[3] Today it is a heavily frequented pedestrian zone in a prime location with department stores, shops, restaurants, hotels, a museum and the university as residents.

The design by the treibhaus landschaftsarchitektur office was selected and implemented as part of an expert review process with the participation of a children's jury.

Grimmaische Strasse can be reached by public transport via the tram stops at Augustusplatz in the east and the underground S-Bahn station Markt in the west.

The transports from Silesia (Breslau), Kiev and Moscow rolled via Görlitz via Grimmaische Strasse to the Markt or to the Brühl street for processing and sale.

An exception was the stone-made Fürstenhaus built in 1558 by master builder Paul Widemann († 1568) for the councilor Georg Roth († 1594) on the corner of today's Universitätsstrasse.

In 1806 she moved the botanical garden to the area behind the Wasserkunst on the Pleisse mill ditch and had a one-story building with a narrow portico in front built between the Fürstenhaus and the Grimmaische Tor, the so-called ″colonnades″, the individual units of which were rented to merchants and craftsmen.

The colonnades were replaced in 1849 by a four-story building designed by Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868), the Mauricianum, of which the ground floor and mezzanine were rented to businessmen.

Also completed in 1898 as a trade fair palace, the Reichshof with neo-baroque decor has its address on Reichsstrasse, but was expanded in 1904 to include the property at Grimmaische Strasse 9 to 11 with an Art Nouveau building.

Today's Hansa House with its arcade gallery to Specks Hof was also a trade fair palace since the beginning of the 20th century, which was hit by bombs in 1943 and rebuilt in 1958/59 and then again in 1997.

The oriel window of the old Fürstenhaus (Princely House) from the Saxon Renaissance period was attached as a copy to the new apartment building at Grimmaische Strasse 17 in 1986.

Straight house numbers starting from the market The entrance to the Mädler Arcade Gallery (Mädlerpassage) (1912 to 1914) on Grimmaische Strasse is formed by a round arched portal that extends to the first floor.

The building complex was associated with the trade fair in the 20th century before it was extensively renovated from 1995 to 1997 and continued to be used by shops and restaurants, including Auerbachs Keller.

The department store Galeria Kaufhof, which was newly built on a war-used waste site between 1999 and 2001, has the address Neumarkt 1, but its north side is on Grimmaische Strasse.