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Leipzig is located about 150 km (90 mi) southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (the Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster and its tributaries Pleiße and Parthe. The Leipzig Riverside Forest, Europe's largest intra-city riparian forest, has developed along these rivers.
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
Map of Leipzig in 1876 The Battle of Leipzig in 1813. While Saxony had been an ally of France since 1806, the Battle of Leipzig took place in 1813, where the armies of Austrian Empire, Prussia, the Russian Empire and Sweden, reinforced by German patriots, inflicted a decisive defeat on Napoleon and his allies, among whom was the Kingdom of Saxony.
The five most important regions, collectively often called the Big Five, [4] [5] are frequently compared with other European metropolitan regions (EMR) in terms of investment and market development. [6]
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.
The area later called Alt-Leipzig (Old Leipzig) corresponds roughly, but not exactly, with today's Mitte borough. An important prerequisite for the development of its northwestern, western and southwestern areas were the plans of the hydraulic engineers Kohl and Georgi in the years 1852 to 1854 and the subsequent redesign of the Leipzig River ...
The Via Regia, along today's Ranstädter Steinweg and Jahnallee, was an old trade route that was protected by royal privileges. Hiberno-Scottish missionaries used the Via Regia as early as the 7th century and founded the St. Jacob's Chapel, the first chapel in what later became the city of Leipzig.
The Fürstenhaus in 1872, today diagonally opposite the new building at Grimmaische Strasse 17, a copy of the eastern oriel window of the house that was destroyed in 1943. Long-distance trade with Eastern Europe ran through the Grimma Gate and the Grimmaische Strasse. The fur trade had enormous economic importance for the Leipzig Trade Fair.