History of the Leipzig tram network
The Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) operates one of the largest tram networks in Germany with the Leipzig tram. The history of the Leipzig tram network is presented in the form of tables that contain route openings, electrifications, re-routing, closures and operating routes . Contemporary street names are used in the tables if known. The current designations are added in (brackets).
Development of the rail network
Leipzig Horse Railway Company (LPE)
On April 20, 1871, the city of Leipzig granted Gabriel Graf Diodati and the Geneva banker Adolph Schaeck a concession for the construction of horse-drawn railways . Construction began in February 1872. Just six days after the routes were opened, on May 24, 1872, the company, facilities and the concession were acquired by the Leipzig Tramways Company Ltd., founded by Hutton Vignoles in London . accepted. In the German Empire , the railway continued to operate under the name LPE. The LPE was taken over on January 1, 1896 by the Great Leipzig Tram (GLSt).
The first construction phase (1872/73)
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 05/18/1872 | opening | Center ring : Roßplatz - Augustusplatz - Georgiring - train stations (main station) - Blücherplatz (Tröndlinring / Kurt-Schumacher-Straße) - Fleischerplatz (Tröndlin- / Goerdelerring) - Fruit market (Martin-Luther-Ring) - Königsplatz (Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz) - Roßplatz |
| opening | Augustusplatz, central lane - Johannisplatz - Dresdner Straße - Reudnitz , depot | |
| opening | Königsplatz - Peterssteinweg - Südplatz - Kochstraße - Connewitz , Kreuz - Connewitz, Eiskeller (near Koburg Bridge) | |
| 06/04/1872 | opening | Obstmarkt - Weststrasse (Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse; at that time the street merged with the Ring at Rudolphstrasse parallel to Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse ) - Plagwitzer Strasse (Karl-Heine-Strasse) - Plagwitz , "Felsenkeller" |
| 09/22/1872 | opening | "Felsenkeller" - Zschochersche Strasse - Plagwitz, "Drei Linden" (Zschochersche / Dreilindenstrasse) |
| December 01, 1872 | to operating route | Augustusplatz - train stations - school square - fruit market / Weststrasse |
| December 19, 1872 | Recommissioning | Augustusplatz - train stations - Blücherplatz |
| opening | Blücherplatz - Blücherstraße (Kurt-Schumacher-Straße) - Chausseehaus (Delitzscher / Georg-Schumann-Straße) - Eutritzsch, Markt - Gräfestraße - Eutritzsch, inn "Zum Helm" | |
| 01/20/1873 | opening | Yorckplatz (Wilhelm-Liebknecht-Platz) - Gohliser Strasse - Menckestrasse - Möckernsche Strasse - Gohlis , "Weintraube" (Möckernsche Strasse 5) |
Even when the track was being built, there were initial discrepancies with the gauge . The standard track of 1435 mm should be used, but the exact conversion of the incorrect value of 4 '8 "6"' leads to a dimension of 1438 mm. The superstructure with flat rails and long sleepers of the Loubat type proved to be unstable without a track holder and, after only a few years, resulted in the track widening to an average of 1460 mm due to the load during operation and the penetration of surface water. Because the management of the horse-drawn railway company found the expenses for the gauge regulation to be too high, the wheelsets were pressed to a gauge of 1,458 mm without informing the supervisory authorities. This created the special gauge that was only used in Leipzig, which was retained in the years that followed and which has prevented connections into the long-distance railway network to this day.
The second construction phase (1881-1891)
After the new means of transport had proven itself and became increasingly popular with the people of Leipzig, plans were made to connect other surrounding parts of the city to the rail network.
