestern end. The bridge is named after the former Leipzig district governor and Saxon finance minister Leonce von Könneritz.

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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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The Herfurthsche Villa at Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 11 in Leipzig is a three-storey villa.

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The Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK) is an exhibition center for contemporary art and a museum for art post 1945 in Leipzig, Germany, in a beautiful location opposite Johannapark.

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Leipzig University Library, known also as Bibliotheca Albertina, is the central library of the University of Leipzig. It is one of the oldest German university libraries.

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The Floßplatz [ˈflɔsˌplat͡s] – pronounced "short O" [ɔ] in Leipzig – is the remnant of a larger historical complex that served for centuries to supply the city of Leipzig with firewood, but also with construction timber. It owes its name to its function as a municipal stacking and sales point for the timber rafted over the Elster and Pleiße. In its history, it was therefore sometimes called Holzplatz or Churfürstlicher Holzplatz.

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The Regional Court of Leipzig is a court of ordinary jurisdiction of the federal state of Saxony.

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

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For about 60 years, the Krystallpalast was a place of entertainment in Leipzig consisting of numerous individual offers. It was considered the largest of its kind in Germany and was unique in Europe in terms of the variety of events and spatial complexity. The eponymous centrepiece was a building made only of glass and iron with a hall that was mainly used for variety events, which is why it was often referred to as the Krystallpalast-Varieté. A central dome building, the Alberthalle, had over 3,000 seats.

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The Dresdner Hof in Leipzig is a former trade fair building on the corner of Neumarkt / Kupfergasse. The majority of the house served as a retirement home until 2022. The Dresdner Hof 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 Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig is a museum of contemporary German history. The museum was opened in 1999 and focuses on the history of the German division, everyday life in the communist dictatorship of the GDR, and the reunification process. It is located in the Grimmaische Strasse in the city center of Leipzig, Germany. A landmark of the museum is the sculpture The Step of the Century by Wolfgang Mattheuer in front of it.

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The Leibniz Monument in the inner courtyard of the new campus of Leipzig University (Leibnizforum) honours the mathematician, philosopher, physicist, politician and diplomat Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), who was born in Leipzig on 6 July 1646 and studied at the local university. He is considered the polymath of his time, one of the most important philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries and an important pioneer of the Enlightenment.

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The Schinkeltor at the west entrance to the New Augusteum of the University of Leipzig is the only surviving building fragment of the university complex on Augustusplatz from the 19th century. It is named after the Prussian master builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841). It is a listed building.

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The Democracy Bell is a monument located on Augustusplatz in Leipzig.

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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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Linck's Garden House is a reconstructed garden house built in the Baroque period in Leipzig's Seeburg district. It was built by the Leipzig pharmacist Johann Heinrich Linck the Younger. It is currently used by a law firm.

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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.

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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.

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Rabensteinplatz is a green space in the eastern suburbs of Leipzig. Historically a place of execution, it was converted into a green space in the 19th century. Rabensteinplatz is a listed building.

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The Reclam Museum is a book museum in Leipzig's Graphic Quarter, Kreuzstraße 12. It includes an exhibition of around 10,000 booklets, books, etc. from Reclam's Universal Library from its beginnings in 1867 to the present day. It is the only museum and the most comprehensive collection of its kind on publications of the Reclam publishing house.

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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 Lukaskirche is a Protestant church in the east of Leipzig in the centre of the district of Volkmarsdorf. The 71-metre-high tower, crowned with a pointed helmet, is the landmark of the district, which can be seen from afar. Since 2015, the Old Lutheran St. Trinity parish of Leipzig has been using the sacred building of the SELK.

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