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Vintage-Views Antique Prints and Maps :: Antique Prints :: Architectural :: Modern Architecture :: LEIPZIG BUILDINGS, LEIPZIGER BAUTEN, GERMAN HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE PRINT,1894 Original Antique Wood Engraving

LEIPZIG BUILDINGS, LEIPZIGER BAUTEN, GERMAN HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE PRINT,1894 Original Antique Wood Engraving

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Leipzig (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state of Saxony in Germany .The name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the linden trees stand". It is situated at the confluence of the Rivers Pleiße, White Elster and Parthe.First documented in 1015, and endowed with city and market privileges in 1165, the city of Leipzig has fundamentally shaped the history of Saxony and of Germany. Leipzig has always been known as a place of commerce. The Leipzig Trade Fair, which began in the middle ages, became an event of international importance; especially as a point of contact to the East-European economic bloc (Comecon) of which East Germany was a member. The foundation of the University of Leipzig in 1409 initiated the city's development into a center of German law and the publishing industry, and towards being a location of the Reichsgericht (Supreme Court), and the German National Library (founded in 1912). Johann Sebastian Bach worked in Leipzig from 1723 to 1750, at the St. Thomas Lutheran church, and Richard Wagner, the composer, was born in Leipzig in 1813. Later in the same year, the Leipzig region was the arena of the Battle of the Nations. Having been a terminal of the first German long distance railroad (1839, to Dresden, the capital of Saxony), Leipzig became a hub of Central-European railroad traffic, with a renowned station building, now the largest terminal station (by area) in Europe. Leipzig expanded rapidly towards one million inhabitants. Huge Gründerzeit areas were built, which survived, for the greater part, the War and after war demolitions. Nowadays these areas are unique in modern Germany. The decline of the number of inhabitants however remain a threat to these precious rich decorated remains of once Imperial Germany. Source: Press The first German labour party, the General German Workers' Association (in German Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded in Leipzig on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle; about 600 workers from across Germany travelled to it using the new railway line. 1. The Peterskirche (St. Peter Church) was built between 1882-1885 by the architects Hartel and Lipsius in Gothic style. 2. LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3. MUNICIPAL MUSEUM - LANGE 4. ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC - H. LICHT 5. CONCERT HOUSE - GROPIUS AND SCHMIEDEN 6. BOOKSELLERS EXCHANGE - KAYSER AND V. GROßHEIM

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