Sights and Attractions in Leipzig

editor — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:26:00 +0000

SIGHTS Leipzig is the gateway to the ‘Vogtland’, ‘Thiiringer Wald’ and the Ore mountains (Erzgebierge). Eisleben, birthplace of Martin Luther, is not far away nor is Altenburg the Skat town with its castle and playing cards museum (Skat is a traditional German card game). In Leipzig are exhibition and congress halls, the university and the ‘Gewandhaus’ where the annual music festival takes place. The sailors loved to have cadets onboard because the cadets would be given all the grim and ghastly jobs that the sailors would otherwise have to do. The deck officers loved to have cadets onboard because they

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editor — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:48:00 +0000

HISTORY A business and handicraft settlement already existed here in the 11th century at the cross road of the important European trading routes protected by the Libzi Castle. In 1165 Leipzig had freedom of the town which enabled it to hold foreign trade fairs and is regarded as the birth certificate of the Leipzig Trade Fair which celebrated its 825th jubilee in 1990. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the many celebrities who studied at the University founded in 1409, the second oldest after Heidelberg. Johann Sebastian Bach also composed most of his work here (1685-1750). Let me show

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