Leipzig goes Olympic
by Leipzig
In April 2003 Leipzig and its regional partners Dresden, Chemnitz, Riesa, Halle and the Free State of Saxony won the national competition for the Olympic Games 2012. In Rostock the sailing competitions will be held. I attended the big party at market square in Leipzig. Check out this travelogue for some impressions.
I'd like to say thank you to our national opponents Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt for the fair competition and hope they are supporting Leipzig.
more info here
What are the other Bid Cities:
Havana, Cuba
Istanbul, Turkey
London, United Kingdom
Madrid, Spain
Moscow, Russia
New York, USA
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paris, France
On May 18 at 13:30 CEST in Lausanne, the International Olympic Committee reported the evaluation of the 2012 bids based on their questionnaire. All selected cities are official applicants for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. The final election of the host will be in Singapore on July 6, 2005.
My hometown didn't get into the top5. I was with ten thousands in the city centre to watch the dicision on one of the huge screens. One second after we knew Leipzig isn't allowed to apply for the Games all people were shocked. They all loudly disapproved the dicision and a lot of tears were rolling through faces.
Schiller House (museum)
by german_eagle
Visiting the Schiller House & Museum is not only worth your time if you're a fan of the German writer. The architecture of the house alone and the surrounding makes it worthwhile. The house is a typical farmer's house built in 1717. Small, cute, well preserved with a nice garden in the back - and it is the only one remaining of that type, all the others were torn down in the 19th century and replaced by larger (beautiful) apartment houses/blocks.
Schiller spent a summer here in 1785, happy with his group of friends drinking and partying and sometimes working - he apparently finished the "Ode to Joy" and worked on "Don Carlos" here.
Address: Menckestraße 42, Leipzig-Gohlis
Opening hours:
April-Oct Tue - Sun 10-18 h
Nov-Mar Wed - Sun 10-16 h
FREE!
Several events every month.
The VT meeting place :-)
by german_eagle about Antikhaus
Antikhaus is a nice place with a couple of restaurants in house. It is where VT member "Leipzig" uses to set up VT meetings :-)
I had lunch in the restaurant "Kartoffelkeller" there. The ambience is informal, almost familiar. Service was attentive. Because it was Friday I had fish with potatoes and some salad, accompanied by a glass of white wine. Good quality.
Expect huge portions!
mmmm....glühwein
by surf_grrl
Wandering around in the freezing cold is much improved by the addition of hot alcoholic drinks. (Canada could learn something from this...). We visited Weihnachtsmarkts in several small towns, and in Dresden, and the equivalent Christmas market in Prague, and I think Liepzig's is the best. It takes up street after street downtown - kiosks selling food and crafts and Christmas decorations and hot mead and hot spiced wine. If you want to, you can keep your (often chintzy) cup as a souvenir. There are a few little rides and a petting zoo for kids, and a Christmas story (fairy tale) park too. Note that it's only open until about seven or eight at night, so it's not a late-night party scene.
Thomaskirche (St. Thomas church)
by german_eagle
The church was founded 1212 -22 and in 14th and 15th centuries rebuilt in Gothic style.
The church is home of the world-famous Thomanerchor (boys choir), which is connected closely to Johann Sebastian Bach, who worked as cantor and organ player from 1723 - 50 here. Every Friday at 6 pm and Saturday at 3 pm the choir sings in the church.
In the choir you find the tomb of J. S. Bach. It was relocated from the destroyed Johanniskirche to St. Thomas church in 1950.
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