Stock Photo - 27 October 2023, Saxony, Leipzig: Burkhard Jung (SPD), Mayor of Leipzig, speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (ifl). The project marks the start of the large-scale redevelopment of Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz. The current wasteland will be home to the Natural History Museum, an educational campus with an adult education center and music school, the Forum Law, the law faculty and a market hall. The ifl analyzes socio-economic structures and developments in Germany and Europe from a geographical perspective. The total cost of the new building of 47 million euros is shared by the federal government and the Free State. Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa. - Leipzig/Saxony/Germany