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Johannapark
The Johannapark is an 11 hectares (27.2 acres) park near the city center in Leipzig. In the southwest it merges seamlessly into the Clara Zetkin Park and together with it and the Palmengarten forms a large park landscape that continues in the north and south in the ''Leipzig Auenwald''. Location The park is located in the Westvorstadt area of Leipzig, in the borough of Leipzig-Mitte. It is framed to the north-west by ''Ferdinand-Lassalle-Strasse'', to the north-east by ''Paul-Gerhardt-Weg'' and ''Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse'', to the south by ''Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse'' and to the south-west by ''Edvard-Grieg-Allee''. Adjacent residential areas are the Bachviertel, the inner Westvorstadt and the Musikviertel. History The Johannapark was created between 1858 and 1863 by the Leipzig entrepreneur and banker ''Wilhelm Theodor Seyfferth'' (1807-1881) at his own expense and later donated to the city. He wanted to commemorate his daughter ''Johanna Natalie Schulz'', who died at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannapark Leipzig
The Johannapark is an 11 hectares (27.2 acres) park near the city center in Leipzig. In the southwest it merges seamlessly into the Clara Zetkin Park and together with it and the Palmengarten forms a large park landscape that continues in the north and south in the ''Leipzig Auenwald''. Location The park is located in the Westvorstadt area of Leipzig, in the borough of Leipzig-Mitte. It is framed to the north-west by ''Ferdinand-Lassalle-Strasse'', to the north-east by ''Paul-Gerhardt-Weg'' and ''Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse'', to the south by ''Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse'' and to the south-west by ''Edvard-Grieg-Allee''. Adjacent residential areas are the Bachviertel, the inner Westvorstadt and the Musikviertel. History The Johannapark was created between 1858 and 1863 by the Leipzig entrepreneur and banker ''Wilhelm Theodor Seyfferth'' (1807-1881) at his own expense and later donated to the city. He wanted to commemorate his daughter ''Johanna Natalie Schulz'', who died at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara-Zetkin-Park (Leipzig)
The Clara-Zetkin-Park (colloquially ''Clara-Park'') is a park in Leipzig. From 1955 until 2011 it was Leipzig's largest park with an area of 125 hectares (309 acres) and was called ''Zentraler Kulturpark Clara Zetkin'' (Clara Zetkin Central Culture Park). The name was changed in 2011 and since then the ''Johannapark'' and the Palmengarten have officially been considered independent parks (previously they belonged to the Clara Zetkin Central Culture Park). Since 2011, only the previous ''Scheibenholzpark'' and ''König-Albert-Park'' (named after Albert of Saxony) are called ''Clara-Zetkin-Park''. The park, named after the politician and women's rights activist Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), is located on the southwestern edge of the Stadtbezirk Mitte - about two kilometers (1.2 mi.) southwest of the city center on the edge of the ''Musikviertel''. The park represents the connection between the northern and southern parts of the Leipzig Riverside Forest. History and Names In 1955, base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League. This later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933. Biography Background and education Clara Josephine Eißner (Eissner) was born the eldest of three children in , a peasant village in Saxony, now part of the municipality Königshain-Wiederau. Her father, Gottfried Eissner, was a schoolmaster, church organist and a devout Protestant, while her mother, Josephine Vitale, had French roots, came from a middle-class family from Leipzig and was highly educated. In 1872, her family moved to Leipzig, where she was educated at the Leipzig Teachers’ Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Lehnert
Adolf Lehnert (20 July 1862 – 6 January 1948) was a Leipzig sculptor and medal designer. Life Family Franz Robert Adolf Lehnert was born in Leipzig, the second of his parents' twelve recorded children. His father, also called Adolf Lehnert, was an engine driver. His mother, born Lina Werner, was originally from Borna (to the southeast of the city). In 1889 Lehnert married Else Riedel, daughter of the composer-musical director Carl Riedel. This connected him to one of Leipzig's leading artistic families. Sadly, however, the marriage was childless and Else died in 1907. Lehnert's second marriage was to Johanna Wildenhayn (1875–1957). This marriage resulted in two recorded children: Siegfried (1910–1941) and Waltraut (1916–2007). Education After leaving school Adolf Lehnert studied at the Leipzig Arts Academy (''"Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig"'') between 1880 and 1888. His principal teacher was Melchior zur Straßen. At the academy's a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Joseph Lenné
Peter Joseph Lenné (the Younger) (29 September 1789 – 23 January 1866) was a Prussian gardener and landscape architect. As director general of the Royal Prussian palaces and parks in Potsdam and Berlin, his work shaped the development of 19th-century German garden design in the Neoclassical style. Laid out according to the principles of the English landscape garden, his parks are now World Heritage Sites. Life and works Lenné was born in Bonn, then part of the Electorate of Cologne, the son of the court and university gardener Peter Joseph Lenné the Elder (1756–1821), and his wife, Anna Catharina Potgieter (also Potgeter), daughter of the mayor of Rheinberg. The Lenné family descended from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. Circa 1665, Peter Joseph's ancestor Augustin Le Neu had settled in Poppelsdorf near Bonn as court gardener of Archbishop-Elector Maximilian Henry of Bavaria. Childhood and development Having obtained his ''Abitur'' degree, Peter Joseph Lenné decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Cramer
