Walking routes in Leipzig
Open the app, choose a route, and start walking. Curated routes are created by our editors and include professionally designed quiz questions that can be solved by anyone, even without prior knowledge. You can also create your own route in the app completely free of charge. These routes also include curious stories and visual discovery questions.
Leipzig on foot
Leipzig's city centre is compact and full of arcades. The Old Town Hall from 1556 stands on the market square. At the Thomaskirche Johann Sebastian Bach was cantor from 1723 until his death in 1750, and he is buried there. The Monday demonstrations of autumn 1989 started from the Nikolaikirche. The Mädler-Passage arcade is home to Auerbachs Keller, the cellar Goethe describes in his Faust.
CuriFox turns this into a free self-guided walking tour: you set a start and an end, and the app leads you past places most people walk by.
Where to walk in Leipzig: ideas for start and finish
In the app you only pick a start and a finish, CuriFox builds the way between them. Leipzig is flat and compact, most loops work without a tram. A few ideas:
City centre. Inside the ring the market square, the old town hall of 1556, St. Nicholas, St. Thomas and the shopping passages lie close together. Once through the old town and back along the ring is about 2 kilometres, the shortest loop.
Südvorstadt and Connewitz. From the new town hall down Karl-Liebknecht-Straße to the Connewitzer Kreuz: around 3 kilometres of pubs, shops and cinemas, the Leipzig version of an evening stroll.
Plagwitz and Lindenau. Along the Karl-Heine canal, under old bridges, past the halls of the former cotton mill, now galleries: 3 to 4 kilometres through the old industrial quarter in the west.
Clara-Zetkin-Park. From the centre through the Johannapark and the Clara-Zetkin-Park to the Elster flood channel: about 3 kilometres, almost all meadows and water, good for families.
Gohlis and Rosental. From the 18th century Gohlis manor house through the Rosental park with its lookout tower back towards the zoo: around 3 kilometres in the north of the city.
Monument to the Battle of the Nations. From the Südvorstadt to the 91 metre monument of 1913 and back across the South Cemetery: 3 to 4 kilometres, with the stairs up at the finish for the view over the city.
Tip: for 7 to 15 kilometres head south into the lake district, from Connewitz along the Pleiße to Lake Cospuden is about 8 kilometres.
