Lindenau: Vom Dorf zur Stadtteil

At a glance

Leipzig
Guided Visits, Public guided…

Learn about the late emergence of the Lindenauer Market from one of the village ponds, where the people of Leipzig amused themselves around 1900, and why the sky is so blue here. Founded on the edge of the fertile Elster-Luppe floodplain, the village of Lindenau was established. From the medieval village with its Romanesque church and water castle through the population boom of the Gründerzeit to its role as a replacement center for post-war Leipzig. Many traces of this development can still be found and shape the character of this district today. Learn about the late emergence of the Lindenauer Market from one of the village ponds, where the people of Leipzig amused themselves around 1900, and why the sky is so blue here.