Leipzig is a musical city with ties to Bach, Mendelssohn, and Schumann as well as Wagner. Bach conducted at both the Thomaskirche and the Nicolaskirche. Unfortunately, most museums and such are closed on Mondays in Germany so we couldn’t go to the Bach museum. But true to form, both of the churches were open.
Besides the churches and the musical talents associated with them, Leipzig is also famous for its university where Goethe, Nietzsche and Wagner all studied. There’s a statue of Goethe as a student outside the University and elsewhere in the city there’s a statue of his Faust being led by Mephistopheles.
Erfurt also has Europe’s oldest synagogue and a unique bridge called the Krämerbrücke. It’s the only bridge north of the Alps that has houses on both sides. In certain pictures you can’t tell it’s a bridge, it just looks like a street. And of course, Erfurt has beautiful churches, the best of which is the Marienkirche (if you haven’t figured out yet, kirche is German for church).
Finally it was time to catch the train to Frankfurt so we could check in to our hotel before dark and get some sleep before rising early for one last trip.