New Town Hall Audio Guide Tour

This self-guided audio tour explores Leipzig through its music, architecture, and civic history. It will appeal to first-time visitors who enjoy classical music, historic churches, museums, and the layered story of a city that helped shape German cultural life. The route begins at Leipzig Hauptbahnhof and leads into the city center, where you pass Oper Leipzig, Augustusplatz, and the Gewandhaus, home of the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. From there, the tour continues to the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts and Moritzbastei, then turns toward the monumental New Town Hall. In the old city, you follow Leipzig’s intellectual and spiritual heart through the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, St. Thomas Church, Marktplatz, the Old Town Hall at the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, and St. Nicholas Church, a key place in the peaceful protests of 1989. The tour ends at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. Along the way, the most memorable experiences include standing where Johann Sebastian Bach worked, seeing the grand cultural buildings around Augustusplatz, stepping into churches tied to both faith and political change, and finishing among major artworks in one of Leipzig’s most striking modern museum buildings.

Welcome to the famous city of Leipzig! This tour guides you to the city’s most famous attractions and narrates to you the history behind each place. The tour is on foot and consists of about fourteen attractions in the city center district. Our tour begins at the main train station, the Leipzig Hauptbahnhof. This train station is part of Leipzig’s global fame and is, therefore, our first attraction. You will see all the top Leipzig sights, including the town halls, St. Nicholas Church, and the Bach Archive. Today, this archive is a world-renowned center for Bach research. The tour ends at the Museum of Fine Arts. Due to the cultural significance of the museum, it is listed in the German Blue Book and is one of the 20 so-called cultural lighthouses of former East Germany. Get ready to explore one of the most beautiful cities in Germany!