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General German Workers' Association founded in Leipzig. 1864 25 June: First section of the Karl Heine Canal inaugurated. [33] Schrebergärten (community garden) association formed. [34] 1866 - Austro-Prussian War leads to Prussian occupation in 1866–67. [1] 1868 - Opera house built. 1869 Leipzig Museum of Ethnography founded. [1] Leipzig ...
The first German labor party, the General German Workers' Association (Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded in Leipzig on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle; about 600 workers from across Germany travelled to the foundation on the new railway. Leipzig expanded rapidly to more than 700,000 inhabitants.
In 1900 the German Football Association was founded in Leipzig. [34] VfB Leipzig became German football champion in 1903. As a result of industrialisation , but also of numerous incorporations of suburban municipalities, the number of inhabitants increased very rapidly at the end of the 19th century, [ 35 ] making Leipzig before the Second ...
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The first section of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway, from Leipzig to Althen, was opened on 24 April 1837, becoming the third German railway to be built. The line was completed through to Dresden on 7 April 1839. With a total route length of 120 km (75 mi), this was also the first German trunk or long-distance railway and the first exclusively ...
A ground-breaking ceremony was held prior to the start of construction on 18 October 1898, the 85th anniversary of the battle. A total of 82,000 cubic metres (107,000 cu yd) of earth were moved in the following two years until suitable subsoil for the foundation was found.
[4]: 454 Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, who ruled Leipzig, had become King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony. He was also given the Duchy of Warsaw. [5] His kingdom became part of the Confederation of the Rhine, subordinate to France. At Leipzig, 127,000 Russian troops fought alongside 89,000 Austrians, 72,000 Prussians, and 18,000 Swedes.
Founded on 6 March 1893 in the Keglerheim (Nordstraße) as a football and cricket club at the instigation of a group of three Englishmen, it is notable as a founding member of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1900 where it was represented by Oskar Büttner.