The Augustusplatz is a square located at the east end of the city centre of Leipzig, borough Leipzig-Mitte. It is the city's largest square and one of the largest squares in Europe. It is also part of
Augustusplatz panorama, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts at Augustusplatz in 1890
Neues Theater on Augustusplatz, in 1900
Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics.
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig-Mitte with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016).
First Gewandhaus (1781). Watercolour by Felix Mendelssohn, with some lines from the opera Ali Baba by Luigi Cherubini, presented to Henriette Grabau-Bünau, principal singer of the Gewandhaus, to mark Mendelssohn's inaugural concert there on 4 October 1835.