Beginning in 1881 and until 1886, the inadequate long sleeper superstructure was replaced by rolled Haarmann double rails with flat steel track holders that are still common today. From 1889, one-piece grooved rails were finally installed.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 1881 | opening | Südplatz - Connewitzer Chaussee (Karl-Liebknecht-Straße) - Connewitz, Kreuz |
| Shutdown | Südplatz - Kochstrasse - Connewitz, Kreuz | |
| 12/24/1881 | opening | Frankfurter / Leibnizstrasse (Jahnallee / Leibnizstrasse) - Waldplatz - Angerbrücke - Kuhturmstrasse (→) / Dreilindenstrasse (←) - Lindenauer Markt - Odermannstrasse - Lützner Strasse - Endersstrasse - Guts-Muths-Strasse (→) / Merseburger Strasse (←) - Plagwitz, Depot (near König-Albrecht-Brücke) |
| 04/01/1882 | opening | Brühl / Katharinenstraße - Schulplatz - Frankfurter / Leibnizstraße |
| 06/18/1882 | opening | Augustusplatz, middle lane - Goethestrasse - Brühl - Brühl / Katharinenstrasse |
| 07/22/1882 | opening | Plagwitz, "Felsenkeller" - Albertstrasse (Karl-Heine-Strasse) - Plagwitz, depot |
| to operating route | Plagwitz, "Felsenkeller" - Plagwitz, "Drei Linden" | |
| 08/22/1882 | opening | Railway stations - Goethestrasse / Brühl |
| opening | Augustusplatz / Goethestraße - Schillerstraße - Peterstor (Schiller- / Petersstraße) | |
| 10/24/1882 | Re-routing | Conversion of the Augustusplatz terminus , central lane to two instead of four tracks |
| 12/22/1882 | opening | Georgiring / Wintergartenstraße - Wintergartenstraße - Eisenbahn- / Kirchstraße (Eisenbahn- / Hermann-Liebmann-Straße) |
| 07/25/1883 | opening | Gohlis, "Weintraube" - Möckernsche Strasse - Gohlis, Depot (Möckernsche Strasse 37/41) |
| opening | Peterstor - Königsplatz | |
| 07.09.1883 | opening | Roßplatz - Kurprinzstraße (Grünewaldstraße) - Windmühlenstraße - Bavarian train station |
| 05/18/1884 | opening | Johannisplatz - East Square |
| 06/22/1884 | opening | Fruit market / Harkortstrasse - Harkortstrasse - Spießbrücke (Harkortstrasse / Telemannstrasse) |
| 07/13/1884 | opening | Spießbrücke - Pestalozzistraße (Telemannstraße) - Disc wood fairground |
| 07/18/1884 | Recommissioning | Centralhalle Dittrichring (theater) - Obstmarkt / Weststrasse |
| 08/01/1884 | to operating route | Spießbrücke - fairground (only operated during events) |
| 09/16/1884 | Recommissioning | Fleischerplatz (Tröndlin- / Goerdelerring) - Centralhalle Dittrichring |
| 1885 | Recommissioning | Blücherplatz - Fleischerplatz |
| ??. 12.1885 | opening | Ostplatz - Mühlstraße - Thonberg, Cecilienstraße |
| 1886 | opening | Eutritzsch, “Zum Helm” inn - Gräfestraße - Eutritzsch, depot |
| 05/14/1887 | opening | Eisenbahnstrasse / Kirchstrasse - Eisenbahnstrasse - Torgauer Platz |
| 1887 | opening | Reudnitz, Depot - Breite / Engelsdorfer Strasse (Breite / Zweinaundorfer Strasse) |
| 08/19/1888 | opening | Breite / Engelsdorfer Strasse - Anger-Crottendorf, "Albertgarten" (Zweinaundorfer / Herbartstrasse) |
| 10/28/1889 | opening | Wiesenstrasse (Gustav-Mahler-Strasse) - Promenadenstrasse (Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse, at that time the street ran straight to Wiesenstrasse) - Fleischerplatz |
| opening | Bayrischer Bahnhof - Bayrische Strasse (Arthur-Hoffmann-Strasse) - Kantstrasse - Schlachthof (MDR center) | |
| opening | Spießbrücke - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse (August-Bebel-Strasse) - Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kronprinzstrasse (August-Bebel- / Kurt-Eisner-Strasse) | |
| 05/05/1890 | opening | Fleischerplatz - Pfaffendorfer Strasse - Nordplatz |
| Re-routing | The straight line over the north square in the course of Michaelis- and Gohliser Strasse will be replaced by the bypass around the square that still exists today | |
| 09/08/1890 | opening | Thonberg, Hospital- / Mühlstraße (Prager / Mühlstraße) - Reitzenhainer Straße (Prager Straße) - Friedhofsweg |
| to operating route | Route in the Mühlstrasse | |
| 06/13/1891 | opening | Chausseehaus - Hallische Strasse (Georg-Schumann-Strasse) - Möckern, Kernstrasse |
Leipzig Electric Tram (LESt)
The second tram company in Leipzig, the LESt, was founded on April 3, 1893 and entered in the city's commercial register on May 7, 1895. The AEG acted as contractor of the new company. Since the LESt wagons were painted red, the company was popularly referred to as “Rote”, while the competition (LPE or GLSt from 1896) drove blue wagons, which earned them the name “Blue”. The LESt was granted the license to build and operate electric trams on February 28, 1895. After a short planning phase, construction began on June 11, 1895. The route network planning turned out to be difficult, as the horse-drawn railway company had already occupied most of the main roads and the promenade ring with its routes, especially near the city center. Due to the regulation that the LESt was only allowed to use the lines of the competition for a length of 400, later 500 meters, there was considerable parallel traffic and routes through narrow side streets that now seem nonsensical. As compensation, the city allowed the LESt to build a route through the city center within the Promenadenring, which LPE and GLSt were always denied with the exception of Schiller and Goethestrasse and the route through the Brühl. The LESt then built an east-west route through Grimmaische Strasse, Thomasgasse, Gottschedstrasse, Zentralstrasse and Elsterstrasse and a north-south route through Gerberstrasse, Hallisches Tor, Reichstrasse and Katharinenstrasse, Markt and Neumarkt to Peterstor.
