New Architectural Guide Leads Leipzig Citizens and Tourists to the Show-Pieces of History and Art Nouveau. Leipzig has today a collection of adjacent building from the years 1871 and 1918 as seen in no other town in Germany. This is reason enough for the Culture Foundation Leipzig as well as the Passage Publishing House and Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH, to publish the Architectural Guide „Historismus und Jugendstil – Leipziger Architektur 1871–1918“ (History and Art Nouveau - Leipzig Architecture 1871-1918). 

For the first time ever a town guide presents the most beautiful buildings and memorials of the era coherently. A total of 82 houses and building complexes have been included. This is, however, only a small part of the existing Leipzig period houses: Of the 15,000 cultural monuments in Leipzig, 10,000 are from the so-called Wilhelminian period alone. Particularly impressive are the passages and exhibition palaces in the city centre such as Specks Hof, the Municipal Department Store or the oldest intact passageway in Germany, the Mädlerpassage. At least equally worth seeing are the dwellings in the historism style which shape large urban tracts, the industrial buildings in Plagwitz and die Publishing House to the east of the city centre.

The architectural town guide can be bought in various bookshops in Leipzig, for example at the Leipzig Information Office (Katharinenstraße 8). Otherwise you can order it quoting the ISBN: 978-3-938543-79-5.