Romanushaus and Fregehaus, Katharinenstraße (city center near tourist information). Baroque architecture. �
Rundling (Nibelungensiedlung), Siegfriedplatz, Siegfriedstraße (Tram 16 to Lößnig or tram 11 to Raschwitzer Straße or local train to Leipzig-Connewitz). Apartment houses in concentric circles, built in the late 1920s/early 1930s. Streets named after characters from he Song of the Nibelungs. �
Stalin era architecture, Roßplatz (Tram to Augustusplatz or Roßplatz). Curved to follow the street, huge like a castle -- Leipzig's most prominent relict of the Stalin era sits at the Ring next to the Gewandhaus. �
Waldstraßenviertel, Northwest of the city center (Tram 3, 4, 7, 8, 15 to Waldplatz. Follow Waldstraße and walk into sidestreets at your discretion.), . Europe's largest uninterrupted Gründerzeit district. �
Plagwitz. An industrial district whose time of glory has passed. Many of its factories died a slow death during the GDR years, which suddenly became visible with the re-unification of Germany. Today it is a mixture of old industrial buildings, some in ruins and others repurposed; fallow land; and new developments. Walk around Karl-Heine-Straße between Felsenkeller and the railway station Bahnhof Plagwitz, Weißenfelon ser Straße and Gießerstraße to get a feeling for the place, or walk the path alongside the Karl-Heine-Kanal. May appear a bit spooky at night. �
Meyersche Häuser, several locations: Herrmann-Meyer-Straße in Kleinzschocher; between Erich-Köhn-Straße and Demmeringstraße in Lindenau; Hofer Straße in Reudnitz; between Bernburger Straße and Theresienstraße, Hamburger Straße and Schönfelder Straße in Eutritzsch, . Herrmann Julius Meyer, owner of a publishing company, initiated in the late 19th century several development projects to provide adequate but cheap housing to factory workers and their families. �
Early highrise buildings, Augustusplatz. You can see two early highrise buildings (by the standards of their time) around Augustusplatz. One is the Krochhochaus on the western side of the square, which you can see in the background of the fountain photo above. The other is the Europahaus in the southeastern corner of the square, across the street from the Gewandhaus. �
Modern highrise buildings, Augustusplatz, Wintergartenstraße and Nordstraße. Besides the tower of the new townhall and the Völkerschlachtenkmal, three highrise buildings shape the skyline of Leipzig. The City-Hochhaus (Augustusplatz) was originally built as part of the university campus but sold to private investors in the 1990s. The Wintergartenhochhaus next to the Hauptbahnhof (Wintergartenstraße) is an apartment building. The Westin hotel was erected in the late 1970s and opened in 1981 as Hotel Merkur. �
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