Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Leipzig, Germany

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Number of sights 21 sights
Distance 6.8 km
Ascend 93 m
Descend 88 m

Experience Leipzig in Germany in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in LeipzigIndividual Sights in Leipzig

Sight 1: Lutherkirche

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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.

Wikipedia: Lutherkirche (Leipzig) (DE), Website, Url

338 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst

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

Wikipedia: Herfurthsche Villa (Leipzig) (DE), Website

157 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Neubau

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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.

Wikipedia: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (EN), Website

327 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig - Bibliotheca Albertina

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Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig - Bibliotheca Albertina

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.

Wikipedia: Leipzig University Library (EN), Website

492 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Floßplatz

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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.

Wikipedia: Floßplatz (Leipzig) (DE)

663 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 6: Landgericht Leipzig

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

Wikipedia: Landgericht Leipzig (DE)

519 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 7: Musikschule Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Wikipedia: Musikschule Leipzig „Johann Sebastian Bach“ (DE), Website, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Krystallpalast Varieté Leipzig

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Krystallpalast Varieté Leipzig

The crystal palace was an entertainment facility in Leipzig for about 60 years. It was considered the greatest of its kind in Germany and was unique in Europe when it comes to the variety of events and spatial complexity. The name of the heart was a building consisting of a glass and iron with a hall that was primarily used for variety events, which is why it was often spoken by the crystal palace variety. A central dome building, the Alberthalle, had over 3,000 places.

Wikipedia: Krystallpalast (Leipzig) (DE), Website

269 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Messehof

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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.

Wikipedia: Messehof (DE)

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Mädler Passage

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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.

Wikipedia: Mädler Arcade Gallery (EN)

78 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Zeitgeschichtliches Forum

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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.

Wikipedia: Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig (EN), Website, Opening Hours, Website

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Leibnizdenkmal

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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.

Wikipedia: Leibnizdenkmal (Leipzig) (DE)

69 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Schinkel-Tor

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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.

Wikipedia: Schinkeltor (DE)

208 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Demokratieglocke

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

Wikipedia: Demokratieglocke (DE)

174 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Mendebrunnen

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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)

628 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: Lincks Gartenhaus

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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.

Wikipedia: Lincks Gartenhaus (DE)

638 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 17: Alter Johannisfriedhof

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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.

Wikipedia: Alter Johannisfriedhof (EN)

273 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University

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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.

Wikipedia: Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University (EN), Website

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Rabensteinplatz

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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.

Wikipedia: Rabensteinplatz (DE)

419 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 20: Reclam-Museum

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Reclam-Museum Dipl.-Des. Michael Kewitsch, Leipzig / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Reclam-Museum (DE), Website

790 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 21: Apelstein 42

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Apelstein 42

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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