After several years of intensive preparation, planning and construction, the moment finally arrived on Friday 2 October: the Sellerhäuser Viaduct, between the Liselotte-Herrmann-Straße bridge and the Theodor-Neubauer-Straße bridge, was opened as the first section of the Sellerhäuser Bogen. Where trains once ran, people will now be able to walk, linger and experience the east of […]
Is the glass half full or half empty? It always depends on your perspective. Take, for example, the ban on the conversion of residential property in Leipzig, from which the Left Party group on the Leipzig City Council had expected far more. Such a ban has been in force in Leipzig since 1 September 2024. […]
Give them a name: that was, in fact, the aim of the initiative that fought for years to ensure that the Old Town Hall would commemorate the witch burnings in some way. Since 2021, there has indeed been a plaque there that highlights this dark chapter in Leipzig’s municipal and legal history. But what is […]
There is a world beyond our own. It is quieter, more melancholic, more contemplative. There, the music of Robert Schumann, Johannes Weyrauch and Alexander Zemlinsky resounds. It is the world of Romantic music, which did not end with the Romantic era, but continued to inspire composers such as Weyrauch and Zemlinsky well into the 20th […]
If you want to plan development in a city like Leipzig, you need reasonably reliable figures on population trends. Every three years, therefore, Leipzig’s Office for Statistics and Elections publishes an updated population forecast. And not just as a figure, but as a concise, 70-page analysis. On Friday, 25 September, Mayor Ulrich Hörning presented the […]
Here we go. At the last council meeting, Torsten Bonew, the councillor responsible for finance, presented the draft for the 2027/2028 biennial budget. The City Council intends to approve it in December so that the budget debate does not fall in the middle of the 2027 mayoral election campaign. That is why this week also […]
It was inevitable: the funding available from Dresden for school building projects has continued to dwindle in recent years. More and more of the City of Leipzig’s new-build projects have come under fire. The city must tighten its belt, particularly against the backdrop of a budget that has spiralled completely out of control. And that […]
Take a deep breath, catch your breath, check your pulse. On Wednesday, 23 September, news began to filter through that Berlin would be withdrawing its bid to host the 2036, 2040 or 2044 Olympic Games. The Senate’s press conference on the matter wasn’t until Thursday. And the actual intra-German Olympic selection process isn’t until Saturday. […]
For years, the Czech Republic has been planning a further barrage on the Elbe near Děčín. This plan repeatedly provokes a strong reaction from conservative ministers in Dresden, as they genuinely believe it could somehow restore the navigability of the Elbe on the Saxon side. Ministers such as Saxony’s Environment Minister, Georg-Ludwig von Breitenbuch, were […]
At the July meeting of the City Council, the proposal regarding the possible sale of the small wood on Capastraße had to be postponed. The protest was too vocal. And many councillors in the city council also frowned upon the proposal, as this project, put forward by the Property Office, would see Leipzig undermine several […]
The scorching summer of 2026 showed everyone in Leipzig where global warming is heading. And just how ill-prepared the city of Leipzig actually is for such high temperatures of around 40 degrees. Naturally, the Left Party group on Leipzig City Council wanted to know what the city was now investing in to protect against the […]
In June, the joint sealant melted along 36 kilometres of the Leipzig Public Transport Authority (LVB) track network. Tram services came to a complete standstill for days, and 2,000 Leipzig residents rushed to help when the LVB sought volunteers to scrape away the overflowing joint sealant. In some cases, they did so even when temperatures […]
Leipzig is growing. Even now, at a time when the Free State of Saxony is once again forecasting a decline in population figures. There are many reasons for this. Young people, in particular, are moving into the city. But this has consequences for the housing market – an issue that has now also caught the […]
It was to be expected that this would cause trouble once again. It’s only to be expected when a city, under massive pressure from a budget that has spiralled out of control, is forced to cut 500 jobs. And to do so within a very, very short timeframe, in order to have any impact at […]
Thousands of households in Leipzig are looking for an affordable flat and are simply unable to find one at present. One way of alleviating the housing shortage to some extent would, of course, be to put the residential buildings in Leipzig – of which there are by no means a few – that have stood […]
From Saturday 12 September, Galerie Schwind in Leipzig will be hosting the first exhibition of paintings and drawings by Günter Thiele following his death in January this year. On display will be, amongst other things, around 30 paintings from the years 1952 to 2025, as Thiele continued to work in his studio in Eutritzsch right […]
At this final presentation on 2 September, Mayor Burkhard Jung, who was chairing the meeting, was clearly running out of steam too. This proposal concerned Development Plan No. 451.1 ‘Semmelweisstraße/An den Tierkliniken, Northern Section’, i.e. the entire area around Semmelweisstraße and the Kohlrabizirkus. It is, in fact, an area lacking in liveability, which has been […]
On 2 September, late in the evening, the City Council also voted on a proposal in which the Social Affairs Department reported unplanned additional expenditure of around 50 million euros, which the city can now only finance through new cash advances – in other words, debt. And the debate on the matter took a bizarre […]
Anyone with a family history like that of the philosopher Jason Stanley simply cannot turn a blind eye when their country is heading down a fascist path. Stanley now teaches at the University of Toronto in Canada. In 2025, he left the US, where he had been teaching at the highly regarded Yale University. One […]
It has actually been closed since 26 March. However, the Leipzig Environmental Library is now reopening for a further three months before closing its doors for good at the end of the year. Residents of Leipzig can make use of this free service until the end of the year, Tuesdays to Thursdays from 12:00 to […]
