Leipzig

	Email		Print
	Bookmark		Link

Leipzig

Leipzig () is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city

City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
in the federal state

States of Germany

Germany is a federation consisting of sixteen states, known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is commonly used colloquially, as it is more specific, though technically incorrect within the corpus of German law....
of Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a States of Germany of Germany. Located in the southeastern part of present-day Germany. It is the tenth-largest German state in area and the sixth largest in population , of Germany's sixteen states....
, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
.

ee also :Category:People from Leipzig

zig's name is derived from the Slavic

Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....
word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the lime trees

Tilia

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, in Asia , Europe and eastern North America; it is not native to western North America....
stand".

First documented in 1015 and endowed with city and market privileges in 1165, Leipzig has fundamentally shaped the history of Saxony

Saxony

Germany

Discussion

Ask a question about 'Leipzig'

Start a new discussion about 'Leipzig'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

History

see also :Category:People from Leipzig

Origins

Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic

Slavic languages

Tilia

Saxony

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. Leipzig has always been known as a place of commerce. The Leipzig Trade Fair

Leipzig Trade Fair

The Leipzig Trade Fair was a major fair for trade across Central Europe for nearly a millennium. After the Second World War, its location happened to lie within the borders of East Germany, whereupon it became one of the most important trade fairs of Comecon and was traditionally a meeting place for businessmen and politicians from both sid...
, which began in the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
, is the oldest remaining trade fair in the world. It became an event of international importance.

The foundation of the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest University in Europeand currently the List_of_universities_in_Germany#Universities_by_age university in Germany....
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 of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest University in Europeand currently the List_of_universities_in_Germany#Universities_by_age university in Germany....
from 1661–1666.

The importance of the Trade Fair and the University in the creation of a vibrant urban life and city politics from the Reformation through the 19th century cannot be overestimated.

The nineteenth century

The Leipzig region was the arena of the Battle of the Nations

Battle of Leipzig

The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations, fought on 16?19 October, 1813, was one of the most decisive defeats suffered by Napoleon Bonaparte....
, which ended Napoleon's run of conquest in Europe, and led to his first exile on Elba

Elba

Elba is an island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino. It is the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, and the third largest List of islands of Italy after Sicily and Sardinia....
. In 1913 the Völkerschlachtdenkmal

Völkerschlachtdenkmal

The V?lkerschlachtdenkmal is a monument in Leipzig, Germany, to the Battle of Leipzig of 1813, also known as the Battle of the Nations. It is one of Leipzig's main landmarks and the largest monument in Europe....
monument celebrating the centenary of this event was completed.

A terminal of the first German long distance railway to Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
(the capital of Saxony), in 1839, Leipzig became a hub of Central European railway traffic, with the renowned Leipzig Central station

Leipzig Hauptbahnhof

Terminal Station

Terminal Station is a 1953 in film English language film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of the love affair between an Italian man and an American woman....
by area in Europe.

Leipzig expanded rapidly towards one million inhabitants. Huge Gründerzeit

Gründerzeit

refers to the economic phase in 19th century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. It deals with the ascent of the second Kondratiev wave....
areas were built, which mostly survived the war and post-war demolition.

Leipzig became a centre of the German and Saxon liberal movements. The first German labour party

Labour Party

The name Labour Party, Labor Party or similar is used by several political party around the world, particularly common in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations....
, the General German Workers' Association

General German Workers' Association

The General German Workers' Association, in German language Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle and existed under this name until 1875, when it combined with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht's Social Democratic Workers' Party to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, which...
(Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded in Leipzig on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle

Ferdinand Lassalle

Ferdinand Lassalle was a Germans-Jewish jurist and socialism political activist....
; about 600 workers from across Germany travelled to the foundation on the new railway line.

