Karl-Heine-Strasse is a radial road in the west of Leipzig marking the boundary between the current localities of Leipzig-Plagwitz (to the south) and Leipzig-Lindenau (to the north).

[1] The section between Karl-Heine-Platz and Giesserstrasse is built on the route of the former Via Regia, which came via Felsenkellerstrasse and led (through the current building at Karl-Heine-Strasse 103) to Alte Salzstrasse.

This section of track, then the entire current western part of the street when it was extended, was called Albertstrasse, just like the Albertbrücke (Litt.

[2] The eastern section between Plagwitzer Brücke and Karl-Heine-Platz was laid out in the second half of the 19th century and was mostly built with villas, most of which still exist today.

For almost 30 years, Michaelis-Max Joske ran two department stores in Leipzig, one on Windmühlenstrasse and a smaller one on Karl-Heine-Strasse 43–45.

Built in the neo-baroque style in 1909, it was for more than 20 years the prestigious family seat of agricultural machinery manufacturer Gustav Rudolph Friedrich Sack.

Currently it is the office for two divisions responsible for criminal matters of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany.

The name came about because of the architectural decoration, which refers to the works The Ring Of The Nibelung by Richard Wagner (1813–1883) and Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900).

: rock cellar) is a performance hall where concerts, public readings and other cultural events take place.

The complex included a ballroom and concert hall with a capacity of 1,000 seats, as well as an open-air cinema, veranda, terrace and garden.

[11] It was in 1876 that the mason Carl Schmidt, already the owner of a neighboring restaurant, built a ballroom of the name in this location in the space of three months.

In 1943, part of the building was sold for a sheet metal and stove pipe manufacturing factory, the Fröhlich Fabrik.

The building is rented by the artists' association ars*avanti 6 to Westwerk Logistics GmbH, owned by the industrial engineer Christian Voigt living in Starnberg.

[18] In 2017, an announcement from the owner that part of the premises would be sold for commercial purposes, notably to establish a supermarket, caused a stir among artists.

There is a large open space along the northern side of the street between King-Albert-Bridge and Giesserstrasse which is called Jahrtausendfeld (Litt.