Welcome to Leipzig

Welcome to Leipzig!

The city offers a lot for everyone and it's definitely always worth a visit.

Leipzig ranks among the cultural hotspots in Europe. All kinds of museums and galleries bear witness to the city's cultural relevance. Leipzig is especially famous for it's musicality. It was and is not only home and work place for Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the notorious Klaus Renft Combo and die Prinzen, also the lads of the world-famous St. Thomas Choir have their head quarters at Thomas Church in Leipzig.

Leipzig has always played an important or even dramatic role, not only in the history of Saxony but also for Germany and the whole world. For more than 800 years the city has been a significant trade fair location and thus attracts many foreign visitors who create an international flair in Leipzig's streets. On top of that the 30.000 students of the University of Leipzig (afterall 600 long years old!) enhance a very lively air and most certainly worship the magnificent and colourful nightlife.

Germany's beloved Goethe studied and boozed in Leipzig and Napoleon got his first smacking here in the fight for absolute power in Europe (and with him the brave Saxons who foolishly fought on his side). In the year 1989 Leipzig eventually became known to even the most hidden corners of the world (at least for a short time). With the demonstrations and prayers at the Nikolai Church the revolution in the former GDR started here and finally led to the re-unification of Germany and the end of the Cold War.

And even for those who don't like culture too much, Leipzig is the right spot since it's also a very green city, traversed by parks and forests and surrounded by a unique lakeland. Here you can find any kinds of sports and recreation and even an excellent sunburn...

Accomodation & Tourist Information

links: accomodation and information in 6 languages:

www.hostel-leipzig.de

www.globetrotter-leipzig.de

Leipzig Tourist Information

www.leipzig.de

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facts

AREA:

300 qkm

POPULATION:

500.000

TOWN'S LANDMARK:

Monument of the Battle of Nations..the symbol of the city and with an overall height of 91 metres one of Leipzigs highest buildings too

Number of network hostels:

HIGHLIGHTS:

Main Railway Station... one of the largest in Europe, Maedler Passage and Auerbachskeller...famous through Goethes Faust; St. Nikolai Church... the starting point for the peaceful political upheavals of Autumn 1989, medieval city center

TYPICAL DISH:

Leipziger Allerlei

BIGGEST PARTY:

Wave-Gotik-Treffen world's largest festival for dark culture held 5 days each spring, tens of thousands of gothic, industrial, darkwave, ebm, darkfolk fans from around the world collect to see performances from hundreds of bands, dozens of movies and literary events, all-night dance parties, and many other things.

MOST RIDICULOUS SOUVENIR:

maybe not the most ridiculous ones but unique souvenirs: the Olympia in Leipzig 2012 collection. Leipzig bid for it, but failed.

SUGGESTED DAYTRIP:

Woerlitz Park

The Woerlitz Park, which has been kept in its original state for a great part up to this day, crowns the Dessau-Woerlitz Garden Kingdom, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in November 2000. The whole Garden Kingdom is situated in the midst of the Biosphere Reserve of the Middle Elbe River in the close vicinity of the Bauhaus city of Dessau.