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Leipzig New Lake area
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Leipzig New Lake area / 20 years ago the New Lake area was an empty place but it’s developing fast. Romance at the palace Güldengossa, fun at BELANTIS or history of industry at the mining-technique-park – there're a lot of reasons for visiting the Leipziger New Lake area. With the following pictures and the Trailer we would like to inspire you to visit the New Lake area. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5x7gqk2mAM&list=UU0wsTuBY6RLHSJh4iNk1s0g&index=3&feature=plcp Info: www.leipzigerneuseenland.de
Leipzig at night
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Leipzig at night / When the sun goes down a special atmosphere rises over Leipzig. We want to invite you to a stroll through the city at night. We hope you will enjoy the tour!
Romantic places in Leipzig
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Romantic places in Leipzig / At these places in Leipzig you get struck by Cupid's arrow – it’s assured! For all lovers we have a little selection of romantic locations in Leipzig. And for all those who aren´t in love with somebody right now we are sure you will like them nonetheless!
Towers and turrets of Leipzig
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Towers and turrets of Leipzig / A lot of buildings in Leipzig are decorated with architecturally important and very beautiful turrets. There are buldings of the Wilhelminian style but also modern houses. There are very few cities that have so many buildings with turrets. We hope you will enjoy our trip through the city of Leipzig with the worm's-eye view!
Richard Wagner in Leipzig
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Richard Wagner in Leipzig / Richard Wagner is the most famous composer of Leipzig. He was born on 22 May 1813 in the house "To the red and white lion" at the Brühl. In 1886 the house of his birth had to give way to new buildings. On 16 August 1813 Wagner has been baptised in the Thomas Church, later he went to school in Leipzig where he decided to become a musician. In 1878 his opus "Der Ring der Nibelungen" was enacted the first time near Bayreuth by what he gained the looked-for recognition from Leipzig.
Architectural highlights of Leipzig
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Architectural highlights of Leipzig / The Waldstrassen Quarter Leipzig is known as the biggest Wilhelminian style Quarter of Europe. After a long time of break-up it is now back to its old glory. It has got a lot of monuments and because of that it belongs to the most distinguished architecture of Germany. In this album we are presenting a selection of the most interesting buildings. Enjoy!
Meetings and Events in Leipzig
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Meetings and Events in Leipzig / Whether you are planning a seminar, a conference, a meeting, a symposium, a congress or another event, Leipzig is extending a warm welcome to you and your guests. www.do-it-at-leipzig.de
Leipziger Notenspur (Leipzig Music Trail)
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Leipziger Notenspur (Leipzig Music Trail) / Leipzig Music Trail connects the most important homes and workplaces of Leipzig's array of eminent composers by means of a visible trail leading through the city centre. The Trail is 5.3km (3.3miles) long and can be followed on foot. The bringing to life of Leipzig's music tradition-this is the aim of the Leipziger Notenspur-Initiative. The Leipzig City Council has since committed itself to the practical support of this objective,even providing for the prospective civic adoption of the project.
The beautiful hand-operated pumps of Leipzig
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The beautiful hand-operated pumps of Leipzig / When you take a walk in Leipzig you will see a lot of cast-iron pumps, which were installed in the 19th century. They displaced the wood pumps but used the same water ways. There were 282 public pumps of this kind and there 180 left today. In Leipzig there are five types of pumps, which we will present in this album. Enjoy!
Leipzig secrets
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Leipzig secrets / Old City Hall, Mädler arcade or Monument to the Battle of the Nations - every tourist in Leipzig vistis these attractions. But there is more! We thought about things in Leipzig that are not as well known as these attractions. In this album we want to present secret places in Leipzig that you can't find in every guidebook. Enjoy the discovery!
Beautiful autumn in Leipzig
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Beautiful autumn in Leipzig / The colorful leaves in golden light - autmn in Leipzig is just beautiful!
199. Anniversary of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig 1813
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199. Anniversary of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig 1813 / From 19.10. to 21.10.2012 the 199. Anniversary of the Battle of Nations in Leipzig 1813 was celebrated. Different clubs and societies form all over Europe gather to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of nations in 1813 and re-enact historical bivouacs and combat situtations. For more Information: www.1813voelkerschlacht.eu The new book "1813 - 1913 - 2013 - Leipzig and the Battle of the Nations" presents the event richly illustrated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXGyPOI1Sw
