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Leipzig – the Congress City
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| The Leipzig Fair - "trade shows made to measure" |
City of Bach | St Thomas's Boys Choir |
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| The Leipzig Fair celebrated as the "mother of all trade fairs" - 1996: new Leipzig Fair Exhibition Centre opened in the north of the city - 1997: 500th anniversary of its two annual markets being raised to the rank of imperial fairs - slogan: "trade shows made to measure". |
Johann Sebastian Bach was Leipzig's director of music and the cantor
of St. Thomas`s Church from 1723 until his death in 1750. His legacy is nurtured by institutions such as the Bach Archive, St. Thomas`s
Boys Choir and the Gewandhaus Orchestra. |
St. Thomas's Boys Choir emerged over 800 years ago from the church
services conducted at the former Augustinian monastery; nowadays it is rightly famous both in Germany and abroad. |
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| Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Gewandhaus concert hall | Leipzig Opera House | Goethe and Auerbachs Keller |
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| The Gewandhaus Orchestra, the oldest civic concert orchestra in Europe, has personified Leipzig for over 250 years and is now world-famous. | Dating back more than 300 years, the Leipzig Opera company is the second oldest opera in Germany. Devoted to the heritage of Richard Wagner, it often hosts pemières and other productions attracting Europe-wide attention. | Goethe, the father of German literature, studied in Leipzig between 1765 and 1768. A visitor to the Auerbachs Keller restaurant, he immort-alised it by entitling a scene in his play Faust "Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig". |
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| Old City Hall | Zum Arabischen Coffe Baum | Leipzig Central Station |
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| One of the most beautiful German Renaissance town halls, it was built in just nine months in 1556/57. | The oldest preserved café and restaurant in Europe to have been run continuously nowadays also contains a museum documenting the Saxons' proverbial love of coffee, their 'national drink'. | One of the largest European railway terminuses - now also housing an ultramodern shopping centre. |
| Mendelssohn House | Leipzig - cradle of the 1989 Peaceful Revolution | Monument to the Battle of the Nations |
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| Mendelssohn House is the only residence of composer Felix Mendelssohn still in existence. It is also the place where he died. Nowadays it is a museum containing exhibits such as his original furniture. | Leipzig is where the Peaceful Revolution in 1989 began. The demonstrations started on the square in front of St. Nicholas's Church, and then proceeded to Augustusplatz and the central ring road. Also worth visiting is the Stasi Museum. | The largest memorial in Europe and featuring a viewing platform at a height of 91m, it was erected to commemorate the 1813 Battle of Leipzig. |
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| Leipzig is situated in a continentally influenced low-lying area; average annual temperature +11.2°C; annual precipitation 511 mm; sunshine hours 1,675 h | ||
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| A tip of between 5% and 10% is customary. | ||
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| The currency in Germany is the euro (€). There are nomerous cash dispensers and bank branches available for currency exchange. | ||
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| Credit cards are accepted in hotels, restaurants and in many department stores and boutiques. | ||
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