Development of the licensed network (1896–1898)
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 05/20/1896 | opening | Mockau, Church - Berliner Strasse - Nordstrasse (→) / Gerberstrasse (←) - Katharinenstrasse (→) / Reichsstrasse (←) - Neumarkt - Königsplatz (east side) - Brüderstrasse |
| opening | Schönefeld , Löbauer Strasse - Volbedingstrasse - Berliner / Volbedingstrasse | |
| 06/02/1896 | opening | Brüderstraße - Nürnberger Straße - Bavarian train station |
| 06/03/1896 | opening | Königsplatz (east side) - Wächterstraße - Grassistraße - Beethovenstraße - Marschnerstraße - Sebastian-Bach-Straße - Klingerbrücke - Könneritzstraße - Schleußig , Oeserstraße |
| 06/05/1896 | opening | Gohlis, Platnerstraße - Rosental - Waldplatz - Elsterstraße - Zentralstraße - Thomaskirche - Markt - Augustusplatz (north side, past the entrance of the opera house) - Poststraße (today overbuilt) - Querstraße - Schützenstraße - Karlstraße (Chopinstraße) - Marienplatz |
| 06/22/1896 | opening | Schleußig, Oeserstraße - Antonienstraße - "Adler" - Hauptstraße (Dieskaustraße) - Großzschocher, Huttenstraße |
| 10/30/1896 | opening | Querstrasse / Poststrasse - Johannisplatz - Nürnberger Strasse - Nürnberger / Brüderstrasse |
| opening | Bayrischer Bahnhof - Albertstrasse (Riemannstrasse) - Mozartstrasse - Grassi- / Beethovenstrasse | |
| 08/05/1897 | opening | Albert- / Elisenstraße (Riemann- / Bernhard-Göring-Straße) - Elisenstraße - Elisen- / Arndtstraße |
| 10/20/1897 | opening | Marienplatz - Ranftsche Gasse - Kohlgartenstraße - Bergstraße - Kirchplatz (Berg- / Hermann-Liebmann-Straße) (a provisional track triangle was created here) |
| 11/14/1897? | opening | Kirchplatz - Kirchstrasse (Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse) - Schönefelder Brücke (southern ramp) (it may not have opened until January 10th, 1898) |
| December 8th, 1897 | opening | Johannisplatz - Täubchenweg - Riebeckstraße - Stötteritzer Straße - Stötteritz , Hofer Straße / city limits |
| December 21, 1897 | opening | Lindenthaler / Hallische Strasse (Georg-Schumann- / Lindenthaler Strasse) - Eisenacher Strasse (→) / Wahrner Strasse (Wolfener Strasse) (←) - Gohlis, Platnerstrasse |
| 05/15/1898 | opening | Stötteritz, city limits - Wasserturmstraße - Weißestraße - Arnoldstraße - Holzhäuser Straße - Stötteritz, depot (today's terminus) |
| 07/23/1898 | opening | Kirchplatz - Kirchstrasse (Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse) - Wurzner Strasse - Wurzner / Plaußiger Strasse |
| 08/20/1898 | opening | Stannebeinplatz - Schönefeld, Löbauer Strasse |
| opening | Berliner / Apelstrasse - Wittenberger / Heinickestrasse | |
| 08/30/1898 | opening | Bavarian train station - Windmühlenweg (Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße) - Johannisallee - Ostplatz - Oststraße (→) / Stötteritzer Straße (←) - Riebeckstraße |
| opening | Stötteritzer / Schönbachstrasse - Schönbach- / Reitzenhainer Strasse (Schönbach- / Prager Strasse) | |
| 1898 | opening | Wittenberger / Heinickestrasse - Eutritzsch, Markt - Delitzscher Strasse / Alte Dübener Landstrasse |
| 11/14/1898 | opening | Gohlis, barracks (Landsberger / Olbrichtstrasse) - Landsberger Strasse - Lindenthaler / Hallische Strasse |
