Franz Schubert Stele, Clara Zetkin Park

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) was never in Leipzig himself, but had high hopes for the city as a publishing location. Shortly before his death, one of his compositions was published by Breitkopf & Härtel (Music Trail Station 8: Graphic Quarter - Music Publishers). More than ten years later, Schubert's music was played for the first time in the Altes Gewandhaus (music track station 21). Under Mendelssohn's direction, the "Great" C major Symphony was premiered in 1839.

The Leipzig Male Choir initiated the erection of a Schubert monument to mark the 100th anniversary of Schubert's death in 1928. A year later, in 1929, the Schubert stele was inaugurated on today's Anton-Bruckner-Allee in what was then König-Albert-Park (now Clara-Zetkin-Park). The 3.8 m high monument was designed by the Leipzig sculptor Margarete Tschaplowitz-Seifert. The tall, slender stele consists of three granite blocks set on top of each other, the cross-section of which forms an isosceles triangle.

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