Leipzig’s sporting past locked in a basement while new museum stalls
Täve Schur’s coat and other relics of Leipzig’s athletic glory are stored in a school basement, waiting for a proper home as plans for a new museum stall indefinitely.
Leipzig’s official sports museum collection is gathering dust in a rarely visited school basement, denied a public home despite housing irreplaceable artifacts like the coat of cycling legend Täve Schur. The collection, officially owned by the city, includes items that chronicle Leipzig’s outsized role in German sports history—yet the public rarely sees them. The centerpiece, Schur’s coat, symbolizes an era when East German athletes dominated global cycling, but it remains locked away in a cellar beneath a school in the southern district of Connewitz.
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