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   St. Thomas Church

   The church where Bach was cantor from 1723 until his death in 1750, writing much of his sacred music for its choir — the Thomanerchor, founded in 1212 and still singing. His remains were moved into the chancel in 1950.

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   Monument to the Battle of the Nations

   A monument of 1913 to the battle fought here in October 1813, in which about six hundred thousand men engaged and a hundred thousand fell — the largest battle in Europe before 1914. It is ninety-one metres high, deliberately oppressive, and five hundred steps climb it.

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   Leipzig Central Station

   Opened in 1915 with two separate halves for the Saxon and Prussian railways, twenty-six platforms and the largest floor area of any station in Europe. The upper concourse is now a shopping arcade, which sounds worse than it looks.

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   St. Nicholas Church

   The church in which peace prayers were held every Monday from 1982, and out of which the demonstrations of October 1989 grew — the crowd that left it on 9 October, seventy thousand strong, was not fired on, and the East German state effectively ended there.

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   Leipzig Zoological Garden

   A zoo of 1878 that has rebuilt itself almost entirely since 2000, most spectacularly with Gondwanaland — a hall of sixteen and a half thousand square metres under glass, kept at tropical humidity and crossed by boat.

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   Museum der bildenden Künste

   The city art museum, in a glass cube of 2004 on a square cleared by bombing. Its strengths are Cranach, Beckmann and Max Klinger, whose enormous polychrome Beethoven is the centrepiece, along with the painters of the Leipzig school.

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   Market Church of Our Dear Ladies

   A church of 1554 in Halle with four towers, made by joining two older churches. Luther preached in it, his death mask is kept in it, and Handel learned the organ on the instrument in its gallery.

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   Moritzburg

   A fortified castle of 1484 in Halle, built for the archbishop of Magdeburg and ruined in the Thirty Years' War. Its museum holds German expressionism — the collection was gutted by the Nazi purge of degenerate art in 1937 and has been rebuilt by purchase ever since.

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   St. Peter

   A neo-Gothic church of 1885 with the tallest spire in Leipzig at a hundred and eighteen metres. It replaced a medieval church of the same dedication and is now used for concerts as much as services.

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    Johanniskirche

    A church east of the centre, wrecked by bombing in 1943 and demolished by the East German authorities in 1963. Bach was buried in its graveyard in 1750; his remains were exhumed in 1894 and eventually moved to St Thomas.

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   Russian Orthodox Memorial Church

   Church in Leipzig consecrated in 1913 for the centenary of the Battle of the Nations, in which twenty-two thousand Russian soldiers died. Its tower copies a sixteenth-century Moscow church.

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   Paulinerkirche

   A university church of 1231 that survived the bombing intact and was dynamited by the East German authorities in May 1968 in the face of protest, to clear the square. A new university building of 2017 quotes its outline in white concrete.

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   Augustusplatz

   A square at the eastern end of central Leipzig in Germany. It is the largest in the city and among the largest in Europe, and is the hub of the ring road and the tram network.

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   Francke Foundations

   A charitable and educational foundation set up in Halle in 1695, whose baroque buildings still hold schools, a library and its original cabinet of curiosities — a room of shells, minerals, models and preserved animals arranged as a picture of creation, untouched since the eighteenth century.

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   Paulinum

   A building of the University of Leipzig in Germany. It was built from 2007 on the site of the Paulinerkirche, the university church that the East German government demolished in 1968, to a design by Erick van Egeraat.

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   Merseburg Cathedral

   A cathedral largely rebuilt in Gothic on eleventh-century foundations, whose library holds the Merseburg Incantations — two charms in Old High German that are the only pagan Germanic magic texts to survive in that language.

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   Händel-Haus

   House in Halle near Leipzig where Handel was born in 1685, a museum since 1948. It holds seven hundred historical instruments, among them a harpsichord he is thought to have played.

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   Leipzig Panometer

   A former gas holder in which a panorama over a hundred metres round and thirty high is hung, painted by Yadegar Asisi and changed every few years. Standing inside a gasometer looking at a painted city is stranger than it sounds and works.

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   Halle Cathedral

   The oldest surviving church in the old part of Halle, given a new gabled front by Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg from 1520 — the same prelate whose sale of indulgences prompted Luther's ninety-five theses. It is now Reformed.

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    New Bach monument

    A bronze of Johann Sebastian Bach by Carl Seffner, unveiled in 1908 against the south wall of St Thomas's, where he served as cantor for 27 years and where he is buried. The figure holds a rolled score, and one coat pocket hangs turned out.

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