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The Budde-Haus is a socio-cultural center in the Gohlis district of Leipzig, Germany. The house was built in 1890-91 as a residence for the Bleichert family and has been used as a cultural center since 1956. It has been a listed building since 1973 and is an important example of late 19th-century architecture in Germany. Since 1993 it has been one of eleven socio-cultural centers in Leipzig.

The Northern Rietzschke (German: Nördliche Rietzschke) is a river of Saxony, Germany.

Gohlis is an area in the north of the city of Leipzig, Germany. Once a village outside the city, it is known as the place where Friedrich Schiller wrote the first version of his Ode to Joy in 1785. It urbanised during the Gründerzeit period of the 19th century and was incorporated into the city of Leipzig in 1890. Dominated by residential buildings from the late-19th and first half of the 20th century, Gohlis has a population of more than 45,000 inhabitants (2020).

Leipzig Coppiplatz (German: Haltepunkt Leipzig Coppiplatz) is a railway station located in Leipzig, Germany. The station is located on the Leipzig–Großkorbetha railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn. Since December 2013 the station is served by the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland.

The Schillerhaus is a small former farmhouse in the Leipzig district of Gohlis (Menckestraße 42). Friedrich Schiller lived on the upper floor of the house in the summer of 1785. He worked here on the 2nd act of Don Carlos, edited the Fiesco and wrote the first version of the poem "An die Freude", which he later completed in Dresden. The building is the oldest preserved farmhouse in the Leipzig city area and a memorial that is a branch of the Leipzig City History Museum.

The Kongreßhalle Leipzig (written as a proper name after the old spelling) is an event building with several halls on Pfaffendorfer Straße in Leipzig directly next to the entrance to the Leipzig Zoo. Inaugurated in 1900 as the zoo's social hall, the building served as one of Leipzig's most important event venues for more than eight decades. After a long period of vacancy, it was extensively renovated and converted between 2001 and 2015.

The Memorial to Jewish Citizens in Leipzig, Germany, is a memorial stone that commemorates the deportation of Jewish citizens from Leipzig to the concentration camps after Kristallnacht in 1938. It is located at the western end of the street named Parthenstrasse next to the Parthe flood ditch, where the victims were herded together before their march to the Leipzig main train station, immediately next to the bridge of the Pfaffendorfer Strasse diagonally opposite the entrance to the Zoological Garden. It is under cultural heritage protection. It was created on the initiative of the Ecumenical Working Group of Leipzig Churches and was set up in November 1988 to mark the 50th anniversary of the terrible event. It was designed by the Dresden sculptor Peter Makolies (b. 1936). The monument is a 1.30 m (4.3 ft) tall stele with a rectangular cross section on a polished square granite slab. The rock of the stele, black Lobenstein diabase, was chosen with symbolic character, as diabase means transition in Greek. A Star of David is sculpted on the slightly curved front of the stone. The left, eastern side bears the inscription in German language: HIER IN DIESEM GRABEN WURDEN IM JAHRE 1938 JÜDISCHE BÜRGER VOR IHRER DEPORTATION ZUSAMMENGETRIEBEN.This means in English: HERE IN THIS TRENCH WERE IN 1938 JEWISH CITIZENS BEFORE THEIR DEPORTATION DRIVEN TOGETHER.On the opposite side, arranged vertically, is: WO IST DEIN BRUDER?In English: WHERE IS YOUR BROTHER?and below horizontally GENESIS 4:9

Leipzig Zoological Garden, or Leipzig Zoo is a zoo in Leipzig city, Germany. It was first opened on June 9, 1878. It was taken over by the city of Leipzig in 1920 after World War I and now covers about 27 hectares (67 acres) and contains approximately 850 species. By 2020 the zoo featured six different theme worlds, aiming at providing habitats appropriate for the species on display. Leipzig zoo is internationally noted for its large building projects such as Pongoland (housing gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobo and orangutans) and Gondwanaland (world's second largest indoor rainforest hall at 1.65 ha or 4.1 acres). It has bred more than 2,000 lions, 250 rare Siberian tigers, and other carnivores like bears. Leipzig Zoological Garden has been called the "Zoo of the future". It is ranked as the best zoo in Germany and also the second-best in Europe (after Vienna).

At 96.8 m (318 ft) tall, The Westin Leipzig is actually at the second rank of the tallest buildings in Leipzig. The house, built for the GDR hotel operator Interhotel as Hotel Merkur, has belonged to the Starwood hotel chain since 2003, and since the takeover it has now belonged to the Marriott group. It has 436 rooms on 27 floors, of which 17 are guest floors and 3 are office floors. There is a swimming pool and a wellness area on the 4th floor. The building houses the Gusto, Brühl and Falco restaurants and the Shinto bar/lounge.

The Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig ("City and Regional Saving Bank of Leipzig") is a German public bank, a type of savings bank, based in Leipzig, Saxony. It is one of the largest financial institutions in the new German Länder.

Leipzig, a city in the German state of Saxony, has historically been a center for Jews. Jewish communities in Leipzig existed as early as the 13th century. Discrimination against the Jews of Leipzig was recorded as early as 1349 and perpetuated under Nazi influence. Despite mass Jewish deportations and emigration forced by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, Leipzig's Jewish community began to grow again in 1945 and continues to grow today.

The Rosental is a 118 ha (290 acres), park-like part of the northern Leipzig floodplain forest in Leipzig, Germany. It is bordered by the Elstermühlgraben (Elster mill ditch) to the south and west, the small river Parthe to the north and the Leipzig Zoo to the east.