The twentieth century

The city's mayor from 1930 to 1937, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a Conservatism Germany politician, executive, economist, civil servant, and Widerstand of the Nazi Germany. Had the 20 July plot of 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government....
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

Felix Mendelssohn

Kristallnacht

File:1938 Interior of Berlin synagogue after Kristallnacht.jpgKristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass or "night of shattered crystal" was a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9?10, 1938....
in 1938, one of the city's most architecturally significant buildings, the 1855 Moorish Revival

Moorish Revival

Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist Orientalism....
Leipzig synagogue

Leipzig synagogue

The ornate Moorish Revival Leipzig synagogue was built in 1855 by German Jewish architect Otto Simonson who had studied under Gottfried Semper, architect of the Semper Synagogue in Dresden....
was deliberately destroyed.

The city was also heavily damaged by Allied bombing during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
troops of the 69th Infantry Division captured the city on 20 April 1945, Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
's 56th and last birthday. The U.S.

United States

Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
as it pulled back from the line of contact

Line of contact

The Line of Contact marked the farthest advance of American, British and Soviet Armies into Germany at the end of World War II. This contact began with the first meeting between Soviet and American forces at Torgau, near the Elbe river on Elbe Day, April 25, 1945....
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

German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic was a self-declared socialist state created in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany and the East Berlin of Allied Occupation Zones in Germany....
.

In the mid-twentieth century, the city's Trade Fair assumed renewed importance as a point of contact with the Comecon

Comecon

The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance , 1949?1991, was an economic organization of communist states and a kind of Eastern Bloc equivalent to?but more geographically inclusive than—the European Economic Community....
Eastern Europe economic bloc, of which East Germany was a member.

In October 1989, after prayer

Prayer

Prayer is the act of communicating with a deity or spirit in worship. Specific forms of this may include praise, requesting divine providence, confessing sins, as an act of reparation or an expression of one's emotional expression....
s for peace

Peace

Peace is a term that most commonly refers to an absence of aggression, violence or hostility, but which also represents a larger concept wherein there are healthy or newly-healed interpersonal relationship or international relations, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in political re...
at St. Nicholas' Church

St. Nicholas' Church, Leipzig

The St. Nikolaikirche has long beenone of the most famous in Leipzig, and rose to national fame with the Monday demonstrations in GDR in 1989 when it became the centre of the revolution....
, established in 1983 as part of the peace movement, the Monday demonstrations

Monday demonstrations in East Germany

The Monday demonstrations in East Germany in 1989 and 1990 were a series of peaceful political protests against the authoritarian government of the German Democratic Republic of East Germany that took place every Monday evening....
started as the most prominent mass protest against the East German regime.

Leipzig was the German candidate for the 2012 Summer Olympics

2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, are due to be celebrated in London in the United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012....
, but did not make it to the short list.

Music in Leipzig

see also :Category:Music from Leipzig

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
worked in Leipzig from 1723 to 1750, at the St. Thomas Lutheran church, and Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
the composer was born in Leipzig in 1813, in the Brühl

Brühl (Leipzig)

The Br?hl is a street in Leipzig, Germany, just within the limits of the former city wall....
. Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
was also active in Leipzig music, having been invited by Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
when the latter established Germany's first musical conservatoire in the city in 1843.

This conservatoire is today the . A broad range of subjects can be studied, both artistic and teacher training, in all orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
l instruments, voice, interpretation, coaching, piano chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber....
, orchestral conducting, choir conducting and musical composition

Musical composition

Musical composition is:* an original piece of music* the musical form of a musical piece* the process of creating a new piece of music...
. Musical styles include jazz, popular music, musicals, early music and church music. The drama departments teach acting and dramaturgy

Dramaturgy

Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama....
. Advanced students may, after a test, stand in for members of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. As at 2006, approximately 900 students were enrolled at the school.

The city's musical tradition is also reflected in the worldwide fame of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the choir of the St. Thomas Church

Thomanerchor

The Thomanerchor is a choir featuring boy sopranos in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. At the present time, the choir consists of 92 boys from 9 to 18 years of age....
.

Bill and Tom Kaulitz - the founding members of modern rock band Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel [] is a German band founded in Magdeburg, Germany in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Sch?fer and bassist Georg Listing....
- also originate from Leipzig, although no longer live there.

