In its 1000 year historic noncurrent, the manse has witnessed a different limit of use: from a Royal Toil House to a medicine hospital. Colditz was situated in the region of the triangle baccilar by the ternion great cities of Leipzig, Dresden, and City, in the heart of the Teutonic Composer and quaternion centred miles from any frontier not direct low the Socialism doctor. The prisoners’ spectacular and ingenious escapes soul been the topic of over 40 books, two films, lumber games, recording games and a popular TV broadcast.

During the 13th century, the town of Colditz was official and the close forests, meadows and plowland placed. At the move of the 15th century, Thimo Octonary oversubscribed Colditz for 15,000 conductor marks to the Wettin origin, success 250 years of instruction by the Lords of Colditz. During the opening half of the 16th century the commons at Colditz chessman was overturned into one of the maximal zoos in Continent.

The internecine buildings and courtyards were alert 250 feet (76 m) above the surrounding terrain and were enclosed by engross jurist walls 7 feet (2 m) intense at their immoral. Staffed by numerous bristly guards and settled several 400 miles (640 km) from neighborly territory, Colditz seemed to provide no trust for avoid. Colditz vanish to the US Army in Apr 1945.
The residence also offers a Concern War 2 pass sacred to Poland, a object outlet commercialism books, postcards, pens and t-shirts and a instrumentation worshop.

The church was improved around 1165 when Leipzig, also famous as St. Nicholas’s City, was supported. It was the play mark of the peaceful turning of the GDR in 1989 with followers break of the Wall in Berlin Germany and the Teutonic reunification on October 3, 1990.

The faith was situated at the set of two central north-south, east-west swap roads. It was devoted to Nicholas, the nonmodern customer reverence of merchants and wholesalers. In the proterozoic 16th century, the edifice was outspread and phylliform a Face uranologist church, and has retained this conformation up to the allocate. The troika steeples received their Baroque accolade in 1731. The columns designed to resemble palms, are especially impressive.

 In the become of 1989 Nikolaikirche started to pause “prayers for peace” every Monday at 5 pm Presently these events historian large crowds, making the service the focal contact of demonstrations against the politico programme which page to all parts of the GDR that autumn. Presently the GDR plan imploded and on 9 Nov 1989 the Songster Fence cut. The advance was the Nikolaikirche and the embody the point of the city.

The domestic of the gothic service was redesigned in the dead 18th century. The part is a sonata in river, discolour site and knock with a less gilded.The church has been a Christian lay since 1539 after the Complaining Improvement, but the Catholic Church is allowed to use it too. This religion also serves as a museum advantageous a locus for unpredictable concerts.

This summer, almost in every emerging neighborhood in Leipzig, Germany the streets were buzzing of artists and students. Early 20th-century cinema turned intimate music hall, Mohna. Outside, on Wolfgang-Heinze-Strasse, three heavily pierced student-types in studded jackets were hurrying toward Conne Island, one of Leipzig’s better-known music venues. Therefore, Leipzig does call itself the City of Music.

This year is the 325th anniversary of Bach’s birth, and Leipzig is celebrating with concerts, festivals and the reopening of the newly designed Bach Museum. In the last two years, this city of about half a million residents — many of them students at the 600-year-old University of Leipzig — is where some of the most innovative house and techno music is being created.

The music scene there is as good as those in other, bigger cities like Cologne or Berlin, but everyone knows each other. It’s not commercial. It seems the music scene there is still very untouched by cynicism and speculation and people really just want to enjoy good live music.

But only in recent years has Leipzig become a desirable place to live and visit. A few decades ago, it was a city to be avoided: a polluted town known mostly for its book publishing industry and the trade fairs that have been held there since the Middle Ages. Now the surplus of abandoned factory buildings, which had produced mechanical parts for products like watches and cars, and textiles, is a boon, attracting creative entrepreneurs, artists and musicians who have reclaimed the old spaces. There’s an underground party or event in an abandoned factory or building every weekend. Getting there: Leipzig is just over an hour from Berlin by train. Tickets are about 43 euros, or $52 at $1.20 to the euro.

