Leipzig
View over Augustusplatz
Leipzig
Location of the town of Leipzig within Saxony
Coordinates	51°20′0″N 12°23′0″E / 51.333333°N 12.383333°E / 51.333333; 12.383333
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
Admin. region	Leipzig
District	Urban district
Lord Mayor	Burkhard Jung (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	297.60 km2 (114.90 sq mi)
Population	522,883 (31 December 2010)
- Density	1,757 /km2 (4,551 /sq mi)
- Urban	996,100
- Metro	3,500,000
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	L
Postal codes	04001-04357
Area code	0341
Website	www.leipzig.de

Leipzig (German pronunciation: [ˈlaɪptsɪç] ( listen) is, with a population of appr. 524,000 , the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany and in the new states of Germany, after Dresden. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Weisse Elster, Pleisse and Parthe in the Leipzig Bay (German: Leipziger Tieflandsbucht).

In the 17th century, Leipzig was one of the major European city-centres of learning and culture in fields such as music, astronomy and optics. After World War II, Leipzig became a major urban centre within the Communist German Democratic Republic.

Leipzig later played a significant role in the fall of communism in Eastern Germany, through events taken place in and around St. Nikolai Church. Since the Reunification of Germany, Leipzig has undergone significant change with the restoration of historical buildings and the development of a modern transport infrastructure. In 2006, Leipzig hosted key games in the FIFA World Cup.

In 2010, Leipzig was ranked 68th in the world as a livable city, by consulting firm Mercer in their quality of life survey. In 2009, Leipzig was ranked 35th in the world out of 256 cities for cultural, economic and social innovation.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Origins 1.2 The 19th century 1.3 The 20th century 2 Culture 2.1 Main sights 2.2 Music 2.3 Arts 2.4 Annual events 2.5 Sport 2.6 Food & Drink 3 Education 4 Guiness World Record for Leipzig 5 Economy 6 Media 7 Transport 8 Quotations 9 International relations 9.1 Partnerships 10 See also

History

Origins

Leipzig is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the linden trees (British English: lime trees; U.S. English: basswood trees) stand".

Leipzig was first documented in 1015 during the chronicles of Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg and endowed with city and market privileges in 1165 by Otto the Rich. Leipzig has fundamentally shaped the history of Saxony and of Germany and has always been known as a place of commerce. The Leipzig Trade Fair, started in the Middle Ages, became an event of international importance and is the oldest remaining trade fair in the world.

The foundation of the University of Leipzig in 1409 initiated the city's development into a centre of German law and the publishing industry, and towards being a location of the Reichsgericht (High Court), and the German National Library (founded in 1912). The philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig in 1646, and attended the university from 1661 to 1666.

On 24 December 1701, an oil-fuelled street lighting system was introduced. The city employed light guards who had to follow a specific schedule to ensure the punctual lighting of the 700 lanterns.

The 19th century

The Leipzig region was the arena of the 1813 Battle of Leipzig between Napoleonic France and an allied coalition of Prussia, Russia, Austria and Sweden. It was the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I and ended Napoleon's presence in Germany and would ultimately lead to his first exile on Elba. In 1913, the Völkerschlachtdenkmal monument celebrating the centenary of this event was completed.

A terminal of the first German long distance railway to Dresden (the capital of Saxony), in 1839, Leipzig became a hub of Central European railway traffic, with the renowned Leipzig Central Station, the largest terminal station by area in Europe.

Leipzig became a centre of the German and Saxon liberal movements. The first German labour party, the General German Workers' Association (Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded in Leipzig on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle; about 600 workers from across Germany travelled to the foundation on the new railway line. Leipzig expanded rapidly towards one million inhabitants. Huge Gründerzeit areas were built, which mostly survived both war and post-war demolition.

The 20th century

With the opening of a fifth production hall in 1907, the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei became the largest cotton mill company on the continent, housing over 240,000 spindles. Daily production surpassed 5 million kilograms of yarn.

The city's mayor from 1930 to 1937, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a noted opponent of the Nazi regime in Germany. He resigned in 1937 when, in his absence, his Nazi deputy ordered the destruction of the city's statue of Felix Mendelssohn. On Kristallnacht in 1938, one of the city's most architecturally significant buildings, the 1855 Moorish Revival Leipzig synagogue was deliberately destroyed.

The city was also heavily damaged by Allied bombing during World War II. Unlike its neighbouring city of Dresden this was largely conventional bombing, with high explosives rather than incendiaries. The resultant pattern of loss was a patchwork, rather than wholesale loss of its centre, but was nevertheless very extensive.