Main sights

St Thomas' Church
St. Thomas' Church, Leipzig

The Thomaskirche is a Evangelical Church in Germany church in Leipzig, Germany. It is most famous as the place where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a Cantor , and where his remains currently lie....
(Thomaskirche): Most famous as the place where Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
worked as a cantor
Cantor (church)

A cantor or chanter is the chief singer employed in a church with responsibilities for the ecclesiastical choir; also called the precentor....
and home to the renowned Thomaner choir
Völkerschlachtdenkmal
Völkerschlachtdenkmal

The V?lkerschlachtdenkmal is a monument in Leipzig, Germany, to the Battle of Leipzig of 1813, also known as the Battle of the Nations. It is one of Leipzig's main landmarks and the largest monument in Europe....
(Battle of the Nations Monument): the largest war 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
Leipzig Debate

The Leipzig Debate was a theological disputation originally between Andreas Karlstadt and Johann Eck. Eck, a staunch defender of Roman Catholic Church doctrine, had challenged Karlstadt to a public debate concerning the doctrines of free will and grace....
between Johann Eck
Johann Eck

Dr. Johann Maier von Eck was a 16th century theology and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck who argued that the beliefs of Martin Luther and Jan Hus were similar....
and Martin Luther
Martin Luther

Martin Luther was a Germans monk, theology, university professor, priest, father of Protestantism, and Protestant Reformers whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western culture....
in 1519
City-Hochhaus Leipzig
City-Hochhaus Leipzig

City-Hochhaus , at a height of 142.5 metres, is the tallest building in the city of Leipzig, and the tallest multistory building erected in the former East Germany....
: built in 1972, it was once part of the university and is the city's tallest building
Auerbach's Keller
Auerbachs Keller

Auerbachs Keller is the best known and second oldest restaurant in Leipzig. Auerbachs Keller most notably appeared in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe play Faust, Part 1, as the first place Mephistopheles takes Faust on their travels....
: a young Goethe ate and drank here while studying in Leipzig; it is the venue of a scene from his Faust
Goethe's Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragedy Play . It was published in two parts: ' and ' . The play is a closet drama, meaning that it is meant to be read rather than performed....
Städtisches Kaufhaus
Städtisches Kaufhaus

The St?dtisches Kaufhaus in Leipzig, designed by Rayher, Korber and M?ller, was constructed from 1894 to 1901....
(municipal department store): the world's first sample fair building and today home to offices, retail stores, restaurants and interim
Interim

Interim is an album by British rock band The Fall , compiled from live and studio material and released in 2004. It features the first officially released versions of "Clasp Hands", "Blindness" and "What About Us?" ? all of which were later included on the band's next studio album Fall Heads Roll ? as well as the instrumental "I'm Ro...
classrooms for the University of Leipzig
University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest University in Europeand currently the List_of_universities_in_Germany#Universities_by_age university in Germany....
(its name is misleading, as it is privately owned)
Bundesverwaltungsgericht
Federal Administrative Court of Germany

The Federal Administrative Court is one of the five federal supreme courts of Germany. It is the federal court of appeals for generally all cases of administrative law, mainly disputes between citizens and the state....
: Germany's federal administrative court was the site of the Reichsgericht
Reichsgericht

The Reichsgericht was the highest court of the Deutsches Reich. It was established on October 1, 1879 when the Reichsjustizgesetze came into effect, building a widely regarded body of jurisprudence....
, the highest state court between 1888 and 1945

Among Leipzig's noteworthy institutions are the opera house

Oper Leipzig

Oper Leipzig is an opera house and opera company in Leipzig, Germany.The Leipzig Opera traces its establishment to the year 1693, making it the third opera venue in Europe after La Fenice and the Hamburg State Opera ....
and the Leipzig Zoo, the latter of which houses the world's largest facilities for primate

Primate

A primate is a member of the biological order Primates , the group that contains lemurs, the Aye-aye, Lorisidaes, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes, with the last category including humans....
s. The Church of St. Nicholas

St. Nicholas' Church, Leipzig

The St. Nikolaikirche has long beenone of the most famous in Leipzig, and rose to national fame with the Monday demonstrations in GDR in 1989 when it became the centre of the revolution....
(Nikolaikirche) was the starting point of peaceful Monday demonstrations