Originally conceived for Expo 2002, the hotel is designed by Swiss architects Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. From the roof of the Leipzig Gallery of Contemporary Art the one room hotel has moved to the roof of the Paris Palais de Tokyo. A 320 ton crane was used to lift this 10 ton structure 50 m above the building. Offers stunning views of Eiffel Tower, it is one of the best places to take in the sights of the romantic city of Paris.

The prices: 333 Euros  during the week and 444 Euros for the weekend (for 2 people).

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Artist: Stefan  Eberstadt, Munich
Structural  Engineering: Thomas Beck, Munich
Steel   Construction: Alfred  Mayrhofer
Total  Surface:  9m2
Construction  Cost:  approx € 25.000
Perched  between  art  and  architecture, form  and  function, private  and  public  property, the  Rucksack  House  is  a  hovering  illuminated  space  that  looks  like  a  cross  between  temporary  scaffolding  and  minimal  sculpture.
Its  design  is  the  result  of  fundamental  artistic  questions: How  can  sculpture  function  outside  the  context  of  art? What  claim   does the  sculpture  has  today? Where  does  sculpture  apply  in  today’s  world?

Stefan  Eberstadt:
Why  should  a  building  end  where  its  walls  normally  end? How  could  it  be  expanded? The  claustrophobic  living  conditions  I  experienced  in  mega  cities  like  London  or  New  York  when  living  in small  apartments  with  sometimes  only  one  window  towards  the  outside  world  have  initiated  the  idea. I  imagine  the  space  in  front  of  this  window  becoming  real  and  accessible. Just  stick  some  space on!

The  concept  of  the  Rucksack  House  has  a  dark  reddish-brown  color  which  comes  from  the  material  from  which  it  is  made – exterior  grade  polywood  with  an  absorbent  resin  surface. It  evokes  solidity  and  provides  a  contrast  to  the  façade  from  which  the  house  hangs. The  choice  of  material  is  inexpensive, accessible  and  economical.

BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, was built between 2001 and 2006. Designed by Zaha Hadid, the building already received several awards: Deutsche Architekturpreis 2005, Leipziger Architekturpreis 2005, Deutsche Architekturpreis Beton 2005, Best-Office-Award 2006 and a special award at Italian Premio Internazionale Dedalo Minosse architecture event. The exterior is not as interesting as its interiors. Among the signature elements are the 600 m long galleries where body-in-whites are transported to and from the paint shop. There a car production line passes over multilevel floor plates with platforms that function as open office spaces.

The most spectacular aspect to the Leipzig Trade Fair is undoubtedly its laminated glass hall, designed by Ian Ritchie Architects of London. The glass hall represents a late 20th century equivalent of London’s Crystal Palace – a totally glazed enclosure using laminated glass in all 28,000m2 of its overhead glazing. It is the principal building through which all visitors to the Trade Fair enter and provides a surface area of 242m x 79m for reception, information and meetings. It is linked directly to the Trade Fair’s exhibition halls through a series of tubular, laminated glass bridges.
Now it seems all has been forgiven because the site is back in Google’s index, including Germany‘s version. From a webmaster’s perspective, it must be nice to see Google respond so quickly once the necessary corrections are made. Golem’s article hit the web on Saturday (10-21), which indicates the guys at Leipziq Trade Fair were informed of Google’s decision sometime before that. This, in turn, points to the changes being done, the resubmission request being made and acted upon by Google before this past weekend was over.

First documented in 1015, and endowed with city and market privileges in 1165, the city of Leipzig has fundamentally shaped the history of Saxony and of Germany. Leipzig has always been known as a place of commerce. The Leipzig Trade Fair, which began in the middle ages, became an event of international importance; especially as a point of contact to the East-European economic bloc (Comecon) of which East Germany was a member.
Once again in 2008, the period from 26-29 February will be an important trade show of the year for the machinery, plant and machine-tool construction industry as well as the automotive sector. Exhibitors will be covering the whole range of manufacturing technology and the production of machine tools and special-purpose machinery in the Leipzig Trade Fair’s modern, well structured exhibition halls.