Franz Schubert Stele, Clara Zetkin Park

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) never visited 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 (Note Trail Station 8: Graphic Quarter - Music Publishers). More than ten years later, Schubert's music was played for the first time in the Old Gewandhaus (Note Trail Station 21). The "great" C major symphony was premiered in 1839 under the direction of Mendelssohn.

The Leipzig Men's Choir initiated the construction of a Schubert monument on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Schubert's death in 1928. One year later, in 1929, the Schubert stele was inaugurated on what is now Anton-Bruckner-Allee in what was then König-Albert-Park (now Clara-Zetkin-Park). The design for the 3,8 m high monument was created by the Leipzig sculptor Margarete Tschaplowitz-Seifert. The tall, slender stele consists of three granite blocks placed one on top of the other, the cross-section of which forms an isosceles triangle.