The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Leipzig in late April 1945. The US 2nd Infantry Division and US 69th Infantry Division fought into the city on 18 April and completed its capture after fierce urban combat, in which fighting was often house-to-house and block-to-block, on 19 April 1945.

The U.S. turned over the city to the Red Army as it pulled back from the line of contact with Soviet forces in July 1945 to the pre-designated occupation zone boundaries. Leipzig became one of the major cities of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

In the mid-20th century, the city's Trade Fair assumed renewed importance as a point of contact with the Comecon Eastern Europe economic bloc, of which East Germany was a member.

In October 1989, after prayers for peace at St. Nicholas Church, established in 1983 as part of the peace movement, the Monday demonstrations started as the most prominent mass protest against the East German regime.

Leipzig was the German candidate for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was unsuccessful.

Culture

Main sights

• St. Thomas Church (Thomaskirche): Most famous as the place where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a cantor and home to the renowned boys choir Thomanerchor
• Monument to Felix Mendelssohn in front of this church. Destroyed by the Nazis in 1936, it was rebuilt on October 18, 2008.
• St. Nicholas Church (Nikolaikirche), for which Bach was also responsible. The weekly Montagsgebet (Monday prayer) held here became in the 1980s the starting point of peaceful Monday demonstrations for the reunification of Germany.
• Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Battle of the Nations Monument): the largest monument in Europe, built to commemorate the victorious battle against Napoleonic troops
• Gewandhaus: home to the famous Gewandhaus Orchestra, it is the third building of that name
• Altes Rathaus: the old city hall was built in 1556 and houses a museum of the city's history
• Neues Rathaus: the new city hall was built upon the remains of the Pleißenburg, a castle that was the site of the 1519 debate between Johann Eck and Martin Luther
• City-Hochhaus Leipzig: built in 1972, it was once part of the university and is the city's tallest building
• Auerbachs Keller: a young Goethe ate and drank here while studying in Leipzig; it is the venue of a scene from his Faust
• Städtisches Kaufhaus (municipal department store): the world's first sample fair building and today home to offices, retail stores, restaurants and interim classrooms for the University of Leipzig (its name is misleading, as it is privately owned)
• Bundesverwaltungsgericht: Germany's federal administrative court was the site of the Reichsgericht, the highest state court between 1888 and 1945
• The Leipzig Botanical Garden is the oldest botanical garden in Germany

Among Leipzig's noteworthy institutions are the opera house and the Leipzig Zoological Garden, the latter of which houses the world's largest facilities for primates. Leipzig's international trade fair in the north of the city is home to the world's largest levitated glass hall. Leipzig is also known for its passageways through houses and buildings.

Music

see also Category:Music from Leipzig

Johann Sebastian Bach worked in Leipzig from 1723 to 1750, conducting the Thomanerchor, at the St. Thomas Church, the St. Nicholas Church and the Paulinerkirche, the university church of Leipzig (destroyed in 1968). The composer Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig in 1813, in the Brühl. Robert Schumann was also active in Leipzig music, having been invited by Felix Mendelssohn when the latter established Germany's first musical conservatoire in the city in 1843. Gustav Mahler was second conductor (working under Artur Nikisch) at the Leipzig Theater from June 1886 until May 1888, and achieved his first great recognition while there by completing and publishing Carl Maria von Weber's opera Die Drei Pintos, and Mahler also completed his own 1st Symphony while living there.

This conservatoire is today the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig A broad range of subjects can be studied, both artistic and teacher training, in all orchestral instruments, voice, interpretation, coaching, piano chamber music, orchestral conducting, choir conducting and musical composition. Musical styles include jazz, popular music, musicals, early music and church music. The drama departments teach acting and dramaturgy.

The Bach-Archiv for documentation and research of life and work of Bach and also of the Bach family was founded in Leipzig in 1950 by Werner Neumann. The Bach-Archiv organizes the prestigious International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, initiated in 1950 as part of a music festival marking the bicentennial of Bach's death. The competition is now held every two years in three changing categories. The Bach-Archiv also organizes performances, especially the international festival Bach-Fest and runs the Bach-Museum.

The city's musical tradition is also reflected in the worldwide fame of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Thomanerchor. For over 60 years Leipzig has been offering the oldest "school concert program for children in Germany. With over 140 concerts every year in venues such as the Gewandhaus and over 40,000 children attending, young adults are educated and inspired with music.