Festival of Lights 2013
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Festival of Lights 2013 / ’’How’s it Going? Through Prague!“ By tradition, the Leipzig Festival of Lights took place on the 9th of October at Augustusplatz. This year, under the headline, ‘’How’s it Going? Through Prague!’’ — this artistic and civic project looked into the theme, artistically and in terms of content, of the events in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (until 1989 ČSSR), among others, the Prague Spring in 1968 and the Embassy Occupation by GDR Refugees in Prague in 1989.
In the footsteps of Martin Luther in Leipzig
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In the footsteps of Martin Luther in Leipzig / At the 31th October some federal states in Germany celebrate the "Reformationstag" in mermory of the reformation of the church by Martin Luther. But what is the connection between Luther and Leipzig? In this Album you can find out!
Wave Gothic Festival Leipzig
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Wave Gothic Festival Leipzig / Like every year on Whitsun Goths from all over the world come together in Leipzig to celebrate the Wave-Gotik-Treffen. For many years, the festival has been celebrated as THE international gathering of the "dark family". It is the biggest gathering of its kind worldwide. All over the city there will be performing about 200 bands, projects and single artists covering the whole wide range of Gothic music. The inhabitants of Leipzig are familiar with the Treffen since 18 years.
Leipzig Videos
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Leipzig Videos
BELANTIS - Event park
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BELANTIS - Event park / Belantis is the largest theme park in eastern Germany, nearby Leipzig. With it's eight fascinating theme worlds it is worth a visit for kids and families. Besides thrilling roller-coasters, you can enjoy themed shows and a lot of other attractions for all generations. At the own lake you can go canoeing or discover the amusement park by boat.
Festival of Lights 2015
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Festival of Lights 2015 / "Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood?" This was the slogan of the festival of lights 2015. Every year on 9th October we remember the brave citizens who demonstrated peacefully in 1989 in Leipzig.
Churches in Leipzig
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Churches in Leipzig / The most beautiful churches and chapels in Leipzig.
Panorama Views
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Panorama Views / Breathtaking views from the rooftops of Leipzig
Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts
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Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts / Founded in 1858 and moved into the new building in 2004 the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts houses a significant collection of 3,500 paintings and 1,000 sculptures. Among others you can find Max Klinger’s “Beethoven”, one of the most important music-related opus of fine arts. The museum belongs to Germany’s oldest civic collections. One core theme is the art of the “Neue Leipziger Schule”, which is known to art lovers all over the world, and unites artists such as Neo Rauch and Matthias Weischer.
Leipzig: the city of music
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Leipzig: the city of music / Leipzig has an exceptional musical tradition: Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert and Clara Schumann all worked, and where Richard Wagner was born and received his musical training. And musical history is still being written in Leipzig today, with world-famous ensembles performing to audiences throughout the city, whether in the Gewandhaus, in St. Thomas Church or the Opera. The city's musical legacy is documented and maintained in a large number of museums.
GRASSI Museum of Ethnography
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GRASSI Museum of Ethnography / The Leipzig Museum of Ethnography is a large ethnographic museum in Leipzig, Germany. It is one of three museums in the Saxonian State Ethnographical Collections which belong to the Dresden State Art Collections. Today it is part of the Grassi Museum, an institution which also includes the Museum of Applied Arts and the Museum of Musical Instruments.
GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts
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GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts / The Museum of Applied Arts is the second oldest museum of decorative arts in Germany. Founded in 1874 as Museum of Arts and Crafts it moved into its present place, the New Grassi Building, in 1926. Its current name the museum received in 2005 and its new permanent exhibition opened in 2007. Besides three permanent exhibitions there are also special temporary displays and the famous “Grassimesse” each October.
Festival of Lights 2014
