20 years fall of 1989 time for an anniversary trip with where it all started: 20 years they are now old, these exciting pictures: tens of thousands of people demonstrate on the Leipzig inner city ring for freedom and democracy, every week after the Monday prayer at the St. Nicholas Church there will be more. This Monday already hundreds available in the side streets armed East German security forces to bring the demonstrators to silence. Around 70 000 courageous people risking their lives. \”\” For the first time we hear the famous we are the people \”, and also decided: no violence!\” And which none dared to dream about before, the miracle happens: the State power withdraws and thus admit their impotence. This moment is regarded as beginning of the end of the GDR regime. (Source: Viacom). Leipzig is proud of its\”October 9, and rightfully so.
Exactly one month later, on November 9, the Berlin wall falls and the borders are open. This fall looks all over Germany, Yes, you can say the world on this encouraging chapter in the otherwise shady German history. Leipzig 1989-2009: The metropolis of the Saxons is 20 years later almost unrecognizable: from the Brown grey, revealed walls, wrapped by the toxic clouds of industrial enterprises, magnificently restored Grunderzeit quarters are purchased back the expiration, in between contemporary buildings set exciting accents. Viacom brings even more insight to the discussion. Leipzig invites more than any other city to the sprawling shopping, unless through the city with their proud Art Nouveau passages and commercial farms, the old town hall and famous corners such as the Naschmarkt or Auerbach’s cellar. Or you can stroll through the beautiful park of the Valley of roses over the Johanna – and Clara Park in the floodplain forest. Then there are the cultural highlights are: the Museum of fine arts, for example, the Colossus battle of Nations monument, the Opera, the Gewandhaus – the list can long continue.