Unmistakably Leipzig

The hometown of Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was Leipzig's musical director – director ‘musices lipsiensis’ – and choirmaster of the St Thomas' Boys Choir between 1723 and 1750. The city has dedicated itself to maintaining Bach's heritage with the Bach Archives, the Bach Museum, the St Thomas' Boys Choir, and the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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The Leipzig Fair – "trade fairs made-to-measure"

The Leipzig Fair is also known as the "mother of all trade fairs" and opened its new exhibition centre in 1996. In 1997 the trade fair celebrated the 500th anniversary of being granted the "Imperial Right to Hold Trade Fairs". The slogan of the Leipzig Fair: "trade fairs made-to-measure".
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St Thomas' Boys Choir

St Thomas' Boys Choir emerged more than 800 years ago from the practice of music making during services at the former Augustinian Canons. Today, the choir enjoys an exceptional international renown.
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The Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus

The Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus - contributes since over 250 years to care and development classical music, are a epitome for the city and today world-famous.
The Gewandhaus conductor is the international star conductor Riccardo Chailly. The Gewandhaus Orchestra plays in the Gewandhaus just as in the performances in the Opera House and at the stagings of the Bach cantatas joint with the St Thomas' Boys Choir in the St Thomas' church.
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The Leipzig Opera House

The Opera Leipzig - consists of Opera, operetta and the ballet of Leipzig - is the third oldest bourgeois music theatre stage of Europe, their jutting international reputation leave its mark through important soloists, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, a award-winning choir and the ballet of Leipzig in the continuity of the choreographys of Uwe Scholz.
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Mendelssohn House

Mendelssohn House is the only surviving residence of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the place where he died. Today, Mendelssohn House is a museum, where many exhibits including his original furniture are on display.
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Goethe and Auerbachs Keller

Between 1765 and 1768, Johann Wolfgang Goethe studied in Leipzig. A scene from his celebrated "Faust", "Auerbach's Cellar in Leipzig", made the restaurant world-famous.
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Leipzig – the City of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989

Leipzig was the starting point for the events which led to the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. You can visit the original locations of St Nicholas's Church, where after the Prayers for Peace were said, the demonstrations started along Augustusplatz and the central ring road to the headquarters of the secret police (Stasi), part of which has been incorporated into the Museum in the "Round Corner".
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The Old City Hall

Leipzig's Old Town Hall is one of the most beautiful Renaissance town halls in Germany. It was built between 1556 and 1557 in just nine months.
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Zum Arabischen Coffe Baum

This is the oldest surviving coffee house and restaurant in Europe which has been continuously in operation. Today it is restaurant, cafe, and museum in one, documenting the history of the Saxons' proverbial love of coffee.
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Leipzig Central Station

Leipzig's Central Station is one of the largest terminus train stations in Europe. A few years ago sections of the Station were altered to house a state-of-the-art shopping and service centre.
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Monument to the Battle of the Nations

This largest memorial complex in Europe, with a viewing platform 91 metres above ground, was erected to commemorate the Battle of the Nations of 1813.
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Spinning works – from cutton to cuture

In the past the biggest cutton spinnery continental of europe is today the place with the highest closenes in Germany. Beside 80 building artists. 14 galleries and certificating area pangend the old „Fabrikstadt“ through there heterogenous use. This is a perfect field for creative people like achitects, locksmiths, joiners and cabinetmakers. Catering, theatre – and dancegroups, art – and culture initiatives, small shops and individual life lofts create the character of downright charming urbanity.
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Wilhelminian-style architecture – Waldstrassenviertel

Like hardly any other city, Leipzig is home to a unique district of listed buildings from the Wilhelminian era. A major example of this particular style from the late 19th century can be experienced in the Waldstrassenviertel district.

Auenwald floodplain forest

Auenwald is a park and floodplain landscape unique in Europe, snaking in a green belt all the way through the city.

Drallewatsch

The original "go out experience" from restaurant to restaurant, from pub to pub in the heart of Leipzig.
The name "Drallewatsch" is a old saxon term for "to live to see sth".

Leipzig Zoo

Leipzig Zoo is one of the oldest and most varied zoos in the world, and it is one of the most popular destinations in the city. Visit "Pongoland", the world's largest zoo facility for anthropoids, "Makasi Simba", the lions' savannah, a sloth-bears' gorge, a Tiger's taiga, an African savannah. And much much more.
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Belantis Amusement Park Leipzig

Leipzig has its own amusement park to the south of the city, serving eastern Germany. The park covers an area of 25 hectares including 60.000 square metres of water and a four kilometre circular walk which takes visitors on a journey through time.
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Asisi Panometer Leipzig

An old gasometer offers for its visitors the biggest panometer of the world. After the exhibitions "Mount Everest" and "Rome CCCXII" Yadegar Asisi has realized a further panorama in the Leipzig gasometer. The panorama "Amazonia - Yadegar Asisi's magical picture of nature" enables a "seeing-journey" in the middle of the tropical rainforest-scenery at the Amazon.
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The world's largest freestanding advent calendar

Erected in December 1997 for the first time, the world's largest freestanding advent calendar is one of the major attractions of each Leipzig Christmas market.