NIKOLAIKIRCHHOF - COURTYARD OF ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH
The courtyard of St. Nicholas Church is one of the most charming squares in the city centre. It is bordered by two superb buildings: the Gothic Nikolaikirche and the Alte Nikolaischule, an imposing Renaissance building from 1568 which was Leipzig's main school until the 19th century. The latter was frequented by Leibniz, Thomasius, Wagner or Karl Liebknecht. The square is also lined with elegant Gründerzeit buildings from the 1900s; entirely pedestrian, but away from the commercial tide of much of the old town, it has a charm of historical character, elegance, tranquility and privacy. In its centre, you will discover a strange monument: a column surmounted by green palms that echoes the main motif of the church's interior. It is the Friedensäule, the Peace Column, erected here in 1999 to commemorate the peaceful Monday demonstrations that left the Nikolaikirche in the autumn of 1989, and which were a kind of quiet earthquake to bring down the communist regime
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