Short extensions (1899-1917)
After the main LESt network was set up, there were only short extensions to various end lines and in the city center. After the competition had gotten the city's leaders too out of hand, efforts were made to unite the two societies during the First World War. On January 1, 1917, the time had come, the LESt was affiliated to the big competitor, the GLSt.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 11/19/1899 | opening | Gohlis, Stockstrasse - Eisenacher Strasse - Möckernsche Strasse - Kirschbergstrasse - Möckern, Gasthof "Zum Anker" (which still exists today) |
| 09/10/1900 | opening | Elisen- / Arndtstraße - Elisenstraße (Bernhard-Göring-Straße) - Elisen- / Scharnhorststraße |
| 06/12/1902 | opening | Riebeck- / Stötteritzer Straße - Riebeckstraße - Laboratory (Riebeck- / Prager Straße) |
| 07/14/1904 | opening | Elisen- / Scharnhorststraße - Elisen- / Hardenbergstraße |
| 10/21/1905 | opening | Wurzner / Plaußiger Straße - Paunsdorf, city limits (on the east wall of the Sellerhausen cemetery) |
| 12/15/1906 | opening | Elisenstrasse / Hardenbergstrasse - Elisenstrasse - Waisenhausstrasse (Arno-Nitzsche-Strasse) - Connewitz, Kreuz |
| 03/10/1910 | opening | together with the GLSt: Wendeschleife train stations / Richard-Wagner-Straße (southernmost of the four loop tracks belonged to the LESt) |
| 09/30/1910 | opening | Gohlis, Depot (today's terminus Landsberger Straße ) - Landsberger Straße - Gohlis, barracks (initially only as an operating route) |
| 11/10/1912 | opening | Waisenhausstraße - Zwenkauer Straße - Depot Connewitz / Hildebrandstraße |
| 03/01/1913 | opening | Windmühlenweg / Johannisallee - Windmühlenweg (Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße) - Sigismundstraße (a turning loop was created here roughly at today's loop Deutscher Platz ) |
| 05/01/1913 | opening | Querstrasse / Schützenstrasse - Hahnekamm - Brandenburger Strasse - Richard-Wagner-Strasse / main station |
| 06/01/1913 | opening | Paunsdorf, city limits - Paunsdorf, depot (initially only as an operating route) |
| 07/16/1913 | opening | Reitzenhainer / Schönbachstraße - Reitzenhainer Straße (Prager Straße) - Südfriedhof (coupling point on the south side of Reitzenhainer Straße) |
| 02/17/1914 | opening | Loop Sigismundstrasse (Deutscher Platz) - Reitzenhainer Strasse - Naunhofer Strasse (terminus in Naunhofer Strasse) |
| 10/31/1914 | opening | Eutritzsch, Delitzscher Strasse / Dübener Landstrasse - St. Georg Hospital (today's terminus) |
| 08/18/1916 | Re-routing | Between the forest road bridge and the police station (around the level of the tennis court) a separate track was built next to the road |
Great Leipzig tram (GLSt)
Due to the general development, the LPE also decided to convert its routes to electrical operation. For this purpose, on November 15, 1895, the Große Leipziger Straßenbahn AG was entered in the commercial register of the city of Leipzig. With effect from January 1, 1896, LPE and its contracts with Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG) and Bankhaus Becker & Co. were transferred to GLSt.