As for contemporary music, Leipzig is known for its independent music scene and subcultural events. Leipzig has for 20 years been home to the world's largest Gothic festival, the annual Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT), where thousands of electro fans from across Europe gather in the early summer. Leipzig Pop Up is an annual music trade fair for the independent music scene as well as a music festival taking place on Pentecost weekend. Its most famous indie-labels are Moon Harbour Recordings (house) and Kann Records (House/Techno/Psychedelic). Live music on a daily basis can be heard in several venues. is one of the oldest student clubs in Europe with concerts in various styles. For over 15 years "Tonelli's" has been offering free weekly concerts every day of the week. Tuesdays is "Guitarnight"; Wednesdays showcases local jazz talent; Thursday harbors the local Blues scene. Various acts such as comedy lounge, poetry, open mike night are offered on other nights.

Bill and Tom Kaulitz members of the band Tokio Hotel were born in Leipzig in 1989, as was Till Lindemann of Rammstein in 1963.

Arts

The city's contemporary arts highlight is the Neo Rauch retrospective opening in April 2010 at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. This is a show devoted to the father of the New Leipzig School of artists. According to The New York Times, this scene "has been the toast of the contemporary art world" in the past decade. Further there are eleven galleries in the so-called Spinnerei, a former cotton mill that attracts all kinds of independent artists. The New York Times features Leipzig in the Top 10 of its "31 Places to Go" article in 2010.

The building complex of the Grassi Museum contains three more of Leipzig's major collections: the Ethnography Museum, Applied Arts Museum, and Musical Instrument Museum (the last of which is run by the University of Leipzig). The university also runs the Museum of Antiquities.

Annual events

• Auto Mobil International (AMI) motor show
• AMITEC, trade fair for vehicle maintenance, care, servicing and repairs in Germany and Central Europe
• A cappella: vocal music festival, organized by the Ensemble amarcord
• Bach-Fest: Johann Sebastian Bach-festival
• Christmas market (since 1767)
• Dokfestival: international festival for documented and animated film
• GC - Games Convention: video game & developers convention (2002–2008)
• Jazztage, contemporary jazz festival

• Ladyfest Leipzig (August) Emancipatoric, feminist Punk & Electro Festival
• Leipzig Book Fair: the second largest German book fair
• OPER unplugged with Music Dance Theatre by Heike Hennig & Co
• Stadtfest: city festival
• Wave-Gotik-Treffen at Pentecost: world's largest goth or "dark culture" festival
• Leipzig Pop Up

Sport

More than 300 sport clubs exist around town representing 78 different kinds of disciplines. Over 400 sport facilities are available to citizens and club members.

The German Football Association (DFB) was founded in Leipzig in 1900. The city was the venue for the 2006 FIFA World Cup draw, and hosted four first-round matches and one match in the round of 16 in the Zentralstadion. Leipzig also hosted the Fencing World Cup in 2005 and hosts a number of international competitions in a variety of sports each year.

Since the beginning of the 20th century Ice hockey gained popularity and several local clubs established departments dedicated to that sport. Today the Blue Lions Leipzig is the most famous Ice hockey club in town.

VfB Leipzig, now 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig, won the first national football championship in 1903.

From 1950 to 1990 Leipzig was host of the Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur (DHfK), the national sport university of the GDR. Its sportclub, the SC DHfK Leipzig, is the world's most successful sports club in terms of numbers of Olympic and World Cup Medals.

Handball-Club Leipzig is one of the most successful Women's Handball clubs in Germany, winning 20 domestic championships since 1956 and 3 Champions League titles.

Two-time World Cup Uneven Bars Champion and Olympic Medalist (1976, 1980) in gymnastics, Steffi Kraker was born in Leipzig.

Leipzig made a bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The bid did not make the final cut after the International Olympic Committee paired the bids down to 5, which eventually was won by London on 6 July 2005.

Markkleeberger See is a new lake next to Markkleeberg, a suburb on the south side of Leipzig. A former open-pit coal mine, it was flooded in 1999 with groundwater and developed in 2006 as a tourist area. On its southeastern shore is Germany's only pump-powered artificial whitewater slalom course, the Kanupark Markkleeberg, a venue which rivals the Eiskanal in Augsburg for training and international canoe/kayak competition.

In June 2009 Red Bull made a second attempt to enter the local football market after being denied the right to buy itself into FC Sachsen Leipzig in 2006. The newly founded RB Leipzig now attempts to come up through the ranks of German football to bring Bundesliga football back to the region.

