Leipzig city harbour opened on 5 June 2026 in Saxony, Germany, with Leipzig mayor Burkhard Jung and Saxony minister-president Michael Kretschmer attending the inauguration. The project followed years of interim use and a construction phase focused on establishing a central waterway hub for the Leipzig New Lake District network.
Operating as a stop on water tourism routes 1 to 7, the harbour covers about 1.38 hectares on Schreberstraße, with a basin of nearly 4,000 square metres. It includes 49 berths, with nine assigned to passenger vessels and 40 used by recreational and family boats, along with mooring points for canoes and other paddle craft.
Facilities at the site include a pedestrian bridge, 90 bicycle parking spaces and an accessible waterfront layout. The area also features seating zones and newly planted trees, shrubs, grasses and perennial plants.
Stadthafen Leipzig GmbH invested around €5.5 million (approximately $6.3 million USD) under a concession arrangement. This covered a building with catering facilities, public toilets, a canoe centre and two smaller boathouses.
The city invested around €15.67 million (about $18 million), with around 90 percent of the funding provided through federal and state programmes under the “Improvement of Regional Economic Structures” scheme. Planning and early concept work also received support from FR-Regio, FR Urban Heritage Conservation and FR Waterways/Flood Protection programmes.
Preparatory work started in November 2021, followed by the start of main construction in September 2023. An outer breakwater had already been completed in 2010 during earlier work on the Elstermühlgraben canal system.
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