Electrification (1896–1897)
Since the competing company was already busy building extensive electric tram routes, the electrification of the existing horse-drawn tram routes now had to be pushed ahead in a hurry. The entire horse-drawn tram network was converted to overhead line operation within 18 months. Because of the greater mass of the electric railcars, practically the entire superstructure had to be converted from Haarmann to one-piece Phoenix grooved rails, but thanks to its better conditions, the GLSt managed to start electrical operation four weeks before the LESt. The last horse-drawn tram train ran on April 16, 1897. The relatively young horse-drawn tram cars (of the later types 7a, 7b and 7c) could still be used as sidecars after only minor adjustments to the brakes and lighting; they were only taken out of service between 1905 and 1909.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 04/18/1896 | electrification | Gohlis, Möckernsche Strasse depot - Nordplatz - train stations - Goethestrasse - Schillerstrasse - Königsplatz (Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz) - Connewitzer Chaussee (Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse) - Connewitz, Kreuz - Connewitz, Eiskeller (near Koburg Bridge) |
| 10/30/1896 | electrification | Plagwitz, Depot - Lindenauer Markt - Waldplatz - Blücherplatz - Georgiring - Augustusplatz - Roßplatz - Bayrischer Bahnhof |
| electrification | Fleischerplatz - Brühl - Brühl / Goethestrasse | |
| electrification | Augustusplatz - Johannisplatz - Hospitalstraße (Prager Straße) - Reitzenhainer Straße (Prager Straße) - Friedhofsweg | |
| 10/31/1896 | electrification | Plagwitz, depot - "Felsenkeller" - fruit market - Königsplatz - Roßplatz |
| electrification | Georgiring / Wintergartenstrasse - Eisenbahnstrasse - Torgauer Platz | |
| opening | Plagwitz train stations - Albertstraße (Karl-Heine-Straße) - Plagwitz, depot | |
| 03/02/1897 | electrification | Augustusplatz, central lane - Reudnitz - Anger-Crottendorf, "Albertgarten" |
| 03/03/1897 | electrification | Nordplatz - Fleischerplatz - Fruit Market - Spießbrücke - Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kronprinzstraße (August-Bebel- / Kurt-Eisner-Straße) |
| 03/04/1897 | electrification | Blücherplatz - Chausseehaus - Möckern, Kernstrasse |
| 03/05/1897 | electrification | Wiesenstrasse / Promenadenstrasse (Gustav-Mahler- / Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse) - Promenadenstrasse - Fleischerplatz |
| electrification | Bayrischer Bahnhof - Bayrische Strasse (Arthur-Hoffmann-Strasse) - slaughterhouse | |
| 04/17/1897 | electrification | Chausseehaus - Eutritzsch, Markt - Eutritzsch, depot Gräfestraße |
| 05/09/1897 | Electrification / recommissioning | Spit bridge - racetrack |
| 10/28/1897 | Electrification / recommissioning | Plagwitz, "Drei Linden" - "Felsenkeller" |
Extensive expansion of the route network (1897–1902)
Work was also carried out on new lines. Many parts of the city were still not connected to the Leipzig tram network.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 10/28/1897 | opening | “Felsenkeller” - Zschochersche Strasse - “Adler” - Windorfer Strasse - Kleinzschocher, Taborkirche |
| 11/13/1897 | opening | Albert- / Nonnenstraße (Karl-Heine- / Nonnenstraße) - Nonnenstraße - Weißenfelser Straße - Weißenfelser / Zschochersche Straße |
| Late 1897 | opening | Lützner- / Endersstraße - Lützner Straße - Lindenau, depot (today Lindenau bus station) (initially only as an operating route) |
| 06/01/1898 | opening | Reitzenhainer Straße / Friedhofsweg (Prager Straße / Friedhofsweg) - Friedhofsweg - Südfriedhof (An der Tabaksmühle) |
| 07/24/1898 | opening | Reudnitz, Depot - Wurzner Strasse - Torgauer Strasse - Torgauer Platz |