Two Leipzig based teams are members of the Unihockey-Bundesliga, the German Premiere Floorball league. The MFBC Löwen Leipzig were runner-up in 2009, the SC DHFK Leipzig in 2008.

Food & Drink

• An all-season local dish is Leipziger Allerlei, a stew consisting of seasonal vegetables and crayfish.
• Leipziger Lerche is a shortcrust pastry dish filled with crushed almonds, nuts and strawberry jam; the name ("Leipzig lark") comes from a lark pâté which was a Leipzig speciality until the banning of songbird hunting in Saxony in 1876.
• Gose is a locally brewed beer that originated in the Goslar region and in the 18th century became popular in Leipzig.

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  Leipziger Lerchen

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  Historical Gose bottle (ca. 1900)

Education

Leipzig University, founded 1409, is one of Europe's oldest universities. Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg worked here as a physics professor (from 1927 to 1942), as did Nobel Prize laureates Gustav Ludwig Hertz (physics), Wilhelm Ostwald (chemistry) and Theodor Mommsen (Nobel Prize in literature). Other former staff of faculty include mineralogist Georg Agricola, writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, philosopher Ernst Bloch, eccentric founder of psychophysics Gustav Theodor Fechner, and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt. Among the university's many noteworthy students were writers Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Erich Kästner, philosophers Gottfried Leibniz and Friedrich Nietzsche, political activist Karl Liebknecht, and composer Richard Wagner. Germany's chancellor since 2006, Angela Merkel, studied physics at Leipzig University. The university has about 30,000 students.

A part of Leipzig University is the German Institute for Literature which was founded in 1955 under the name "Johannes R. Becher-Institut". A lot of noted writers have been graduated on this school. Heinz Czechowski, Kurt Drawert, Adolf Endler, Ralph Giordano, Kerstin Hensel, Sarah and Rainer Kirsch, Angela Krauß, Erich Loest, Fred Wander - just to name a few of the most influencing writers of this era. After its closure in 1990 the institute was refounded in 1995 with new teachers. A big part of the new generation of German authors has been educated there.

The "Academy of Visual Arts" (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) was established 1764. Its 530 students (as of 2006) are enrolled in courses in painting and graphics, book design/graphic design, photography and media art. The school also houses an Institute for Theory.

The University of Music and Theatre offers a broad range of subjects ranging from training in orchestral instruments, voice, interpretation, coaching, piano chamber music, orchestral conducting, choir conducting and musical composition to acting and dramaturgy.

The Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK) is with about 6200 students (as of 2007) the second biggest institution of higher education in Leipzig. It was founded in 1992, merging several older schools. As a university of applied sciences (German: Fachhochschule) it is slightly below the status of a university, with more emphasis on the practical part of the education. The HTWK offers many engineering courses, as well as courses in computer sciences, mathematics, business administration, librarianship, museum studies, and social work. It is mainly located in the south of the city.

The private HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management, or in German Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL), is the oldest business school in Germany.

Among the research institutes located in Leipzig three belong to the Max Planck Society. These are the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Another two are Fraunhofer Society institutes. Others are the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, and the Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research.

Guiness World Record for Leipzig

Several years ago, a Giant Stamp Mosaic aspect of the Stamps-for-Leipzig was produced. Students represented the project during a press event at the Deutsche Bank and during an exhibition by the “Philatelistenverein“ at Leipzig’s New City Hall. There was a major response to the project during the Models-Hobbies-Games exhibition at Leipzig’s Trade Fair.

An unexpected high turnout of volunteers to their Saturday sessions between January and April helped achieve their objectives. Although only four boards of one-hundred were completely covered during the first stamping day, dozens were started with some colour sections completed. The following sessions were very productive. Two thirds of the panels were completed. They completed the stamping of the 100 boards in 4 months.

All Board were then merged to the mosaic for press and publicity and for documentation to the Guinness World Records (GWR). End of 2008 they were entitled the World Record for the Largest Stamp-Mosaic by GWR!

Economy

Companies in or around Leipzig include:

• Amazon
• Blüthner: piano-manufacturing
• BMW
• DHL
• Porsche
• Siemens
• Future Electronics

Many bars, restaurants and stores found in the city center are patronised by German and foreign tourists. The Leipzig Central Station itself is the location of one of the largest shopping centres.