Monday demonstrations

Monday demonstrations, peaceful political demonstrations that take place every Monday evening, in Germany:* Monday demonstrations in East Germany in 1989 and 1990, protests against the socialist government of the German Democratic Republic ...
for the reunification of Germany. Leipzig's international trade fair

Leipzig Trade Fair

Education

Leipzig University, founded 1409, is one of Europe's oldest universities. Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
laureate Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg was a German Theoretical physics who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory....
worked here as a physics professor (from 1927 to 1942), as did Nobel Prize laureates Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz....
(physics), Wilhelm Ostwald

Wilhelm Ostwald

Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities....
(chemistry) and Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a Germany classics, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century....
(Nobel Prize in literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
). Other former staff of faculty include mineralogist Georg Agricola

Georg Agricola

Georgius Agricola was a Germany scholar and scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy", he was born at Glauchau in Saxony. His real name was Georg Pawer; Agricola is the Latinised version of his name, Pawer/ meaning farmer....
, writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a Germany writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era....
, philosopher Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch

Ernst Simon Bloch was a Germany Marxism Philosophy.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W....
, eccentric founder of psychophysics

Psychophysics

Psychophysics is a subdiscipline of psychology dealing with the relationship between physical stimulus and their subjectivity correlates, or percepts....
Gustav Theodor Fechner, and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a Germany medical doctor, psychologist, physiologist, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology....
. Among the university's many noteworthy students were writers Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner

Erich K?stner was one of the most famous German language literature, screenplay writers, and Satire of the 20th century. His popularity in Germany is primarily due to his humorous and perceptive children's literature and his often satirical poetry....
, philosophers Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a Germany polymath who wrote primarily in Latin and French language.He occupies an equally grand place in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics....
and Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century philosophy Germans philosophy and classical philology. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism....
, political activist Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht

was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartakusbund and the Communist Party of Germany....
, and composer Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Angela Merkel

, is the Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 9 April 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005....
, studied physics at . The university has about 30,000 students.

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 "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 of computer sciences, mathematics, business administration, library sciences, museum studies, and social work. It is mainly located in the south of the city.

The private Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL)

Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL)

Handelshochschule Leipzig is a private business school in the German state of Saxony. Also known as the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, it is one of the world's oldest business schools, having been established in 1898....
, or Leipzig Graduate School of Management, is the oldest business school in Germany.

Among the research institutes located in Leipzig three belong to the Max Planck Society

Max Planck Society

The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur F?rderung der Wissenschaften e. V. is an independent non-profit association of Germany research institutes funded by the federal and state governments....
(for , and ) and two are Fraunhofer Society

Fraunhofer Society

The Fraunhofer Society is a Germany research organization with 58 institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science ....
institutes. Others are the , part of the , and the Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research.

Economy

Companies in or around Leipzig include:

Amazon
Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce company in Seattle, Washington. It is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the internet sales revenue of runner up Staples, Inc....
Blüthner
Blüthner

Bl?thner, formally Julius Bl?thner Pianofortefabrik GmbH, is a piano-manufacturing company founded by Julius Bl?thner in 1853 in Leipzig Germany....
: piano-manufacturing
BMW
BMW

, is an independent German automotive industry founded in 1916. It also produces BMW Motorrad, is the owner of the MINI brand and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars....
Porsche
Porsche

Porsche SE or Porsche is a Germany automotive industry of luxury vehicle automobiles, which is majority-owned by the Porsche family and Pi?ch families....
Siemens
Siemens AG

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate . Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany....
DHL
DHL

DHL Express , is a division of Deutsche Post World Net providing international express mail services....

Many bars, restaurants and stores found in the "centre city" region rely on German and foreign tourists. The railway 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 in order to celebrate their 600th anniversary.

DHL

DHL

DHL Express , is a division of Deutsche Post World Net providing international express mail services....
is in the process of transferring the bulk of its European air operations from Brussels Airport

Brussels Airport

Brussels Airport is an international airport located in Zaventem, near Brussels, Belgium. The airport is a hub to Brussels Airlines, European Air Transport, Jet Airways, Singapore Airlines Cargo, Eva Air Cargo and Saudi Arabian Airlines....
to Leipzig/Halle Airport

Leipzig/Halle Airport

Leipzig/Halle Airport sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport serves both Leipzig, Saxony and Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany....
. The airport is also a major source of income for the area and offers many flights daily through Lufthansa, Germany's main carrier.

