Foto de stock - 27 October 2023, Saxony, Leipzig: Sebastian Lentz (l-r), Director of ifl, Sebastian Gemkow (CDU), Minister of Science of Saxony, Klara Geywitz (SPD), Federal Minister of Construction, Burkhard Jung (SPD), Mayor of Leipzig, and Rainer Danielzyk, Spokesman of the Leibniz Association, perform 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 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