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Festival of Lights 2014 / Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution, for the first time the entire ring road turned into an area of art projects among which visitors moved around. Along the historical route of the demonstrators light, sound and video projections, dance, performance and music were established and challenged relations between 1989 and 2014. On a route of 3.6 kilometres, the interaction became visible and tangible at more than 20 stations, and visitors became participants.
Leipzig Mendelssohn House
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Leipzig Mendelssohn House / The famous composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy lived from 1835 until he died in 1847 in Leipzig. In 1845 he moved into the house in Goldschmidtstraße 12. It is the only building in the world reminding of the great musician. Today the reconstructed house contains a modern museum, opening hours are from 10am to 6pm. Every Sunday visitors can listen to classic concerts taking place in the historical music salon. Experience the musical tradition of Leipzig yourself!
Lake Markkleeberg Canoe Park
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Lake Markkleeberg Canoe Park / The canoe park in Markkleeberg was opened in April 2007 in front of 13,000 spectators. One of the most advanced whitewater centres in the world, in technical terms it's comparable with the Olympic whitewater venues in Sydney and Athens. It features a competition channel 270 metres (886 feet) long and a training run 130 metres (426 feet) in length with different degrees of difficulty.
ASISI PANOMETER LEIPZIG: "Leipzig 1813 - Amidst the Confusion of the Battle of the Nations“
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ASISI PANOMETER LEIPZIG: "Leipzig 1813 - Amidst the Confusion of the Battle of the Nations“ / Since 2003, the exhibition building asisi Panometer Leipzig - in charge of Yadegar Asisi - is presenting a monumental panoramic view each connected with a specific exhibition. The artificial word “Panometer” is a neologism formed out of ‘Panorama’ and ‘Gasometer’. The show is based on photographs, paintings and drawings which are turned into the huge panorama picture, by using digital techniques. There are other “Panometers” situated in Berlin, Dresden and Pforzheim.
Wave Gotik Treffen Leipzig 2014
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Wave Gotik Treffen Leipzig 2014 / Every year, the streets of Leipzig are swarming with people dressed all in black. All of a sudden, a black tram line starts operating, the shops in the city center start dressing their windows in black and the newspapers’ headlines are „Leipzig in black“. What’s going on? The Wave-Gotik-Treffen is back in town! The “WGT” is the world’s largest goth festival and takes place each year over 4 days on Whitsuntide. http://bit.ly/1lm8s8O
Hypezig
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Hypezig / The artists are moving away, some of them to Leipzig!
Hidden Leipzig - Eating & Drinking
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Hidden Leipzig - Eating & Drinking / Outside the centre, beyond the »inner city ring road«, to the north, east, south and west of the city of Leipzig, you can find exciting experiments and hidden highlights in the midst of wasteland and industrial monuments; in Gründerzeit glory, concrete tower blocks, and 21st century design.
Der Lutherweg in Sachsen
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Der Lutherweg in Sachsen / Der Lutherweg in Sachsen führt euch vor Augen, was sich zu Zeiten der Reformation in Sachsen zugetragen hat und welche Auswirkungen diese hatte. Gekennzeichnet mit einem grünen "L" auf weißem Grund, verbindet der Weg Luthers 27 Orte, an denen die Reformation ihre Spuren hinterlassen hat. Die Route führt auf einer Strecke von 550 Kilometern durch ansprechende Regionen wie das Leipziger Neuseenland sowie durch das sächsische Burgen- und Heideland.
Look behind the Scenes
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Look behind the Scenes / Here you can find some impressions of LTM's most important projects in 2013 and 2014. More information about LTM and our passion: www.leipzig.travel/blog
Leipzig Christmas Market
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Leipzig Christmas Market / Impressions of the Leipzig Christmas Market
200. Anniversary of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig 1813
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200. Anniversary of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig 1813 / From 16.10. to 20.10.2013 the 200. Anniversary of the Battle of Nations in Leipzig 1813 was celebrated. Different clubs and societies from all over Europe gather to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of nations in 1813 and re-enact historical bivouacs and combat situtations. For more Information: http://www.voelkerschlacht-jubilaeum.de/en/home.html
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The Kanupark Markkleeberg is located on the southeast shore of Lake Markkleeberg south of Leipzig. In 2015, the white-water rafting facility was voted among Germany’s 100 most popular tourist attractions. Photo: Kanupark Markkleeberg

