Neustadt (Leipzig)

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View from Hedwigstrasse to the Holy Cross Church (2015)

Neustadt is a district in the east of Leipzig . It is located about 2.5 km northeast of Leipzig city center, beyond the Ostvorstadt (district center-east), from which it is separated by Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße. Neustadt is bounded in the south by Eisenbahnstraße ( Neuschönefeld district ), in the east by Hermann-Liebmann-Straße ( Volkmarsdorf district ), and in the north by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway .

Neustadt came into being with the expansion of Leipzig in the early days , and emerged in 1881 as an independent municipality from the new extension of the municipality of Schönefeld . On January 1, 1890, Neustadt, which at that time already had 9,301 inhabitants, was united with the city of Leipzig.

The Neustadt district has an area of ​​21.8 hectares. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the district was merged with Neuschönefeld and part of Reudnitz to form the statistical-administrative district of Neustadt-Neuschönefeld . This belongs to the eastern district .

history

The Holy Cross Church in Leipzig-Neustadt (around 1900)

The new extension in front of Schönefeld was planned around 1870 in the south-western (i.e. the closest to Leipzig) part of the former Schönefeld manor district. This was a reaction to the population boom in the city of Leipzig as a result of the industrial revolution . The site initially had an approximately square ground plan, delimited by Alleestraße (today Schulze-Delitzsch-Straße) in the north, Kirchweg (today Hermann-Liebmann-Straße) in the east, the former route of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway (today Eisenbahnstraße) in South and Hauptstrasse (today Neustädter Strasse) to the west.

Listed manual pump in Hedwigstrasse

In the middle of the area, a cross between the north-south direction Hedwigstrasse (named after the Schönefeld landowner Hedwig von Eberstein ) and the west-east Mariannenstrasse (after Hedwig's mother Marianne Freifrau von Eberstein) was created. The resulting north and south halves of the site were halved again by a parallel street each running from west to east. A square market square (Neustädter Markt) was created at the northern end of Hedwigstrasse. The resulting squares were then parceled out and three- to four-story apartment buildings built on ( perimeter block development ).

From Easter 1874 there was a makeshift school in Ludwigstrasse: two teachers and one assistant teacher taught 270 children in three classes. As early as 1875, the "new extension" had around 4,300 inhabitants, significantly more than the parent community of Schönefeld with around 2900 inhabitants. In the same year, the Schönefeld municipal council decided to set up its own fire brigade train for the new extension, which was equipped with a cart sprayer. The living conditions were cramped, the security situation questionable. According to an article in the Leipziger Tageblatt from 1876, Leipzig police officers described the new extension as “suspected”. From 1877 a school building was built in what was then Alleestraße, which was inaugurated on Reformation Day in 1878 (today's Wilhelm-Wander-Grundschule). The route of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway was relocated in 1879 and has since run north of Neustadt, instead of the previous railway line, the Eisenbahnstraße was laid out.

The "new annex" was separated from the Schönefeld manor district in 1881 and then formed an independent rural community under the name Neustadt bei Leipzig in the administrative authority of Leipzig . At the end of 1882 Neustadt was connected to the network of the Leipzig Horse Railway by the Neuschönefelder streetcar route . In 1885 the community Neustadt already had 7656 inhabitants. On January 1, 1890, it was incorporated into the city of Leipzig at the same time as the neighboring communities of Neuschönefeld and Volkmarsdorf . After the sawmill (steam cutting mill ) Bäßler & Bomnitz , located west of Neustadt since 1845 , was demolished in 1889, residential development was continued there in the early 1890s - up to today's Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße. By 1900 the population grew to 12,314.

Neustadt was largely spared from destruction in the Second World War. However, the old buildings fell into disrepair during the GDR period, as no investment was made in their maintenance. The low standard of equipment (apartments without bathroom, sometimes only outside toilet) was considered unattractive. After the fall of the Wall in 1991, around 800 of the around 2,300 apartments in Neustadt were empty. With the municipal structure of 1992, the city administration assigned Neustadt to the statistical district Neustadt-Neuschönefeld. In the same year, the council declared the entire Neustadt a redevelopment area . After the renovation of most of the residential buildings, the residential area is enjoying increasing popularity again, especially among young adults and people with a migration background , and the number of residents is increasing significantly. However, the area on Eisenbahnstraße is still considered to be a social hotspot and focus of crime.

Holy Cross Church

The center of Neustadt is the Holy Cross Church in neo-Gothic style , built in 1893/94 according to plans by the German architect Paul Lange, on Neustädter Markt . The 67 m high main tower is in line of sight to Hedwigstrasse and is clad with red facing bricks. In 2009 the organ built by Bautzen organ builder Hermann Eule from 1894 was completely renovated.

Gallery Hotel Leipziger Hof

Gallery Hotel Leipziger Hof (2015)

The Galerie Hotel Leipziger Hof in Hedwigstrasse, opened at the end of 1992 by the physics professor Klaus Eberhard , is one of the listed buildings (built in 1886) and is characterized in particular by the original works of art by contemporary artists of the Leipzig School and New Leipzig School exhibited throughout the hotel, including the guest rooms out. The owner of the hotel acquired the collection during the fall of the 1990s and expanded it in the following years. In addition to this permanent exhibition, there are regular solo exhibitions in the hotel's integrated gallery galerie.leipziger-schule , opened in December 1995. The collection includes works by Arno Rink , Elisabeth Voigt , Michael Fischer-Art , Neo Rauch , Sighard Gille , Werner Tübke , among others and Wolfgang Mattheuer .

In October 2008 the Galerie Hotel Leipziger Hof was the filming location for the Hotel Elster in the MDR crime scene Mauerblümchen with Simone Thomalla and Martin Wuttke .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b André Loh-Kliesch: Neustadt . In: Leipzig Lexicon .
  2. ↑ a b Harald Stein: About the Neustädter Children. In: Neustädter Markt-Journal , 1992.
  3. ↑ Leipziger Tageblatt of February 6, 1876. Quoted in: Harald Stein: About the emergence of the Neustädter fire brigade. In: Neustädter Markt-Journal , January 1995.
  4. ↑ Harald Stein: About an old sawmill site. In: Neustädter Markt-Journal , January 1994.
  5. ^ Mirko Seidel: Leipzig, district Neustadt-Neuschönefeld. In: architektur-blicklicht , October 15, 2013.
  6. ^ André Loh-Kliesch: Neustädter Markt (redevelopment area) . In: Leipzig Lexicon .
  7. ↑ Kim Bürgl: Social hot spots - Rethinking for urban planning. Interview with Andreas Thiesen, Radio Mephisto 97.6, September 29, 2016.
  8. ^ Frank Döring: Report of the Ministry of the Interior - These are Leipzig's dangerous places. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 9, 2019.
  9. ^ Churches in Leipzig
  10. ↑ Here you sleep with an original. In: Website Gallery Hotel Leipziger Hof. July 15, 2015, accessed August 22, 2015 .
  11. ↑ The art collection. In: Website Galerie Hotel Leipziger Hof (older version). January 18, 2012, accessed August 22, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Shooting of the MDR crime scene "Mauerblümchen" in October 2008 in the Galerie Hotel Leipziger Hof. In: Website Gallery Hotel Leipziger Hof. December 18, 2009, accessed August 22, 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Neustadt-Neuschönefeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Klaus Eberhard: Visiting Mattheuer and Rauch - Diary of a Leipzig art collector EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86502-292-9

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '  N , 12 ° 24'  E