This is a basement door from the building located at Schlegelstraße 5 which lists all of the air raids which took place in Leipzig during the Second World War. It’s scuffed, damaged and at the time it proved something of a barrier between safety and danger.
There’s nothing particularly decorative or ornate about the door, but the human touch of carefully writing these times down during moments of boredom likely interspersed with terror is rather intriguing. I rather like that the artist (or whatever the best word is here) would likely not have known when their final line noting the time and date was and I suspect it wouldn’t have occurred to them that the door would end up in the city’s museum. As for why I thought the need to write about it, I think it’s because of the logic that it holds more humanity than perhaps monuments could achieve.