The best city hikes and walks around Auensee

This castle is located near Rose Hill (open to visitors). It's wonderful to sit in the castle garden, enjoy the beauty, and let the peace naturally return. The café is also highly recommended.

☆ Small, inconspicuous castle with a castle park... no access from the outside. The only way to get to the park is through the building... unfortunately, everything was locked.

The Goethe Monument in Leipzig is a bronze statue standing on a high pedestal in the Naschmarkt square in front of the Old Stock Exchange. It depicts Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) as a young man, referring to his almost three years of study in Leipzig. It was created by Carl Seffner (1861–1932).

St. Nicholas' Church (officially: City and Parish Church of St. Nicholas) is the oldest and largest church in Leipzig's city center and, alongside St. Thomas Church, the city's most famous church. Named after St. Nicholas, the sacred building is the main church of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Nicholas Parish in Leipzig. The redesign and furnishing of St. Nicholas' Church's interior represents a significant work of Neoclassicism. St. Nicholas' Church from the northeast with the St. Nicholas Column (August 2010) The congregation of St. John's Church, whose building burned down as a result of the bombing of Leipzig on December 4, 1943, and was demolished in 1949, has since been part of the St. Nicholas Parish.[1] The Holy Cross Church in Leipzig's Neustadt district is, alongside St. Nicholas' Church, the second church of the St. Nicholas Parish. In the autumn of 1989, St. Nicholas Church was the central starting point of the peaceful revolution in the GDR, with the subsequent fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990.

Burgplatz is considered the newest square in the historic old town. It was only created around 1900, when the Pleissenburg Castle was demolished to make way for the construction of the New Town Hall for the growing city. During World War II, the entire peripheral development was destroyed or severely damaged, leaving only the Town Hall and City Hall. Restoration of the urban square began after 1990. The peripheral development was supplemented by new buildings, some of which retained the character of the original structure.

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Starting with the prayers for peace in St. Nicholas Church, protests against the GDR regime took over public space in 1989. A column from the nave, crowned with palm fronds, was recreated on the square in 1999. The 16-meter-high project by Leipzig artist Andreas Stötzner symbolically carries the idea of departure out of the church. The palm fronds on the top of the column represent the peacefulness of the goals. The column is part of the design with which Stötzner won an international competition for the design of the square, announced in 1992 by the Leipzig Cultural Foundation and the city. The column was created by Leipzig sculptor Markus Gläser. Two-thirds of the funding came from donations from citizens, companies and institutions. The church and square are particularly important for the Peaceful Revolution of 1989.

In the autumn of 1989, St. Nicholas Church was the central starting point of the peaceful revolution in the GDR, which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990. The Monday demonstrations, which were directed against the GDR regime, developed from the Monday prayers that had been taking place in St. Nicholas Church since November 1982 and were initially attended by only a few people. In late November 1982, a large display board with the symbol of swords into plowshares was put up in public for the first time in the GDR in St. Nicholas Church. At the end of the 1980s, tens of thousands, sometimes even more than 100,000 people, took to the streets of Leipzig every week during the Monday demonstrations to demonstrate for democracy, free elections, freedom of travel, and the unity of Germany.