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Leipzig is Saxony's most populous city, a trade fair and university city with a trade fair tradition dating back to 1190. Musically, Johann Sebastian Bach, who served as Thomaskantor from 1723 to 1750, and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy have left their mark on the city, today upheld by the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Thomanerchor.In 1989, peace prayers at Nikolaikirche led to the Monday Demonstrations, which, under the slogan "No Violence," helped bring about the end of the GDR. Today, Leipzig boasts a compact city center with arcades and churches, the art complex of the former Baumwollspinnerei in the west, and lively nightlife districts in the south.

Havelland, a historic Brandenburg landscape, broadly encircles the Havel west of Berlin. Lakes and lowlands define the area; much fruit and vegetables are grown around Werder. Theodor Fontane dedicated a volume of his "Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg" to the Havelland.Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital and visitor hub, directly borders southwest Berlin. Its palaces and parks became UNESCO World Heritage in 1990. The S7 S-Bahn line offers easy access from Berlin.

Potsdam is Brandenburg's state capital and, with around 184,000 residents, the largest city in the state. It lies on the mid-course of the Havel in a landscape of forests and lakes, directly southwest of Berlin.Potsdam is famous for its palaces and gardens, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1990: from Sanssouci and the New Palace to the New Garden with Cecilienhof Palace, where the Potsdam Conference was held in 1945. Other highlights include the Dutch Quarter with its brick houses and the Russian Colony Alexandrowka.

Charlottenburg received city rights on April 5, 1705, and its name in honour of Queen Sophie Charlotte; in 1920, the city became part of Greater Berlin. After 1945, the area around Bahnhof Zoo, Breitscheidplatz, and Kurfürstendamm developed into City West, the new centre of West Berlin, because the historic city centre was located in the Soviet sector. Its landmark is the ruin of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, whose tower was not demolished after citizen protests.You stroll along the Kurfürstendamm with its flagship stores and theatres, visit the Zoological Garden and the Memorial Church, and end your evening at Savignyplatz, where restaurants, bars, jazz clubs, and bookstores cluster. Through Charlottenburg run the U-Bahn lines U1, U2, U3, U7, and U9; S-Bahn trains of the Stadtbahn stop at Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten and Savignyplatz, as do regional trains at Zoo.

Until 1912, Neukölln was called Rixdorf: A document from 1360 mentions the village, and in 1737 Friedrich Wilhelm I. settled Bohemian religious refugees who founded Böhmisch-Rixdorf. In 1899 Rixdorf became a city, in 1920 Neukölln joined Greater Berlin, and after the war, it belonged to West Berlin. Today, the densely built-up north with its Gründerzeit districts is vibrantly diverse; by mid-2021 almost half of its residents had a migration background from 155 countries.You can stroll along Sonnenallee and Karl-Marx-Straße, discover old Rixdorf around Richardplatz with its forge and Bethlehemskirche, and descend into the lower-lying Körnerpark. In Reuterkiez, which Berliners call Kreuzkölln, and in Schillerkiez, many bars and cafés have opened since the 2000s, and right next door, the expansive Tempelhofer Feld beckons. At Hermannplatz U-Bahn station, lines U7 and U8 intersect, and the S-Bahn lines S41, S42, S45, S46, and S47 also run through the district.