Engelsdorf (Leipzig)

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Engelsdorf
district of Leipzig
Coordinates 51 ° 20 ′ 15 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 15 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 15 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 15 ″  E.
surface 8.21 km²
Residents 9290 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density 1132 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1999
Postcodes 04316, 04319
prefix 0341
Borough east
Transport links
railroad RE 50, RB 110, RB 113
Train S 4
bus 72, 73, 90, 172
Source: statistik.leipzig.de
Engelsdorf and Sommerfeld around 1891

Engelsdorf is a district in the east of the Saxon city of Leipzig .

history

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Engelsdorf is at least 800 years old, as the Engelsdorf church was built around 1170.

The place was originally a street tanger village (along Hauptstr./Karl-Marx-Str./Engelsdorfer Str.). The course of the Angers can still be seen from the building lines. Later the pond was drained and the northern road removed. The Church of St. Pankratius (Evangelical Lutheran) is not in the center of the village, but behind the roadside farms on a small hill that could not be used for agriculture. With the construction of the Leipzig – Dresden railway line in 1837, a large marshalling yard , a depot and other industrial facilities were built. Engelsdorf now grew very quickly to the north (towards the railway line) and west (towards the railway facilities). The railway still dominates history today. Until 1856, Engelsdorf was part of the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Leipzig I and from 1875 to the administrative authority of Leipzig .

In 1923, the neighboring town of Sommerfeld was incorporated - so both villages prevented the threatened incorporation into Leipzig. The community was wealthy. At the beginning of the 20th century, the then mayor Winkler and master builder Günther planned a new town center with a wide boulevard (today's Arthur-Winkler-Strasse), the main school building (today's grammar school ) and opposite (in today's Engelsdorf Park) a corresponding town hall . The latter was not carried out.

The church in Engelsdorf in 2017
Sommerfeld church , belonging to Engelsdorf since 1923

During the Second World War , the railway facilities and the site were heavily bombed. After the building permit had been refused for decades for ideological reasons, the church of St. Gertrud (Roman Catholic) was built in the eighties from an old barn or stable. The bell tower was not allowed to rise above the roof ridge, but was built several meters higher. After 1990 the new housing estates "Engelsgrund" and "Wiesengrund" were built in Engelsdorf. At the end of the nineties, the old train station was closed and the Engelsdorf train station relocated to the renewed Hans-Weigel bridge. In the course of the expansion of the railway line, the level crossing was replaced by an underpass for pedestrians and cyclists and the walls were designed by high school students.

On January 1, 1994, Althen and Kleinpösna were incorporated with Hirschfeld . On July 1, 1995, Baalsdorf was incorporated.

On January 1, 1999, the community of Engelsdorf was incorporated into Leipzig, contrary to the wishes of many citizens.

Federal road 6 ran parallel to the railway line in Sommerfeld , and in 1997 it was moved approx. 1 km to the north (Permoserstraße). A bypass (relief road between Hans-Weigel-Brücke and Mühlweg through the industrial site) has been planned for years.

School, high school, kindergarten

Engelsdorf has three day-care centers (St. Gertrud, Benjamin Blümchen and in the district of Sommerfeld ), a school and a grammar school.

Transport links

The S3 line of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland (Oschatz -) Wurzen - Leipzig - Schkeuditz - Halle as well as the regional express trains and regional trains of the RE 50 Leipzig - Dresden and RB 110 Leipzig - Grimma - Döbeln lines stop in Engelsdorf . The terminus of tram lines 3 and 7 and bus line 90 is near the train station, in the Sommerfeld district. The RB 113 Leipzig - Bad Lausick - Geithain line stops at Leipzig Werkstättenstraße station. Bus lines 72 (Leipzig Hbf - Mölkau - Engelsdorf - Paunsdorf), 73 (Leipzig Hbf - Baalsdorf - Sommerfeld (- Engelsdorf)) and 172 ((Borsdorf -) Sommerfeld - Engelsdorf - Baalsdorf - Liebertwolkwitz - Wachau) also go through Engelsdorf.

Memorials

Heating system of the former Reichsbahn repair shop in Engelsdorf near Leipzig

In the cemetery on Kirchweg a memorial stone commemorates Soviet prisoners of war as well as 50 women and men who were deported to Germany during the Second World War and were victims of forced labor in the Reichsbahn repair shop; as well as to the Nazi opponents Kurt Krah and Arthur Thiele, who were killed in concentration camps during the Nazi dictatorship .

Personalities

Attractions

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
  2. ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900
  3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1995
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christoph-arnold-schule.de

literature

  • Tino Hemmann: Engelsdorf stays! The story of a central German community . 4th edition. Self-published by Engelsdorfer Verlag , Engelsdorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-86901-099-1 .
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Engelsdorf. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 16.

Web links

Commons : Engelsdorf (Leipzig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files