Natural History Museum, Leipzig

Richard-Wagner-Platz is a square in Leipzig in the northwest of Leipzig city centre. The square is named after the composer Richard Wagner, whose house of birth was nearby.

The Altes Theater was the first theatre building in the German city of Leipzig. It was sited on Richard-Wagner-Platz.

The Richard Wagner Memorial in Leipzig was unveiled in 2013 to mark the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner (1813-1883). It was created by Stephan Balkenhol (* 1957) using the base designed 100 years ago by Max Klinger (1857-1920).

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 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.

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

St. Matthew was a church in the old town of Leipzig. During its history it had several names and functions. As a church of the Franciscan order, built in 1488, it was known as Barfüßerkirche and Heiliggeistkirche. It served as a Lutheran church, known as Neukirche, from 1699. A new congregation formed in 1876 and named the church Matthäikirche (St. Matthew). The building was destroyed in a bombing in 1943.

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.

Hainstrasse is a street in the northwest of the central quarter inside the Inner City Ring Road of Leipzig, Germany. It begins in the northwest corner of the Markt and leads almost in a straight line with a slight swing to the left in a north-northwest direction without any intersections to Brühl and Richard-Wagner-Platz.

The German Central Library for the Blind (German: Deutsches Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen, earlier Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde), abbreviated DZB, is a public library for the visually impaired located in the city of Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Its collection of 72,300 titles is amongst the largest in the German speaking countries. The institution consists of a lending library, a publishing house, and a research center for barrier-free communication. It also has production facilities for braille books, audiobooks, and braille music. The DZB publishes about 250 new titles annually. Founded in 1894, the DZB is the oldest library for the blind in Germany.

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).

The Barfußgäßchen is a 160 m (524.9 ft) long residential street in the city center of Leipzig. It connects the market with the Dittrichring and is one of the city's party miles.