Madler passage is a famous shopping complex of Leipzig, located in the heart of the Old town. He became known worldwide thanks to the efforts of businessmen Anton Madler and Henry Stromer.

The history of this attraction can be considered the year 1525, when the rector of Leipzig University Auerbach decided to open a wine bar. 5 years later he built a new building, which became an exhibition hall Auerbach Hof. Although it's been several centuries, the cellars and vaults of the building remained unchanged and used as a wine bar.

To the 100th anniversary of the building there was opened an exhibition hall. In 1911 the owner of the construction were Anton Nadler, who had his own plans for the construction in this place. But after many requests and messages about preservation of the wine cellars of Auerbach, Madler not only did not touch these parts of the building, but was able to expand basements, typing them into the new building.

The expansion and restructuring of the passage continued until 1914, it was used as an exhibition hall, where the public were presented wines, items of leather and porcelain. The entrance is a 5-storey building, the area of which amounted to 8 thousand square meters, is decorated with a semicircular arch with two female statues holding a vase and grapes. The roof of the passage are made of glass, its Central part is occupied by a glass rotunda, in one of its arches hanging bells made of Meissen porcelain. Every hour they play a variety of folk or classical melodies.

In 1997 the building was renovated and now houses the offices, but most areas are still boutiques and shopping pavilions, attracting many tourists.