# Städtisches Kaufhaus

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The Städtisches Kaufhaus stands in Leipzig as a Baroque Revival building shaped by trade, music, and urban history. Its architects were Rayher, Korber, and Müller. Built in three stages between 1894 and 1901, it became an early specialised sample-fair building. The site previously held Leipzig’s first Gewandhaus. That fifteenth-century cloth house served foreign merchants and included an armoury after Leipzig gained imperial fair privileges. Later, the municipal library occupied the site. Parts of its historic fabric remain integrated into the present building, including a baroque stairway and former concert-hall traces. Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchestra once performed here. Musicians including Mozart, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Liszt appeared in the concert hall designed by Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe.

Offices, shops, and restaurants now occupy the building. Look for Leipzig’s oldest preserved lift, the Maximilian statue on Universitätsstraße, and the courtyard’s Straße der Stars. The courtyard displays handprints from Mariah Carey, Max Schmeling, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Covered walkways connect the Städtisches Kaufhaus with Leipzig’s arcade galleries. Together, these details show how one Leipzig address links commerce, architecture, and civic culture.

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