Media

MDR
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk [Central German Broadcasting] is the public broadcasting for the German L?nder of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt....
, 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 that was 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
German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic was a self-declared socialist state created in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany and the East Berlin of Allied Occupation Zones in Germany....
, the most notable of them being branches of Brockhaus
Brockhaus

Brockhaus may refer to:* Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus , German encyclopedia publisher and editor** Brockhaus Enzyklop?die, German-language encyclopedia...
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
German National Library

The German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. Its task, unique in Germany, is to collect, permanently archive, comprehensively document and record bibliographically all German and German-language publications from 1913 on, foreign publications about Germany...
.

Annual events

Auto Mobil International (AMI) motor show
AMITEC, trade fair for vehicle maintenance, care, servicing and repairs in Germany and Central Europe
A capella: vocal music festival
Bachfest: Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
-festival
Christmas market (since 1767)
Dokfestival
International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film

The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film , also known as the Leipzig DOK Festival, is a film festival that takes place annually in Leipzig, Germany....
: international festival for documented and animated film
GC - Games Convention
Games Convention

The Games Convention sometimes called the Leipzig Games Convention, and abbreviated as GC, is an annual video game event in Leipzig, Germany, first held in 2002....
: video game & developers convention
Jazztage: contemporary jazz festival
: (August) Emancipatoric, feminist Punk & Electro Festival
Leipzig Book Fair
Leipzig Book Fair

The Leipzig Book Fair is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony....
: the second largest German book fair
Stadtfest: city festival
Wave-Gotik-Treffen at Pentecost
Pentecost

Pentecost is one of the prominent feasts in the Christianity liturgical year, celebrated the 49th day after Easter Sunday?or the 50th day, inclusively, whence its name is derived from the Greek....
: world's largest goth or "dark culture" festival

Sport

The German Football Association (DFB) was founded in Leipzig in 1900. The city was the venue for the 2006 FIFA World Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th instance of the FIFA World Cup, the Anniversary#Latin-derived numerical names international football world championship tournament....
draw, and hosted four first-round matches and one match in the last 16th round in the football club FC Sachsen Leipzig

FC Sachsen Leipzig

FC Sachsen Leipzig is a Germany soccer List of football clubs in Germany playing in Leipzig, Saxony. The roots of the club go back to 1899 and the founding of Britannia Leipzig....
's home stadium Zentralstadion

Zentralstadion

The Zentralstadion , located in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, is the home of FC Sachsen Leipzig. The club is currently playing in the fourth-tier Oberliga Nordost-S?d....
. Leipzig also hosted the Fencing

Fencing

Fencing is a family of sports and activities that feature armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or slapping Club ing weapons that are directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned....
World Cup in 2005 and hosts a number of international competitions in a variety of sports each year.

VfB Leipzig, now 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

Lokomotive Leipzig

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig is a Germany football List of football clubs in Germany based in the city of Leipzig, Saxony and may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Leipzig, the first national champions of Germany....
, won the first national football championship in 1903.

Two-time World Cup Uneven Bars Champion and Olympic Medalist (1976

Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Artistic gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events: 6 for women and 8 for men. All the events were held at the Montreal Forum from July 18 to July 23....
, 1980

Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Artistic gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events: 6 for women and 8 for men. All the events were held at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports from July 20 to July 25....
) in gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique ....
, Steffi Kraker

Steffi Kraker

Stefanie "Steffi" Kraker is a retired East German gymnast who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and 1980 Olympic Games.Kraker began competing on the East Germany national team in 1976....
was born in Leipzig.

In 2004, Leipzig made a bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The bid did not make the final cut after the IOC paired the bids down to 5, which eventually was won by London. It was the first Summer Olympic Bid by Germany since Berlin bidded for the 2000 Summer Olympics which was awarded to Sydney, Australia.

