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Völkerschlachtdenkmal

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    May 4, 2020

    Impressive memorial to commemorate the Battle of the Nations in 1813 - Information about the memorial can be found at

    leipzig.de/freizeit-kultur-und-tourismus/tourismus/sehenswuerdigkeits/voelkerschlachtdenkmal

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      October 7, 2023

      From October 16th to 19th, 1813, Leipzig was the scene of the Battle of the Nations. The allied armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden achieved a decisive victory over Napoleon and his allies on German soil. The result: 600,000 soldiers from over twenty nations involved, 100,000 dead or wounded and a typhus epidemic in Leipzig that claimed the lives of ten percent of the residents.

      Just one year after the devastating battle, the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt had the idea for a monument that would honor the fallen. In 1894, the Leipzig architect Clemens Thieme founded the German Patriotic Association with the aim of collecting donations for the construction of the monument. In 1898 the sum was sufficient and the foundation stone could be laid.

      In 1913 the Battle of the Nations Monument was inaugurated as a national monument.

      Source: leipzig.de/freizeit-kultur-und-tourismus/tourismus/gehenswuerdigkeiten/voelkerschlachtdenkmal

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        November 9, 2024

        Very worth seeing, you have to see it

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