The Kanupark Markkleeberg is located on the southeast shore of Lake Markkleeberg south of Leipzig. In the white-water rafting facility was voted among Germany’s 100 most popular tourist attractions.

The Kanupark Markkleeberg offers a lot of fun for anyone in search of adventure. Photo: Kanupark Markkleeberg

The Kanupark Markkleeberg offers a lot of fun for anyone in search of adventure.

Franz Anton and Jan Benzien, the reigning world champions in white-water slalom, regularly train at Kanupark Markkleeberg. Photo: Kanupark Markkleeberg

Franz Anton and Jan Benzien, the reigning world champions in white-water slalom, regularly train at Kanupark Markkleeberg.

An annual highlight is the Cardboard Boat Race: 15 teams build up their boats out of cardboard and compete against each other. In 2015, 8.000 visitors came to see this spectacular event. Photo: Kanupark Markkleeberg

An annual highlight is the Cardboard Boat Race: 15 teams build up their boats out of cardboard and compete against each other. In visitors came to see this spectacular event.

The Kanupark Markkleeberg is one of the world's most modern white-water parks. From a technical point of view, the artificial white-water slalom course can compare with the Olympic facilities in London, Sydney or Athens. Photo: Kanupark Markkleeberg

The Kanupark Markkleeberg is one of the world's most modern white-water parks. From a technical point of view, the artificial white-water slalom course can compare with the Olympic facilities in London, Sydney or Athens.

Linked to the exhibition “Eugène Delacroix and Paul Delaroche. History as a Sensation“, the collection of French contemporary art of the Leipzig silk merchant Adolph Heinrich Schletter is exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig

Linked to the exhibition “Eugène Delacroix and Paul Delaroche. History as a Sensation“, the collection of French contemporary art of the Leipzig silk merchant Adolph Heinrich Schletter is exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig

Impressive loans from various international museums, including the Louvre, are shown in Leipzig. The Kunsthalle Bremen lended Delacroix’ Faust-Cycle (1825-27)

Impressive loans from various international museums, including the Louvre, are shown in Leipzig. The Kunsthalle Bremen lended Delacroix’ Faust-Cycle

The exhibition at the Museum of Fine Art Leipzig presents a comparison between the two French history painters Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) and Paul Delaroche (1797 – 1856)

The exhibition at the Museum of Fine Art Leipzig presents a comparison between the two French history painters Eugène Delacroix - and Paul Delaroche –

Paul Delaroche’s masterpiece “Napoleon abdicating in Fontainebleau” is currently shown in the exhibition “Eugène Delacroix and Paul Delaroche. History as a Sensation“ at the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig until 17 January 2016.

Paul Delaroche’s masterpiece “Napoleon abdicating in Fontainebleau” is currently shown in the exhibition “Eugène Delacroix and Paul Delaroche. History as a Sensation“ at the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig until 17 January

The trailer to the Festival of Lights 2015.
At this year's Festival of lights sang the Choir of the Opera of Leipzig.
The TV-Journalist Pinar Atalay moderated the show.
The show was opened by Burkhard Jung, Oliver Bierhoff and Wolfgang Niersbach.

Fotos vom Lichtfest / Festival of Lights - Lichtfest

Oliver Bierhoff, manager of the German football team; Burkhard Jung, major of Liepzig and Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German Football Association (DFB) at the festival of lights.

Oliver Bierhoff, manager of the German football team; Burkhard Jung, major of Liepzig and Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German Football Association (DFB) at the festival of lights.

A shot of the rehearsal one day before the festival of lights.
Pinar Atalay interviews Oliver Bierhoff, Burkhard Jung and Wolfgang Niersbach.