This street block panorama shows a part of the western front of the August-Bebel-Strasse in Leipzig Südvorstadt (“southern suburb”). The former Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse, later renamed after the communist August Bebel, developed in the late 19th century during the Gründerzeit (“founders epoch”) when the city grew to the south. The August-Bebel-Street is offering exceptional examples for Gründerzeit architecture, as quite many representational buildings were erected in the street. This panorama can only show a very small part of this. Exceptional in another way is the fact that in the street there still railway tracks are existing, while they fullfilled no target-oriented function for years.
Meanwhile we photographed ca. 75% of the August-Bebel-Straße between Körnerstraße and Richard-Lehmann-Straße, which means we will work on more parts of the street in the future or on specific request. See or Leipzig map.
