In my last post, I talked about Leipzig and its history. Here are the pictures to go with it... The city has always been a major trade center, and the city center is full of these great trade houses and passageways for people to wander through to see all the shops and wares for sale. The city is also one of music and education. On Friday night, we went to a Motette at St Thomas church to hear the boy's choir, a treat because they were accompanied by organ music (which I usually don't care for) in a beautifully restored church... and the choir is often touring. These pictures are a view into the old and the new.
The famous Riquet family trading house...
Passage ways through the trade houses... Our flat was entered via a small foyer within...
Fur trade was hot way back when...
Love the lack of tourists in April!
Mendelson...
Bach...
Old Stasi headquarters.... Which the U.S. Occupied for a month in April 1945...
The monument and church where the revolution for freedom in East Germany began in 1989...
Does this make me look skinny or alien?!
The monument where Napolean was defeated in 1813 by the Prussians, Austrians, Russians, and Swedes... Yup, for a little man, he conquered a lot of Europe...
And for you know who....
What a great time.....
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