There’s really no point in arguing about it now: once a construction project like the massive Georg-Schwarz bridges between Leutzsch and Böhlitz-Ehrenberg has got underway, you can’t simply stop it if costs rise along the way. Not everything can be calculated down to the last Heller and Pfennig from the outset. This mega-project, which will […]
How long does it actually take to clear the huge backlog of housing benefit applications in Leipzig? By 2023, the processing time for housing benefit applications had already risen to half a year. The city itself now puts the figure at nine months. And this naturally raises the question – one which was, of course, […]
It was, in fact, to be expected that this motion would provide an opportunity for an AfD city councillor such as Roland Ulbrich to once again use his speaking time to rail against democracy projects and NGOs. And that a CDU city councillor, too, would feel targeted was also to be expected. For it was […]
Fighting for two trees – is it worth it? Two 80-year-old maple trees on Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz, right next to the Bowlingtreff, in front of the future Natural History Museum. All Leipzig residents experienced just how valuable the city’s natural green spaces are during the heatwave in June and July. The city needs green spaces. Far more […]
Anyone wishing to view the full presentation of the draft for Leipzig’s 2027/2028 two-year budget for themselves can now do so. Torsten Bonew, the councillor responsible for finance, Mayor Burkhard Jung and Ulrich Hörning, the mayor responsible for administration, to the presentation of this budget package – which has truly been forged through sweat and […]
The building has been empty for months now. Over the last few days, the Geutebrück building of the HTWK on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße has now been completely covered in scaffolding. Under the supervision of the Leipzig II branch of the state-owned enterprise Sächsisches Immobilien- und Baumanagement (SIB), extensive renovation work is now underway on the Geutebrück building […]
It will be a masterstroke if the city and the city council actually manage to pass the new two-year budget for 2027/2028 on 17 December 2026. The city council itself has set this ambitious deadline. For if it doesn’t go to plan, the budget vote will fall right in the middle of the 2027 mayoral […]
Everything is getting more expensive. That’s true. Inflation is part of our lives. The only question is: what is actually driving these rising prices? And which factor is causing the most dramatic fluctuations? The latest publication from the State Statistical Office merely hints at this, reporting that Saxony’s annual inflation rate for August 2026 is […]
Ahead of the forthcoming council meeting on 2 September, Torsten Bonew, the councillor responsible for finance, has tabled a proposal to amend the by-laws governing the accommodation tax. The proposal essentially concerns only the option to submit tax returns electronically. However, the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group felt that, since a decision on amending the […]
Unemployment rose in the Leipzig Employment Agency’s district in August 2026, according to figures released by the Leipzig Employment Agency at the end of the month. 33,272 people were registered as unemployed, 683 more (2 per cent) than in July and 2,344 more (8 per cent) than a year ago. The unemployment rate stood at […]
The whole country is facing enormous challenges and really ought to be investing heavily in climate and heat protection to make it sustainable for its people. Yet the very body that could shoulder this investment is being effectively sidelined by a fiscal policy at federal and state level that has gone completely off the rails: […]
Everyone is talking about the feared election victory of the AfD. But hardly anyone is addressing the fact that this growing support for the populists may have very real causes. Namely, policies at federal and state level that completely ignore the interests of the public. This is now even evident in a survey by the […]
The demographic decline in Saxony is now also becoming apparent in the employment statistics. Whilst the number of full-time employees with German citizenship is beginning to dwindle – because the size of the incoming age cohorts has halved – the proportion of foreign employees is growing. And that is only the figure for full-time workers. […]
There is as yet no timetable for the transformation of Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz into a green oasis. However, the city intends to celebrate what is to come on Wednesday, 26 August. With a day of events on the square: between 2 pm and 6 pm, city departments and the institutions set to be based there in future […]
A question raised in the city council has consequences. At the last city council meeting in July, the BSW group wanted to know, amongst other things: “What is the current extent of municipal compensation areas within Leipzig’s urban area and outside the city limits?” It is actually an obvious question, because whenever valuable green space […]
The city’s proposal to clear the Capa-Wäldchen as a compromise to meet the land requirements of the Kleinmesse and RB Leipzig has met with strong opposition and a lack of understanding amongst the people of Leipzig. The Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen group on the Leipzig City Council also firmly rejects these plans. It has […]
Everyone’s talking about the baby boomers, even blaming them for everything that’s gone wrong in Germany. And at the same time, fears are being stoked about the time when these large cohorts will retire. And what then? The Berlin Institute for Population and Development is also giving serious thought to the baby boomers and their […]
How does one write about Russia and the Russian people – in the midst of a war? When even the use of the word ‘war’ is banned there, and foreigners are viewed with suspicion the moment they set foot in the country? In 2022, immediately after Putin launched his ‘special military operation’, the Norwegian journalist […]
The thermometer in Leipzig read up to 42.5 degrees in the shade during that remarkable week at the end of June, when the heat even caused the grout between the tram tracks to melt, bringing tram services to a standstill for days. And such temperatures will become more common in Leipzig in future. That is […]
At the council meeting on 1 July, Dr Martina Münch, the councillor responsible for social affairs, made some clear statements: just one member of staff at the social services department is handling the cases of rent gouging reported to the city. There are hundreds of them. And even that is only a fraction of the […]
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