In 1998, the 1813 Markkleeberg Historical Gatehouse Society opened a museum showing exhibits on subjects such as Markkleeberg during the Battle of Leipzig, local culture and rural customs.
This privately run toy museum is 117 square metres in size and contains a collection of all sorts of toys, including pie railways, steam engines, tin toys, dolls and games as well as two working ...
Right next to the restored historical estate, this small museum now shows vividly the suffering during the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and the possibilities of medical assistance available at the time.
The permanent exhibition at Westphal House, Markkleeberg, the town's cultural centre, displays Stone Age flint scrapers, knives, blades and hand axes found locally, which are up to 280,000 years old.
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