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13 April: Leipzig-Thekla, Leipzig-Schönau and both HASAG subcamps dissolved. Most prisoners sent on death marches. [58] [60] [56] [59] 18 April: Abtnaundorf massacre. Prisoners of the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp who were ill or unable to march, mostly Poles and Soviets, were massacred by the Gestapo, SS, Volkssturm and German civilians. Some ...
Sweden's defeat by Russia, Saxony, Poland, Denmark–Norway, Hanover, and Prussia in the Great Northern War (1700–21) marked the end of significant Swedish power on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea. In the Prusso–Swedish Treaty of Stockholm (January 1720), Prussia regained Stettin (Szczecin) and other parts of Sweden's holding in ...
Leipzig : Veit Jakob Trescher and Johann Bauer, 1.Decuria 1.1670 - 10.1679; 2.Decuria 1.1682 - 10.1691; 3.Decuria 1.1694 - 10.1706. Continuation: Sacri Romani Imperii Academia Caesareo-Leopoldina Naturae Curiosorum: Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae [Naturae Curiosorum] Natvrae Cvriosorvm ephemerides (1712–1722) 1672–1674 1678–1714 Mercure ...
Leipzig was the German candidate for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was unsuccessful. After ten years of construction, the Leipzig City Tunnel opened on 14 December 2013. [63] Leipzig forms the centrepiece of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland public transit system, which operates in the four German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and ...
In 2024, Leipzig was the only East German city with a UEFA-compatible stadium to be the host city of the UEFA Euro 2024 with four matches. With RB Leipzig, Leipzig has been represented in the Bundesliga since the 2016/17 season and in some years also in the UEFA Champions League [51] and the UEFA Europa League.
Kapellmeister Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640–1700) from the Dresden court had realised that at least at the three Leipzig Trade Fairs, around New Year's Day, Easter and Michaelis in September, there was an audience in Leipzig interested in opera performances and ready to pay for them.
In 1755/56, the Leipzig councillor and council architect Johann Caspar Richter (1708–1770) had a summer palace built in the then village of Gohlis, northwest of Leipzig. The plot of land on which the building was constructed was created by merging two adjacent farms that belonged to Christiana Regina Richter (1724–1780), the owner's wife.
Café Zimmermann, detail of an engraving by Johann George Schreiber [], c. 1720. The Café Zimmermann, or Zimmermannsches Kaffeehaus, was the coffeehouse of Gottfried Zimmermann in Leipzig which formed the backdrop to the first performances of many of Bach's secular cantatas, e.g. the Coffee Cantata (Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht), and instrumental works.