Handelshof Leipzig, Former trade fair building in Leipzig, Germany

The Handelshof is a former trade-fair building on the east side of the Naschmarkt, occupying a full block between Naschmarkt, Grimmaische Straße, Reichsstraße and Salzgäßchen. Built in 1908–1909 to a design by Georg Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer, it has a ground floor, a mezzanine and three upper floors around two large light wells, with exits onto all four streets. The Naschmarkt facade is divided by eight-metre round arches and carries historicising sculpture by Bruno Wollstädter.

The Handelshof was built in 1908 and 1909 as Leipzig's second Mustermessehaus, after the Städtisches Kaufhaus, on the site of the Burgkellerblock, which stood there from 1565 to 1907. The city had bought up the block from 1874, originally intending it for the Neues Rathaus. A 1905 competition was won by Georg Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer; demolition began in 1907. After the air raid of 4 December 1943 the building burned out in part and was fully restored only in the 1960s, with the tower tops left off.

The Naschmarkt facade is divided by eight-metre-high round arches and carries historicising architectural motifs with rich sculpture by Leipzig sculptor Bruno Wollstädter. Much of that building sculpture was removed when the ground-floor facade was simplified after the war, and the destroyed tower tops were not rebuilt.

The building has exits onto all four surrounding streets and the Naschmarkt, so it works as a shortcut through the block. The ground floor holds shops and restaurants as in the original plan; the upper floors belong to the Steigenberger Grandhotel with 163 rooms and 13 suites. The two large light courts are visible from the passages.

The building's steel-reinforced concrete upper floors carried more than 300 small, adaptable stands for trade-fair exhibitors, with a total exhibition area of about 9,000 square metres. The ground floor was intended for retail from the start, as it is again today.