Some of the largest employers in the area (outside of manufacturing) include the various schools and universities in and around the Leipzig/Halle region. The University of Leipzig attracts millions of euros of investment yearly and is in the middle of a massive construction and refurbishment to celebrate their 600th anniversary.

DHL is in the process of transferring the bulk of its European air operations from Brussels Airport to Leipzig/Halle Airport. The airport is also a major source of income for the area and offers many flights daily through Lufthansa, Germany's main carrier. It is also a major transit stop for US Military charters.

The city also houses the European Energy Exchange which is the leading energy exchange in Central Europe.

Kirow Ardelt AG, the world market leader in railroad cranes, is based in Leipzig.

Future Electronics – a world leader in electronic component distribution has relocated its EMEA Distribution Centre to Leipzig.

Media

• MDR, one of Germany's public broadcasters, has its headquarters and main television studios in the city. It provides programs to various TV and radio networks and has its own symphony orchestra, choir and a ballet.
• Leipziger Volkszeitung (LVZ) is the city's only daily newspaper. Founded in 1894, it has published under several different forms of government. It was the first newspaper in the world to be published daily. The monthly magazine Kreuzer specializes on culture, festivities and the arts in Leipzig.
• Once known for its large number of publishing houses, Leipzig had been called Buch-Stadt (book city). Few are left after the years of the German Democratic Republic, the most notable of them being branches of Brockhaus and Insel Verlag. Reclam, founded in 1828, was one of the large publishing houses to move away. The German Library (Deutsche Bücherei) in Leipzig is part of Germany's National Library.

Transport

Originally founded at the crossing of Via Regia and Via Imperii, Leipzig has been a major interchange of inter-European traffic and commerce since medieval times. After the Reunification of Germany, immense efforts to restore and expand the traffic network have been undertaken and left the city area with an excellent infrastructure.

Since 1936, Leipzig has been connected to the A 9 and A 14 autobahns via the Schkeuditzer Kreuz interchange and several exits. The A 38 completes the autobahn beltway around Leipzig and was completed in August 2006.

Leipzig Central Station, opened in 1915, is at a junction of important north-to-south and west-to-east railway lines. An underground connecting line has been driven along the north-south axis. Leipzig also has an extensive local public transport network. The city's tram and bus network is operated by the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe.

In the vicinity of the city are two airports: Leipzig/Halle Airport and Leipzig-Altenburg Airport (Thuringia). Leipzig/Halle Airport offers a number of seasonal vacation charter flights as well as regular scheduled service.

Like most German cities, Leipzig has a traffic layout designed to be bicycle-friendly. There is an extensive cycle network. In most of the one-way central streets, cyclists are explicitly allowed to cycle both ways. A few cycling roads have been built or declared since 1990.

Quotations

Mein Leipzig lob' ich mir! Es ist ein klein Paris und bildet seine Leute. (I praise my Leipzig! It is a small Paris and educates its people.) - Frosch, a university student in Goethe's Faust, Part One

Ich komme nach Leipzig, an den Ort, wo man die ganze Welt im Kleinen sehen kann. (I come to Leipzig, the place where one can see the whole world in miniature.) – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Extra Lipsiam vivere est miserrime vivere. (Living outside Leipzig means living miserably.) - Benedikt Carpzov the Younger

Das angenehme Pleis-Athen, Behält den Ruhm vor allen, Auch allen zu gefallen, Denn es ist wunderschön. (The pleasurable Pleis-Athens, earns its fame above all, appealing to every one, too, for it is mightily beauteous.) - Johann Sigismund Scholze

International relations

Leipzig is twinned with:

• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, since 2004
• Birmingham, UK, since 1992
• Bologna, Italy, since 1962, renewed in 1997
• Brno, Czech Republic, since 1973, renewed in 1999
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany, since 1990
• Hanover, Germany, since 1987
• Houston, United States, since 1993
• Kiev, Ukraine, since 1961, renewed in 1992
• Lyon, France, since 1981</
• Nanjing, China, since 1988
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria, since 1975, renewed in 2007
• Thessaloniki, Greece, since 1984
• Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2003
• Herzliya, Israel, since 2010

Partnerships

• Kraków, Poland, since 1973, renewed in 1995

See also

• Leipzig Human Rights Award
• List of mayors of Leipzig
• Hugo Schneider AG
• Leipzig University Library

Notes

Leipzig travel guide from Wikitravel

	Halle	Delitzsch, Dessau	Berlin
	Kassel		Dresden
		Leipzig
	Jena, Weimar, Erfurt	Gera, Zwickau	Chemnitz

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