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Actually its a small hotel near the centre. I like a bit of successful modernarchitecture in between the older buildings.

Bismarck Tower

The tower was finally finished just after WW1 started. It's one of 23 in Saxony , 146 in Germany and there are or were another 100 or so in the rest of the world, that were erected by his admirers.

graffiti

It's a real menace here, any available surface is used and mostly it's crap, often however real artists display their talent and these are often commissioned to paint a wall like this one in Schkeuditz as a protection against the vandals.

Volkerschlachtdenkmal

History was always written by the victors: This huge edifice was erected just before the First World War to comemorate the defeat of Napoleon at Leipzig on 18th Oct 1813.
Here in Saxony we were on Napoleon's side.

Happy 200th Birthday Mendelssohn

His importance to Leipzig is even today not so well appreciated as it should be. As well as his own work he is recognised as the key factor in reviving public interest in the works of many older composers such as Bach and schubert among others. This is one of very few memorials to him here. It's outside the house where he lived.

The Botanic Garden

Even in winter we love to visit the garden, and as you see, yesterday we were rewarded with this beautiful specimen through the glasshouse window.

the biggest station in Europe?

Of course it depends how you set the parameters, it has 25 platforms but the daily traffic isn't so heavy as many other stations. The glass roof is supposed to be bigger than the Millenium Dome in London and under the central platform in the picture is an excellent and very big two level shopping centre.