page_title: Franz Dominic Grassi
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Dominic Grassi / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Leipzig, Mendebrunnen auf dem Augustusplatz 1898 Heliogravur 19 x 25 cm Plattenrand, Verlag und Kunstanstalt Gustav Brinkmann Leipzig.
context_page_description: Franz Dominic Grassi was a merchant in Leipzig with Italian ancestry family. Through his extensive heritage to the city, it was possible to construct numerous monuments and buildings.
context_section_description: Although Grassi largely considered in his testament even distant relatives, godchildren and servants, he left the city a fortune of 2.327 million Gold Mark (approx. 23 million euro). From this property numerous construction projects, parks and monuments have been supported, some of which were destroyed during World War II (New Gewandhaus and the museums on Augustusplatz. Of the remaining buildings is the Grassi Museum at Johannisplatz, the "Old Grassi Museum" (now Leipzig city library) and the Mendebrunnen mention. Furthermore parts of the money was used for the erection of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal, and the monuments for Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
  Since 2002 the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Germany and the TU Chemnitz endow the "Franz Dominic Grassi Prize" for services to promote the German-Italian trade and economic relations.
caption: Mendebrunnen at Augustusplatz in 1898
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