Leipzig is situated in the fertile, low-lying Leipzig Basin, which has extensive deposits of lignite (brown coal). Although encircled by a belt of parks and gardens, the city is a major industrial centre and transport junction, and it lies at the core of the Halle-Leipzig metropolitan agglomeration. The countryside around the city consists of a plain that is intensively farmed.

Short: whoever saw Leipzig before the change will hardly recognize the city. Of course, also tracks of Leipzig are GDR-in the time of present.

The Old Town Hall, one of the most beautiful buildings of the German Renaissance, houses the City History Museum, one of Germany 's largest cultural history museums with a particularly rich collection.

Fascinating insights into the era of Johann Sebastian Bach.Bach's Leipzig responsibility was primarily the education of several hundred boys in the St. Thomas School . But, because these boys were also choristers in the various churches of Leipzig , Bach was also responsible for the music in the town's four churches: St. Nicolas, St. Thomas , St. Matthew (the "New") and St. Peters. Bach himself was personally responsible to direct the music at St. Thomas and St. Nicolas. On the average he had about 55 boys in the Thomas school choir, who alternated singing at the two churches, one cantata every two weeks. Bach also supervised a prefect who directed second-string choirs at the other two churches.

Site of the Peace Prayer Services that marked the beginning of the peaceful revolution for the reunification of Germany in 1989.

Home of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who also died here.