Wilhelm Bernardo Walter Cramer (1 May 1886, Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony – 14 November 1944, Berlin) was a German businessman from Leipzig and a member of the failed 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia. Life In 1919, Cramer became managing director of the ''Kammgarnspinnerei Gautzsch AG'', a worsted yarn spinning mill. From 1923, he was on the board of directors of the ''Leipziger Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr & Co. AG'', another corporation in the same industry. In the first half of the 1940s, Cramer took part in civilian resistance against the Nazi régime with Leipzig's former mayor Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884-1945). After the attempt on the Führer's life failed on 20 July 1944, Cramer was seized on 22 July, and later found guilty at the '' Volksgerichtshof'' of treason and high treason, for which he was sentenced to death. He was hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on 14 November 1944. Honours In 1945, a street in the Gohlis ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmengarten (Leipzig)
The Palmengarten is a park in Leipzig-Lindenau. It covers a surface of 22.5 hectares (55.6 acres). Location The ''Palmengarten'' is situated two kilometres west of downtown Leipzig. It is bordered by Jahnallee to the north, Richard Wagner Hain to the east, Karl Heine street to the south, and Kleine Luppe as well as Lützner street to the west. The Kuhburger river formed the western border of the Palmengarten before its backfilling in 1920. History The park grounds on the western bank of Elster Pleißen Aue were originally part of the Leipzig Riverside Forest. Later, in 1893, during the 50th anniversary of Leipzig Gardeners Association's (''Leipziger Gärtner-Verein'') horticultural exhibition, a competition for the design of a Palmengarten inspired by the Frankfurt Palmengarten was announced. The winner of the competition was Eduard May, a garden engineer from Frankfurt. Otto Moßdort, a gardener from Lindenau who had already designed the grounds for the horticultural e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20 July Plot
On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland. The name "Operation Valkyrie"—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event. The apparent aim of the assassination attempt was to wrest political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi Party (including the SS) and to make peace with the Western Allies of World War II, Allies as soon as possible. The details of the conspirators' peace initiatives remain unknown, but they would have included unrealistic demands for the confirmation of Germany's extensive annexations of European territory. The plot was the culmination of efforts by several groups in the German resistance to Nazism, German resistance to overthrow the Nazi German government. The failure of the assassination attempt an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Licht
Hugo Georg Licht (21 February 1841 in Nieder-Zedlitz (today Siedlnica, Poland) – 28 February 1923 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German architect. Life Licht was the son of the landholder Georg Hugo Licht. In the years 1862 and 1863 he was mason trainee at the renowned Berlin architects Wilhelm Böckmann and Hermann Ende. At this time, they embossed at that time the late Neoclassical architecture in Berlin – especially with private villas and other magnificent buildings. In 1864, he enrolled at the Berlin Royal Prussian Academy of Architecture and was a pupil of Friedrich Adler. Later and with his recommendation Licht could change in the studio of the architect Richard Lucae in Berlin. In contrast to the orientation of Adler at the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Lucae favored the formal language of the Italian Renaissance. Later he moved to Vienna and worked with the architect Heinrich von Ferstel. From 1869 until the end of 1870 Licht traveled through Italy. This study t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Arnold (German Sculptor)
Walter Arnold (27 August 1909 – 11 July 1979) was a German stonemason and sculptor. Between 1957 and 1964 he was the president of the Association of Visual Artists (DDRA / ''Verband Bildender Künstler'') in East Germany. Life Early years Walter Arnold was the son of a Leipzig Stonemason. Peter H. Feist: ''Anmut und Appell''; Beitrag zum 100. Geburtstag von Walter Arnold in der Tageszeitung ''Neues Deutschland'' vom 27. August 2009 He trained between 1924 and 1928 in wood carving and stone sculpture. Between 1928 and 1932 he studied the shapes of sculptures and ceramics under Alfred Thiele at the School of Craftsmanship at Leipzig. After finishing his studies he worked as an assistant to Thiele until 1933, after which he worked as a freelance artist, supporting himself with contract work, including grave stone business and stonework renovation jobs. He was a soldier during the war, ending up in a prison camp just outside Bad Kreuznach. Returning home to Leipzig, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stele
A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both. These may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted. Stelae were created for many reasons. Grave stelae were used for funerary or commemorative purposes. Stelae as slabs of stone would also be used as ancient Greek and Roman government notices or as boundary markers to mark borders or property lines. Stelae were occasionally erected as memorials to battles. For example, along with other memorials, there are more than half-a-dozen steles erected on the battlefield of Waterloo at the locations of notable actions by participants in battle. A traditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
