The address of Old Leipzig, Grant County, North Dakota, USA is Old Leipzig, Grant, North Dakota USA 58562, located at latitude 46.373050, longitude -101.947542.
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New Leipzig is a city in Grant County, North Dakota .. New Leipzig is a city in Grant County, North Dakota
View Larger Map The name Leipzig dates back to early 1015 in Germany. The Slavic word means “a settlement by the lime trees.” In 1813, the German Kaiser wanted to establish German colonies in Bessarabia. Many immigrants from Eastern Europe moved onward and settled in the colonies that were established. 15 families of Leipzigers came by trains to the colony of Leipzig, settling there in 1843. The one problem for the settlers was that they were too far from the railroads. So in 1910, when the Northern Pacific Railroad was constructed 11 miles southwest of Leipzig, the German-Russians moved down to the railroad and established there the settlement that was to become New Leipzig.
