Leipzig in Superlatives

	The first teaching textbook in the world was printed here in 1507
	The world’s first daily newspaper was published in Leipzig in 1650
	After Milan and Hamburg the third oldest opera house in Europe (1693)
	Establishment of the first state bank in Germany in 1698	J.S. Bach in front of the Thomaskirche
	Leipzig has the oldest continuously operated café / restaurant in Europe (since 1719)
	Germany's first long-distance railway line was put into operation here in 1839
	Foundation of the first German conservatory in 1843
	Foundation of Europe's largest telephone exchange in 1923
	Since 1994 the worldwide largest and most modern mail-order firm is located in Leipzig (Quelle AG invested over 1 billion German Marks)
	In 1998 Leipzig was the first German city to receive the WORLD TRAVEL AWARD by the Association of American Travel Editors. Next to Hollywood and Vienna, Leipzig was voted as the leading Tourism Magnet of the year!
	In 2001 the largest primate facility in the world (30.000 m²) will be opened in Leipzig for behavioral research
	Leipzig has one of the largest preserved architectural districts of the "Gründerzeit" protected by UNESCO as a world cultural monument*
	The largest pub festival in Europe is celebrated twice a year in Leipzig

^* Gründerzeit = type of neo-baroque architecture around 1871 - 1873 at the time of the forming of Germany