| 10/26/1898 | opening | Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kronprinzstraße (August-Bebel- / Kurt-Eisner-Straße) - Kronprinz- / Südstraße (Kurt-Eisner- / Karl-Liebknecht-Straße) |
| opening | Connewitz, Kreuz - Bornaische / Meusdorfer Strasse | |
| 1898 | opening | Gohlis, Möckernsche Strasse depot - Wiederitzscher Strasse - Wiederitzscher / Hallische Strasse |
| opening | Nordplatz - Roscherstraße - Roscher- / Eutritzscher Straße (operating route) | |
| 01/27/1899 | opening | Lindenauer Markt - Querstraße - Georg-Schwarz-Straße - Leutzsch, school |
| 04/14/1899 | opening | Leutzsch, school - Rathenaustraße - Leutzsch train station |
| 07/23/1899 | opening | Möckern, Kernstrasse - Hallische Strasse - Möckern, church |
| 11/30/1899 | opening | Bornaische / Meusdorfer Strasse - Lößnig, Bornaische / Blasbalgstrasse (Siegfriedstrasse) |
| December 6th, 1899 | opening | Lößnig, Blasbalgstraße (Siegfriedstraße) - Bornaische Straße - Dölitz , Leinestraße |
| 1900 | opening | Dölitz, Leinestraße - Dölitz, depot (initially only operating route) |
| December 20, 1900 | opening | Reitzenhainer Straße / Friedhofsweg - Reitzenhainer Straße (Prager Straße) - Probstheida, depot (today Busof Probstheida) (between Probstheida, inn (Prager / Russenstraße) and depot only operating route) |
| Recording Line bus traffic | Lützner / Endersstraße - Lindenau, depot | |
| 10/14/1901 | opening | Waldplatz - Westplatz |
| 11/22/1901 | to operating route | Spießbrücke - racetrack (only operated at racing events) |
| 06/09/1902 | opening | Schiller- / Universitätsstraße - Roßplatz |
| opening | Bayrische / Kronprinzstraße (Arthur-Hoffmann- / Kurt-Eisner-Straße) - Kronprinz- / Südstraße (Kurt-Eisner- / Karl-Liebknecht-Straße) |
Reversible loops accelerate operations (1908–1917)
After the GLSt had also implemented the network they had planned, they began to set up turning loops at important terminal points where space was available ( Leutzsch station, Richard-Wagner-Straße (together with LESt), Eutritzsch / Markt, Völkerschlachtdenkmal / Gletschersteinallee, Connewitz / Klemmstraße, Ludwig- / Bussestraße (Tauchaer Tor), Tabaksmühle ). A few short extensions to some of the end lines could also be built. In addition, scheduled services to the Dölitz depot were started on June 19, 1915, despite the war .
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 05.10.1911 | opening | Gohliser / Menckestraße - Lützowstraße - Gohlis-Nord, Virchow- / Gottschallstraße |
| 11/01/1913 | opening | Lindenau, Depot - Lützner Straße - Plautstraße - Lindenau, Plaut- / Demmeringstraße |
| 01/13/1914 | opening | Torgauer Platz - Eisenbahnstraße - Eisenbahn- / Portitzer Straße (a four-track transfer system was built here) |
| 07/09/1914 | opening | Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kronprinzstraße - Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße (August-Bebel- / Richard-Lehmann-Straße) |
| 01/01/1915 | opening | Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße - Brand- / Simildenstraße (Depot Connewitz / Brandstraße incl. Operating route in Simildenstraße) |
| 06/19/1915 | Recording Line bus traffic | Dölitz, Leinestrasse - Dölitz depot |
Network cleanup (1917-1923)
After the takeover of LESt, work began on simplifying the route network. Many parallel lines, which had now become pointless, were shut down, but work was also carried out on short new lines to connect the two networks more effectively.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 02/07/1917 | to operating route | Enders- / Lützner Strasse - Guts-Muths-Strasse (→) / Merseburger Strasse (←) - Albertstrasse |
