Timeline of Leipzig

Timeline of notable events in the history of Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

The following is a timeline of the history of the German city of Leipzig.

Prior to 18th century

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  • 920 AD - Emperor Henry the Fowler "built a castle here about 920." [1]
  • 1082 - Leipzig sacked by forces of Vratislaus II of Bohemia.[2][3]
  • 1134 - Leipzig "came into the possession of Conrad, Margrave of Meissen".[1]
  • 1165
  • 1170 - Easter and Michaelmas fairs begin (approximate date).[1]
  • 1212 - Thomasschule zu Leipzig and Thomanerchor founded.
  • 1231 - Klosterkirche St. Pauli built.[1]
  • 1409 - University of Leipzig founded.[2][1]
  • 1420 - Fire.[2]
  • 1458 - New year's fair begins.[1]
  • 1479 - Printing press in operation.[4]
  • 1485 - Treaty of Leipzig.[5]
  • 1496 - St. Thomas Church consecrated.[1]
  • 1519 - June: Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt debate John Eck.[2][1]
  • 1530 - Auerbachs Keller built (approximate date).[1]
  • 1539 - "Leipsic formally espoused the Protestant cause."[1]
  • 1542 - Leipzig Botanical Garden first established.[5]
  • 1543 - Leipzig University Library established.[1]
  • 1547
  • 1554 - Moritzbastei constructed.
  • 1556 - Old City Hall built.[2]
  • 1631 - Battle of Breitenfeld (1631).[1]
  • 1642 - Battle of Breitenfeld (1642).
  • 1650 - Einkommende Zeitungen (newspaper) begins publication.[6]
  • 1680 - Plague.[2]
  • 1681 - Weidmannsche Buchhandlung relocates to Leipzig.
  • 1687 - Alte Handelsbörse (trade exchange) was built.
  • 1693 - Opera house opens.[7]
  • 1699 - Population: 15,653.[8]

    • 18th century

    19th century

    Battle of the Nations
    Market Square in the 1890s

    20th century

    Polish armaments seized during the invasion of Poland on display at the 1939 Leipzig Trade Fair
    • 1938 - Expulsion of Polish Jews by Nazi Germany. 1,300 Polish Jews sheltered in the Polish Consulate and saved from deportation.[33]
    • 1939
    • 1941 - German-ordered closure of the American Consulate.[17]
    • 1943
    • 1944
      • Bombing.
      • 11 May: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 250 men, mostly Polish, Russian, Czech and Ukrainian, were held there.[36]
      • 9 June: HASAG Leipzig subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 5,000 women and children, mostly Polish, Soviet, French and Jewish, were held there.[37]
      • 22 August: Leipzig-Schönau subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 500 Jewish women were held there.[38]
      • 15 November: Subcamp of Buchenwald for men established at the HASAG factory. Around 700 men, mostly Jewish, French and Italian, were held there.[39]
      • 24 November: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp dissolved. Prisoners deported to Wansleben am See and Rothenburg.[36]
    Abtnaundorf massacre site a day later, 1945
    Leipzig in 1971

    21st century

    See also

    Other cities in the state of Saxony:

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    This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

    Bibliography

    in English

    • Richard Brookes (1786), "Leipsick", The General Gazetteer (6th ed.), London: J.F.C. Rivington
    • Abraham Rees (1819), "Leipsick", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, hdl:2027/mdp.39015068382327
    • Muirhead, James Fullarton (1882). "Leipsic" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (9th ed.). pp. 429–431.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
    • "Leipzig". Handbook for North Germany. London: J. Murray. 1886. hdl:2027/hvd.hn1imr.
    • George Bradshaw (1898), "Leipsic", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany, London: Adams & Sons
    • "Leipzig". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited; J.B. Lippincott Company. 1901. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7zk5ms79.
    • "Leipzig", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379 + 1873 ed.
    • "Leipzig" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 399–402.
    • Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Leipsic", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.

    in German

    • "Leipzig". Biblioteca geographica: Verzeichniss der seit der Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts bis zu Ende des Jahres 1856 in Deutschland (in German). Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. 1858. (bibliography)
    • F. Th. Richter, ed. (1863). Jahrbüchlein zur Geschichte Leipzigs (in German). Verlag Julius Klinkhardt. (includes city timeline)
    • "Leipzig". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896. hdl:2027/njp.32101064064551.
    • P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Leipzig". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
    • "Stadtgebiet und Witterung", Statistisches Jahrbuch 2015 (in German), Stadt Leipzig, Chronologie der Eingemeindungen
    • "Bevölkerungsbestand", Statistisches Jahrbuch 2015 (in German), Stadt Leipzig, Amtliche Bevölkerung, Fläche und Bevölkerungsdichte seit 1699
    • Wolfgang Adam; Siegrid Westphal, eds. (2012). "Leipzig". Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit: Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 1253–1298. ISBN 978-3-11-029555-9.

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