Railway line Leipzig Hbf – Leipzig-Connewitz

	-0.155	Leipzig Central Station	122 m
		to Gera, Großkorbetha, Halle (Saale) and Bitterfeld
		to Geithain and Dresden
	2.080	Leipzig East	125 m
	2.700	Junction Torgauer Str
		to Abzw Püchauer Str
		Leipzig – Dresden , Leipzig – Geithain
	3.600	Leipzig- Sellerhausen	125 m
	4.700	Leipzig Anger-Crottendorf	125 m
		Leipzig Eilenburger Bf-Eilenburg
		Leipzig-Engelsdorf-Leipzig-Stötteritz ( freight ring )
		from Leipzig-Engelsdorf
	5.990	Leipzig-Stötteritz	130 m
		to the former Abzw Tabakmühle (and further towards Leipzig MDR )
	7.000	Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal *	130 m
	8.300	Leipzig- Marienbrunn	125 m
		from Leipzig Bayer Bf
	8.640	Leipzig- Connewitz	118 m
		to Hof Hbf

* Stopping point since 12/2013 on the parallel route Leipzig-Engelsdorf-Abzw Tabakmühle (km 5.543)

The Leipzig Hbf – Leipzig-Connewitz line was a double-track, electrified main line in Saxony . The short connecting line ran from Leipzig Central Station to Connewitz and there merged with the main line from Leipzig Bayerischer Bf to Hof . It has been shut down between Leipzig Central Station and Leipzig-Stötteritz since November 2012.

Sellerhäuser Railway Viaduct (November 2012)

Hp Anger-Crottendorf (old) after track dismantling (March 2015)

history

As a large private railway company , the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie had always been interested in further developing its network independently of other railways. After their nationalization on July 1, 1876, priority was given to connecting their routes to the existing state railway network. In this context, the connection from today's Leipzig main station to Connewitz was established. The Royal Saxon State Railways opened the line on August 20, 1878.

In the early 1960s, the line was electrified as one of the first in the GDR as part of the Saxon Triangle project . On January 15, 1962, the electric train service began.

With the establishment of the Leipzig S-Bahn traffic between 1968 and 1970, the new stops at Sellerhausen , Anger-Crottendorf , Messegelände (later: Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal ) and Marienbrunn were reopened. These were operated until November 2012. The Anger-Crottendorf and Völkerschlachtdenkmal stops were subsequently relocated to the Leipzig-Engelsdorf – Abzw Tabakmühle (–Leipzig-Connewitz) line .

Construction work

As part of the realization of the Leipzig City Tunnel , measures to supplement the network were also implemented on this route. The city tunnel was integrated into the existing network, and the prerequisites for the S-Bahn network in Central Germany were created.

Specifically, the following have been implemented on this route since October 2011:

Closure of the Leipzig-Dresdener Güterbahnhof – Leipzig Connewitz section with the closure of the Leipzig Ost, Sellerhausen (upper platform) and Anger-Crottendorf stops
Relocation of the Anger-Crottendorf stop to route 6375 of the freight ring
Change of the S-Bahn line in the further course from east (route 6361) to west (route 6375, Güterring) and the freight train tracks from the west to the east side (further towards Gaschwitz)
Redesign of the Stötteritz train station
Relocation of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal stop to route 6375
Integration of the S-Bahn line in the city tunnel by renewing the connecting curve to the Bayerischer Bahnhof
Closure of the Marienbrunn stop
Redesign of the Connewitz train station
Replacement construction of the associated bridge structures
Construction of new tracks including overhead lines, switches and noise barriers

As part of the network-enhancing measures for the city tunnel, the line between Leipzig Hbf and Leipzig-Stötteritz was shut down at the end of operations on November 24, 2012. The trains were diverted via the Westring. The main reason for this was the missing bridges in Stötteritz (overpass structure) and Sellerhausen (overpass over the Leipzig – Dresden route) as well as the changed line network of the S-Bahn in Central Germany. All tourist traffic on the route from Gaschwitz to Leipzig Central Station has been routed through the City Tunnel since December 2013.

In order to reuse the disused section of the route, the establishment of a three-kilometer high path has been discussed since 2011 under the name “Parkbogen Ost”. This would create an attractive connection between the green spaces in this area for pedestrians and cyclists. The conversion of the former railway line is expected to cost up to 16 million euros. The existing five stone bridges would be renovated.

In the train station Leipzig Hbf and Leipzig-Dresdener Güterbahnhof the train for the introduction of the high-speed line Erfurt-Leipzig moved the line Leipzig-Dresden in the summer of 2014 to the position of the previous main tracks from and to Connewitz, with extended platforms, higher entry and exit speeds for through traffic To enable trains between Dresden (as well as Berlin) and Erfurt or Halle with fewer route exclusions.

literature

Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways . transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .

Web links

Commons : Railway line Leipzig Hbf – Leipzig-Connewitz - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Jens Rometsch: Master plan for the giant park arch east in Leipzig is in place. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. November 24, 2016, accessed May 24, 2018 .
↑ Park arch east. In: leipzig.de. Urban renewal East / EU standard programs - City of Leipzig, accessed on May 24, 2018 .
↑ Jens Rometsch: Park bow East: Leipzig buys embankment and seven bridges. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. December 16, 2017, accessed May 24, 2018 .

[1] Jens Rometsch: Master plan for the giant park arch east in Leipzig is in place. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. November 24, 2016, accessed May 24, 2018 .

[2] Park arch east. In: leipzig.de. Urban renewal East / EU standard programs - City of Leipzig, accessed on May 24, 2018 .

[3] Jens Rometsch: Park bow East: Leipzig buys embankment and seven bridges. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. December 16, 2017, accessed May 24, 2018 .