Leipzig - an ideal starting-place
by Leipzig
This grand old city is a busy venue for trade fairs and conferences and a major centre of trade, culture, nightlife and shopping. The lovely old Renaissance and Baroque buildings, historical trading centres and malls are now fully restored and modernised, providing a stylish paradise for shoppers and sightseers. High-class entertainment is assured – attractions for arts-lovers include the Gewandhaus concert hall, the Opera House, the St. Thomas Choir, cabarets, theatres and jazz cellars. Leipzig is an ideal starting-place for day trips and short excursions to Meissen, Dresden, Erfurt, Naumburg, Weimar, Wittenberg, Torgau and Dessau. A tour of the heaths and castles of Saxony also offers a welcome contrast to life in the big city.
Industrial Architecture of the 19th century
by german_eagle
Leipzig is rich of amazing 19th century industrial architecture. A highly recommended place to go for exploring is Leipzig-Plagwitz, just a few tram stops southwest of the city centre.
My favourite is the former textile plant "Buntgarnwerke" (Nonnenstraße 17-21), built 1879-88 in Neo-Renaissance style. Facades are brickstones and plaster alternating, with large windows. In the 1990s these buildings were turned into apartment (lofts) houses and office buildings. As you can see on the picture on side faces the Weiße Elster river - must be amazing to live there.
The second picture shows some recently built luxury apartment houses with their own access to the river. Many folks who live there have boats.
Tram 1, 2 stop Holbeinstraße
Public Transport
by Leipzig
Leipzig has one of Europe's modernest public transport system. 'Travel in comfort' is the slogan of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) GmbH. Today, this enterprise is one of the largest local transport enterprises in Germany.
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Prices (as in 2002):
€ 1,00...short trip ticket (4 stations)
€ 1,30...one hour ticket in town only
€ 1,90...one hour ticket in town & suburbs
€ 4,00...day ticket in town only
€ 5,90...day ticket in town & suburbs
Coffee Museum
by IceBear7
Where else could a coffee museum be but in the famous coffee house "Zum arabischen Coffe Baum". It's on the third floor of this old building, you have to go up some steep stairs, around corners and underneath low doors, and you find a wonderful exhibition about drinking coffee - with hundreds of cups and coffee grinders, the history, how coffee came to Europe, how the rich noble ladies of Saxony treated their admirers with coffee and what guys like Goether and Bach said about coffee in general and the coffee in Leipzig in particular. .
Free entrance and very entertaining and informative at the same time. Great little museum!
Song of Life
by Nemorino
Inside the Gewandhaus the ceilings of the main foyer are dominated by a huge colorful painting called "Song of Life" by the Leipzig artist Sighard Gille.
The painting covers a total area of 712 square meters on four diagonal slabs of ceiling, and they say it is Europe’s largest ceiling painting.
At night they light it up with spotlights, so you can see the painting from inside the lobby and through the glass façade of the building from the square outside.
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Nikolaikirche
Kroch-Hochhaus
