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Price is P 421 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 5m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Dive into the rough, beating heart of West Leipzig. This captivating tour takes you through Plagwitz, a district with a thousand faces. From a visionary industrial utopia of the 19th century to a ghost town after the Cold War, to one of Europe's most vibrant and controversial creative centers. You walk along historic canals, stand in the shadow of monumental brick factories, and discover the tension between alternative artist communities and creeping gentrification. This is a story about iron, cotton, collapse, and the unstoppable force of human creativity.

    • 4.2 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 125 min.
    • Ideal for everyone interested in urbanism, infrastructure & innovation and urbanism & innovation
      Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals
    • Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Activity location

  • Westwerk Große Halle
    • 93 Karl-Heine-Straße
    • 04229, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Westwerk Große Halle
    • 93 Karl-Heine-Straße
    • 04229, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

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Podcast Tour Leipzig The Industrial Rebirth of Plagwitz in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 5 minutes2h 5m
    2h 5m
  • Opening hours: Sun 0:00-23:59
  • English
Price details
P 420.84 x 2 AdultsP 841.68
Total
Price is P 841.68

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Exciting audio output in podcast style with experts and locals
  • Inclusions
    Interactive guide in the app for questions about history and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Verified facts incorporated into an exciting story
  • Inclusions
    Point-to-point navigation between stops

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transportation options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Westwerk Große Halle

  • 10m
A former iron foundry that has become a sprawling art complex and perfectly embodies the rough transition phase of Plagwitz.

Das Jahrtausendfeld

  • 10m
A huge, nature-reclaimed wasteland that serves as a visual break and a symbol of post-industrial emptiness.

Weißenfelser Str. 65H

  • 10m
An architectural icon built on concrete stilts over the canal and a prime example of award-winning industrial reuse.

Konsumzentrale Leipzig

  • 10m
A striking building of brick expressionism, modeled after an ocean liner and originally the headquarters of the consumer cooperative.

Kunstkraftwerk

  • 10m
A former power plant that has been transformed into an immersive center for digital art, marking the shift from physical to cultural energy production.

Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei

  • 10m
Once Europe's largest cotton spinning mill, today a world-famous art complex and the epicenter of the New Leipzig School.

Bürgerbahnhof Plagwitz

  • 10m
A former industrial railway site that has been reclaimed by the neighborhood and is now a sprawling city park and a symbol of transformation from below.

Location

Activity location

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    Westwerk Große Halle
    • 93 Karl-Heine-Straße
    • 04229, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Westwerk Große Halle
    • 93 Karl-Heine-Straße
    • 04229, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

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