Markkleeberger See

Markkleeberger See

Markkleeberger See is a lake in Saxony, Germany, next to Markkleeberg, a suburb on the south side of Leipzig. At an elevation of 112.5 m, its surface area is 2.52 km?....
is a new lake next to Markkleeberg

Markkleeberg

Markkleeberg is a town in the Leipzig district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Plei?e, approx. 7 km south of Leipzig....
, 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

Artificial whitewater

An artificial whitewater course is a site for whitewater canoeing, whitewater kayaking, whitewater racing, whitewater rafting, playboating and slalom canoeing with artificially generated rapids....
slalom course, the Kanupark Markkleeberg, a venue which rivals the Eiskanal

Eiskanal

The Eiskanal is an artificial Artificial whitewater feature in the city of Augsburg that was constructed as the whitewater canoeing and whitewater kayaking venue for the 1972 Summer Olympics that were hosted in Munich, Germany....
in Augsburg

Augsburg

Augsburg is an Independent City city in the south-west of Bavaria. The College town is home of the Regierungsbezirk Swabia and also of the Swabia and the Augsburg ....
for training and international canoe/kayak competition.

Transportation

Leipzig Central station

Leipzig Hauptbahnhof

is the central railway station in the Germany city of Leipzig. At 83,460 m?, it is the largest terminal station in Europe sizewise. It sees an average of 150,000 passengers per day....
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. In the vicinity of the city are two airports: Leipzig/Halle Airport

Leipzig/Halle Airport

Leipzig/Halle Airport sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport serves both Leipzig, Saxony and Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany....
and Leipzig-Altenburg Airport (Thuringia

Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen States of Germany ....
).

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
Goethe's Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragedy Play . It was published in two parts: ' and ' . The play is a closet drama, meaning that it is meant to be read rather than performed....

Twin cities

Leipzig is twinned with:

Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union and its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity. It is also the largest city in Ethiopia....
, Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
since 2004
Birmingham
Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
() since 1992
Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
since 1962, renewed in 1997
Brno
Brno

Brno is the second-largest city in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1243, although the area had been settled since the 5th century. Today Brno has 403,304 inhabitants and is the seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, Supreme Administrative Court, Supreme Prosecutor's Office and Ombudsman....
, Czech Republic
Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
since 1973, renewed in 1999
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
since 1990
Hanover
Hanover

Hanover or Hannover#Definitions , on the river Leine, is the capital city of the Federal states of Germany of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the House of Hanover, in their dignities as the dukes of Brunswick-L?neburg ....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
since 1987
White Bear Lake
White Bear Lake

White Bear Lake is the name of a city and two townships in Minnesota* White Bear Lake, Minnesota is located in Ramsey County, Minnesota, Minnesota;...
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
since 1993
Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
since 1961, renewed in 1992
Kraków
Kraków

Krak?w , in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow , is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,336 in 2007 ....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
since 1973, renewed in 1995
Lyon
Lyon

||-||}Lyon, also known as Lyons in English, is a city in east-central France. Its name is pronounced in French language and Franco-Proven?al language, and or in English language....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
since 1981
Nanjing
Nanjing

is the capital city of China's Jiangsu province of China, and a city with a prominent place in Chinese history and Chinese culture. Nanjing served as the capital of China during several historical periods and is listed as one of the Historical capitals of China....
, China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
since 1988
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki , Thessalonica, or Salonica is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country in Greece and the capital of Macedonia , the nation's largest Regions of Greece....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
since 1984
Travnik
Travnik

Travnik is a city and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90 km west of Sarajevo. It is the capital of the Central Bosnia Canton, and is located in the Travnik Municipality....
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
since 2003
Plovdiv
Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, with a population of 379,119. It is the administrative centre of Plovdiv Province in southern Bulgaria and three municipalities , as well as the largest and most important city in Northern Thrace and the wider international historical region of Thrace....
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
since 1975, renewed in 2007

Leipzig

History

Origins

The nineteenth century

The twentieth century

Music in Leipzig

Main sights

Education

Economy

Media

Annual events

Sport

Transportation

Quotations

Twin cities

See also

External links