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Day 1 - Leipzig
Description: I arrived in Leipzig at about 2:30 in the afternoon local time after an overnight flight from Vermont and a five hour train ride from Frankfurt to Leipzig. I didn't get any sleep on the flight so I was significantly jet-lagged.
After a half hour in the room (Oy, what a fantastic hotel!) to collect myself, I met up with the group in the lobby for a walking tour of Leipzig in the afternoon. I hope you will excuse the aimless composition of the photos and lack of descriptions, as I still wasn't sure how to work the camera worked. I still managed to get a few good pictures.
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The center of Leipzig is a maze of tiny courtyards with the most amazing buildings to be found in the most innocuous nooks and crannies. This is just one of the many amazing facades to be found if one takes the time to look up to the skies.
I'm in a program to reduce my dependance on facades.
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Beautiful street, exposure level set too low. No reason to download until I retouch light levels with photoshop.
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This church is St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Bach final job was Kappelmeister here, where he wrote some of the greatest music of his life. The choir sings cantatas and other Bach works every week.
The black blob in the middle is a famous statue of Bach.
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The Leipzig Rathaus is a grand building but lacks some of the evidence of wanton expenditure of some of the other cities. The focus of the city was trade and there is ample evidence of the importance of trade in all areas of the city.
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Again, the late afternoon shadows obscure the beauty and bustle of downtown Leipzig.
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The small white building at the far end of the square is the Bourse, one of the earliest (fact checkers should know I'm only %20 certain of this particular fact) stack exchanges in the something. The black blob in front that lines up perfectly with the rightmost window is a statue of Goethe, yet another famous resident of Leipzig.
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More facades. At least these are appropriately lighted.
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The church of St. Nicholas (Nikolaikirche), though off the left side of this photo, is represented by the freestanding corinthian column in front of the white building. The column is identical to the columns inside the church (which you can't see) and acted as the starting point for 'peace walks' that happened every day at noontime, and wound round the center of the city on the Ring road. These walks were a quiet protest of the socialist government that grew daily from a few people to over a hundred thousand by the time the government finally fell.
A concrete slab containing the footprints the peace walks and other protests that were instrumental in ending the socialist regime.
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Yet another facade. I can't seem to control these urges.
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One final scenic vista that would have been stunning in morning light. Perhaps next time.
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Copyright ©2001, Robert Rohr.
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