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Welcomes in Leipzig - the Saxon trade fair metropolis. Leipzig lies in Germany's east, in the republic Saxony at confluence of magpie,
Pleiße and Parthe. 118 m N.N. lies highly Leipzig geographically in the Leipzig lowland-bay. Leipzig has approximately 497.500 inhabitants.
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city area includes a surface of 297 km². There is to visit diverse possibilities with car, track and airplane Leipzig today.
Together with Zwickau, Chemnitz, Dresden and hall, Leipzig forms the
Metropolregion Saxony-triangle." Sights: The visitor of this Leipzig's downtown often is more than surprised of Leipzig's beauty. Within few years, the old renaissance and Art Nouveau*-constructions of the venerable trade fair-city were restored in all of
beauty. Almost all sights of Leipzig leaves itself explore wonderfully on foot incidentally, not least, because relaxing lawns run through the city. --> Leipzig worth seeing & photos Culture: Artists and poets like Goethe, Lessing and Johann Sebastian Bach left her/its/their tracks in the city Leipzig, through which Leipzig turned into one of Germany's cultural strongholds. Leipzig's international reputation as music-city is narrow interconnected with the working the
garment-house-orchestra. In Leipzig, the orchestra makes music with the Thomas-choir in the Thomas-church and to the productions in the Leipzig opera moreover
together. Yearly climax is the brook-party taking place to ascension of Christ annually in Leipzig at the the domain of the famous Thomas-cantor Johann Sebastian Bach. Leipzig possesses a diverse museum-landscape worth seeing--> Leipzig museums The everyday cultural life happens above all in the downtown, the South-suburb (South-mile) and in the district Conn-joke. The city has a remarkable and active one --> Nightlife. Leipzig is regarded as stronghold of the Saxon Kabaret-Szene--> scene Leipzig Over Pentecost, Leipzig is
every year venue one of the biggest Gothic events, the Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT). Trade: Leipzig is historic
junction. At the crossing two army and trade routes lain, it developed into a naturally grown trade fair and commercial metropolis in the course of the centuries. Today, the city Leipzig is known over Germany's borders above all through the Leipzig trade fair. One of the most important trade fairs of the year, they consider automobile International, the Leipzig bookfair, that Games Convention Leipzig and the tourism-trade fair. Economic system: In Leipzig experienced important industry-settlements in the last years, among them Siemens, Porsche and BMW. Also companies of the communication and information-technologies, as subsidiaries of the Telekom (T-Systems) or the PC-ware INC. are located in
Leipzig. The sale-strongest east German company (2003): 3,3 bil. Euro, the energy-provider interconnected networks gas INC., also has his/its home office here. Beside Frankfurt on the Main, Munich and Stuttgart, Leipzig is regarded as nationwide meaningful bank-location. From 2008, the post office-freight-daughter's DHL international air-turnstile goes near the airport Leipzig in operation. Media: The parent store of the Central German radio, MDR, is resident in Leipzig. The media city, a studio-complex for television and film-productions at which the MDR are involved is here The private radio stations radio PSR, Energy Saxony, radio Saxony and Leipzig 91.3, the bar-radio of the university Mephisto 97.6 and the outside radio radio BLUE produce her/its/their program here. The city has also a local TV station - Leipzig sends television the clock around a local television-program for the trade fair-city. The Leipzig people-newspaper appears as regional daily newspaper. --> Leipzig-media
More information about Leipzig and tourism under:
Leipzig
Tourist Service e.V.
Richard-Wagner-Straße 1 D-04109
Leipzig
Tel. +49 (0)341 7104-260 / 265
Fax +49 (0)341 7104-271 / 276
Internet: www.lts-leipzig.de
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