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Waldstraßenviertel
Waldstraßenviertel (English: Forest Street Quarter/Neighbourhood), is a neighbourhood in the north west of Leipzig, Leipzig's borough Leipzig-Mitte, Mitte in Saxony, Germany. It is considered one of the largest complete areas of Gründerzeit buildings in Europe and is therefore considered of important cultural and heritage status. Many of its buildings are therefore protected or listed. Statistics On 30 June 2023, the neighbourhood Waldstrassenviertel which correlates with the subdivision of ''Zentrum-Nordwest'' counts 10,878 inhabitants. It covers an area of . History Originally this area was forest and grassland. Slavs, Slavic settlements probably arose very early in the White Elster, Elster and Pleiße, Pleisse areas. The Via Regia, along today's Ranstädter Steinweg and Jahnallee, was an old trade route that was protected by royal privileges. Hiberno-Scottish mission, Hiberno-Scottish missionaries used the Via Regia as early as the 7th century and founded the St. Jacob' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elstermühlgraben
The Elstermühlgraben (litt.: ''Elster mill race'' or ''Elster mill ditch'') is an approximately long, now partially underground mill race, mill canal in the city of Leipzig, Germany, which has existed as an artificial tributary of the White Elster for more than 800 years. Course In its current, repeatedly corrected course, the Elstermühlgraben originates as a right-hand branch of the Elster flood channel, shortly before it receives the White Elster coming from the left and flows into the Elster basin at the Palmengarten weir. It initially flows in a northeasterly direction towards the Leipzig-Mitte, city center, then forms a knee at the level of the street called Ranstädter Steinweg (which it passes under) and continues to flow in a northwesterly direction between Waldstraßenviertel and Rosental back to the White Elster, before finally flowing back into it. The northern part of the Mühlgraben follows the bed of the old Elster. Bridges The Peterssteg at the beginning of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig-Mitte
Leipzig-Mitte is one of ten boroughs (''Stadtbezirke'') of Leipzig, located in the center of the city. It includes numerous architectural monuments. Most of them are located in the subdivision "Zentrum", which is sited inside the Inner City Ring Road (Leipzig), Inner City Ring Road and the Promenadenring (Leipzig), Promenadenring: * the Leipzig Opera, Opera, * the Europahaus (Leipzig), Europahaus, * the Gewandhaus, * the City-Hochhaus Leipzig, City-Hochhaus at the Augustusplatz, * the Wintergartenhochhaus, * the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, St. Thomas Church, * the St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig, St. Nicholas Church, * the New Town Hall (Leipzig), New Town Hall, * the Old Town Hall (Leipzig), Old Town Hall at the Markt (Leipzig), Markt square, * the Leipzig University. In the southwest of the borough, there is located a part of the Clara-Zetkin-Park (Leipzig), Clara-Zetkin-Park and the Federal Administrative Court (Germany), Federal Administrative Court. In the northern part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nursing Home
A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and whether they provide mostly assisted living, or nursing care and emergency medical care. Nursing homes are used by people who do not need to be in a hospital, but require care that is hard to provide in a home setting. The nursing home staff attends to the patients' medical and other needs. Most nursing homes have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day. In the United States, while nearly 1 in 10 residents aged 75 to 84 stays in a nursing home for five or more years, nearly 3 in 10 residents in that age group stay less than 100 days, the maximum duration covered by Medicare, according to the American Association for Long-Term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies of World War II, Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, End of World War II in Europe, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brühl (Leipzig)
The Brühl () is a street in the centre of Leipzig, Germany, just within the former city wall. Until the 1930s, it was the international centre of fur trade. History The term ''Brühl'' first appears in Leipzig sources in 1420 and initially referred to marshy land (Bruel = marsh). Due to the Parthe floods , the area north of today's Brühl was frequently flooded. The area was only drained in the 13th and 14th centuries. Since the Middle Ages, the Brühl was part of the Via Regia coming from Merseburg and leading further to Meissen. On the corner of the Brühl and Katharinenstrasse stands the Romanus house, built for the mayor of Leipzig between 1701 and 1704, and one of the finest baroque buildings remaining in the town. In the late 18th century and early 19th century, the Brühl was part of the Jewish quarter of the city. A synagogue was established in 1763, and Jews visiting the annual Leipzig Fair would lodge in the Brühl and the surrounding streets. The Brühl reta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retirement Home
A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home, old folks' home, or old age home, although ''old people's home'' can also refer to a nursing home – or rest home, is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly. Typically, each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms with an en-suite bathroom. Additional facilities are provided within the building. This can include facilities for meals, gatherings, recreation activities, and some form of health or hospital care. A place in a retirement home can be paid for on a rental basis, like an apartment, or can be bought in perpetuity on the same basis as a condominium. A retirement home differs from a nursing home primarily in the level of medical care given. Retirement communities, unlike retirement homes, offer separate and autonomous homes for residents. Retirement homes offer meal-making and some personal care services. Assisted living facilities, memory care facili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edition Leipzig
Edition Leipzig was a publisher in the German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR), which, for the most part, placed books on Western markets as an export publisher. This was intended to serve representative purposes as well as to procure foreign currency. Today, the publishing house is part of the Seemann Henschel publishing group, which was taken over by in October 2017 with a program on regional and cultural history. From 1960 to 1984 more than book titles were published, of which more than 500 were published in foreign languages and about 60 even in multilingual versions. In the first phase, which lasted up to 1965, the publication of scientific and technical books predominated. Later, cultural and art historical as well as popular scientific works were added to a greater extent. The Edition Leipzig became known for high-quality facsimiles and historical reprints. Fictional titles were rare, and marketing for this genre was discontinued as it was seen as not being profitable en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Emancipation
Jewish emancipation was the process in various nations in Europe of eliminating Jewish disabilities, to which European Jews were then subject, and the recognition of Jews as entitled to equality and citizenship rights. It included efforts within the community to integrate into their societies as citizens. It occurred gradually between the late 18th century and the early 20th century. Jewish emancipation followed after the Age of Enlightenment and the concurrent Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Various nations repealed or superseded previous discriminatory laws applied specifically against Jews where they resided. Before the emancipation, most Jews were isolated in residential areas from the rest of the society; emancipation was a major goal of European Jews of that time, who worked within their communities to achieve integration in the majority societies and broader education. Many became active politically and culturally within wider European civil society as Jews gained f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolpersteine Familie Nemann
A (; plural ) is a concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literal translation, Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'. The project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study (with exceptions possible on a case-by-case basis) before they fell victim to Nazi terror, Aktion T4, forced euthanasia, Nazi eugenics, eugenics, deportation to a Nazi concentration camp, concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. , 100,000 have been laid, making the project the world's largest decentralized memorial. The majority of commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Others have been placed for Sinti#The Holocaust, Sinti and Porajmos, Romani people (then also called "gypsies"), The Holocaust in Poland, Poles, Persecution o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