| March 31, 1917 | to operating route | Kronprinz- / Bayrische Strasse (Kurt-Eisner- / Arthur-Hoffmann-Strasse) - Kronprinz- / Südstrasse (Kurt-Eisner- / Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse) |
| 04/01/1917 | Shutdown | Schiller- / Universitätsstraße - Roßplatz |
| to operating route | Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kronprinzstrasse (August-Bebel- / Kurt-Eisner-Strasse) - Brandstrasse | |
| 09/20/1917 | Re-routing | Between the police station (roughly at the level of the tennis court) and the Gohlis weir bridge, a separate track was built next to Waldstrasse |
| 11/19/1917 | to operating route | Berliner / Apelstrasse - Eutritzscher Markt |
| Shutdown | Elisen- / Waisenhausstraße (Bernhard-Göring- / Arno-Nitzsche-Straße) - Connewitz, Kreuz | |
| to operating route | Albert- / Elisenstraße (Riemann- / Bernhard-Göring-Straße) - Elisenstraße - Waisenhausstraße - Zwenkauer Straße - Connewitz, Hildebrandstraße depot | |
| to operating route | Eutritzsch, Markt - Eutritzsch, Gräfestraße depot | |
| 01/02/1918 | Recording Line bus traffic | Paunsdorf, city limits - Paunsdorf, depot |
| Shutdown | Gohlis, Stock- / Eisenacher Strasse - Eisenacher Strasse - Kirschbergstrasse - Möckern, Gasthof "Zum Anker" | |
| 01/10/1918 | to operating route | Gohlis, Tauchaer Weg (Max-Liebermann-Strasse) - Gohlis, barracks |
| 05/11/1918 | Shutdown | "Adler" - Windorfer Straße - Kleinzschocher, Taborkirche |
| 1918 | opening | Wendeschleife Stötteritz, Papiermühlstrasse (bypassing the city block) |
| Shutdown | Stötteritzer / Schönbachstrasse - Schönbach- / Reitzenhainer Strasse (Schönbach- / Prager Strasse) | |
| 10/01/1919 | to operating route | Wurzner / Torgauer Straße - Torgauer Platz |
| Shutdown | Augustusplatz, north side - Poststraße - Post- / Querstraße | |
| around 1920 | opening | Eisenbahnstrasse / Annenstrasse - Wurzner / Annenstrasse |
| 04/01/1920 | Shutdown | Königsplatz / east side - Brüderstraße - Nürnberger / Brüderstraße |
| 06/10/1920 | Shutdown | Kirchplatz (Hermann-Liebmann- / Bergstraße) - Bergstraße - Kohlgartenstraße - Marienplatz - Schützenstraße - Schützen- / Querstraße |
| to operating route | Kirchstrasse / Eisenbahnstrasse - Kirchstrasse (Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse) - Kirchstrasse / Wurzner Strasse | |
| to operating route | Central station - Brandenburger Straße - Hahnenkamm - Querstraße - Johannisplatz | |
| Shutdown | Albert- / Elisenstraße - Elisenstraße - Waisenhausstraße, as well as the landward track in Zwenkauer Straße to the depot | |
| 05/11/1922 | opening | Tauchaer / Kohlgartenstrasse (Friedrich-List-Platz) - Kohlgartenstrasse - Reudnitz, Dresdner / Kohlgartenstrasse (using the LESt tracks still on Kohlgartenstrasse between Ranftscher Gasse and Bergstrasse) |
| December 17, 1922 | Shutdown | Albert- / Nonnenstrasse - Nonnenstrasse - Weißenfelser Strasse - Weißenfelser / Zschochersche Strasse |
| January 17, 1923 | Shutdown | Windmühlenweg / Johannisallee - Ostplatz - Stötteritzer Strasse (→) / Oststrasse (←) - Riebeckstrasse |
| 11/08/1923 | Recording Line bus traffic | Gohlis, Tauchaer Weg - Gohlis, Landsberger Strasse depot |
Between inflation and World War II (1924–1938)
After the network had been thinned to the necessary extent, the GLSt was now working again on new lines and additional loops ( Möckern / Huygensstraße, Connewitz / Kreuz, Möckern / Depot, Kleinzschocher / Depot, Wahren / Rathaus, Fortuna Stadium, Schönefeld / Volbedingstraße, Stötteritz / Holzhäuser Strasse ). Until the company was reorganized into the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) on July 29, 1938, the last larger parts of the city could be connected to the tram network. The first trolleybus route in Leipzig went into operation on the same day .
