Demokratieglocke, Leipzig

The Democracy Bell is a monument located on the Augustusplatz in Leipzig. The monument is a brass-colored, egg-shaped bell made of bronze, which is about 150 cm high. The bell is dedicated to the Peaceful Revolution and was inaugurated on the 20th anniversary of the Monday demonstration of October 9, 1989, which was October 9, 2009.

On Mondays, the bell strikes twelve times at 6:35 p.m. in reference to the start of the Monday demonstration on October 9, 1989. On all other days, between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. the bell strikes once every hour, randomly between one and up to twelve strikes. A haiku by Durs Grünbein is engraved in the granite ring around the egg.

An offer from the East German Foundry Network in 2007 to donate a bell to the city for October 9, 2009 was accepted by Walter Christian Steinbach in the summer of 2008. In the competition that determined the design of the monument, Via Lewandowsky's concept won. The bell was cast in August 2009 in the Lauchhammer Art and Bell Foundry.

Popularly, the bell is also called the Golden Egg.

For Easter 2013, the Democracy Bell was knitted in as a hen by a guerrilla knitting group.