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Shutdown | Schönefeld, terminus Volbedingstraße - Mockauer / Volbedingstraße (including dismantling of the single-track line) |
| 02/26/1925 | Re-routing | Reconstruction of Blücherplatz (Tröndlinring / Kurt-Schumacher-Straße) |
| 08/27/1925 | Re-routing | Richard-Wagner-Platz layout (old turning loop repealed, instead double-track line to Hallischer Tor with terminus) |
| 10/21/1925 | Recommissioning | Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kronprinzstraße (August-Bebel- / Kurt-Eisner-Straße) - Brandstraße, depot |
| 03/27/1926 | Recommissioning | Eutritzsch, Markt - Berliner / Apelstrasse |
| 06/26/1926 | opening | Philipp-Rosenthal- / Linnéstraße - wholesale market hall (at the animal clinics) |
| 07/15/1926 | opening | St. Georg Hospital - Wiederitzsch, Seehausener Strasse |
| 04/14/1927 | opening | Paunsdorf, depot - Hans-Weigel-Straße - Engelsdorf, church (Gleisdreieck) |
| 07/15/1927 | opening | Torgauer Platz - Taucha, An der Bürgerruhe |
| 09/11/1927 | opening | Möckernsche / Wiederitzscher Strasse - Kirschbergstrasse - Kernstrasse - Kernstrasse / Hallische Strasse (only in this direction, used as a turning loop) |
| 03/01/1928 | Recommissioning | Kirchstrasse / Eisenbahnstrasse - Kirchstrasse (Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse) - Kirchstrasse / Wurzner Strasse |
| 04/01/1928 | opening | Dölitz, Depot - Markkleeberg-Ost, Schillerplatz |
| 09/02/1928 | opening | Harkortstrasse, Reich Administrative Court - Simsonplatz - Mozartstrasse |
| Shutdown | Grassi- / Beethovenstraße - Wächterstraße - Königsplatz (east side) | |
| 12/02/1928 | opening | "Adler" - Antonienstraße - Diezmannstraße - Schönauer Weg - Herrmann-Meyer-Straße (Gleisdreieck) |
| December 16, 1928 | opening | Probstheida, Depot - Meusdorf (intermediate loop) - Liebertwolkwitz, Störmthaler Straße (loop) |
| opening | Anger-Crottendorf, Herbartstraße - Anger-Crottendorf, Ostfriedhof (loop) | |
| 03/02/1929 | opening | Kaiserin-Augusta- / Südstraße (Richard-Lehmann- / Karl-Liebknecht-Straße) - Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße - Kaiserin-Augusta- / Zwickauer Straße (initially only for trade fair events) |
| opening | Bayrische / Kantstrasse - Bayrische Strasse (Arthur-Hoffmann-Strasse) - Bayrische / Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse (Arthur-Hoffmann- / Richard-Lehmann-Strasse) | |
| 07/13/1929 | Re-routing | Reconstruction of the facilities on the main station forecourt |
| 04/01/1930 | opening | At the Tabaksmühle - Kaiserin-Augusta- / Zwickauer Straße (Richard-Lehmann- / Zwickauer Straße) |
| Recording Line bus traffic | Kaiserin-Augusta- / Südstraße - Kaiserin-Augusta- / Zwickauer Straße | |
| 04/15/1931 | opening | Mockau, Church - Thekla (loop) |
| 07/15/1931 | opening | Zwickauer / Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße - Temporary wooden bridge over the railway - At the Märchenwiese (Marienbrunn) |
| 06/04/1934 | opening | Großzschocher, Dieskau- / Huttenstraße - Großzschocher, Gerhard-Ellrodt-Straße (loop) |
| 04/07/1935 | Shutdown | Kant- / Bayrische Straße (Kant- / Arthur-Hoffmann-Straße) - slaughterhouse (MDR center) |
| 05/30/1935 | opening | Großzschocher - Knautkleeberg |
| December 15, 1936 | opening | Yorckplatz (Wilhelm-Liebknecht-Platz) - Yorckstrasse (Erich-Weinert-Strasse) - Yorck- / Berliner Strasse |
| to operating route | Berliner / Yorckstrasse (Berliner / Erich-Weinert-Strasse) - Nordstrasse (→) / Gerberstrasse (←) - Katharinenstrasse (→) / Reichsstrasse (←) - Neumarkt - Königsplatz |
Leipziger Außenbahn AG (LAAG)
Leipziger Außenbahn AG was founded on February 6, 1900. Its aim was to connect larger neighboring towns with the city of Leipzig. The company was run by the GLSt from the start, but otherwise the company was independent. The railway to Schkeuditz was licensed as a small railway from Stahmeln according to the Prussian Small Railway Act.
Even after the founding of the LVB, the LAAG retained its independence. Only on July 1, 1946, the management of the railway was handed over to the LVB. Until October 1, 1951, however, the company still officially owned the railway lines. Only on this day was the LAAG completely taken over by the VEB (K) Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Leipzig (LVB) .
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| December 21, 1900 | opening | Möckern, Church - Hallische Strasse - Wahren, Linkelstrasse |
| 05/16/1902 | opening | Connewitz, Eiskeller (near Koburger Brücke) - Koburger Straße - Oetzsch train station (today "Bhf. Markkleeberg") - Ring - Gautzsch (today "Markkleeberg-West"), inn "Weißer Stern" (Koburger / August-Bebel-Straße) |
| 06/09/1905 | opening | Wahren, Linkelstrasse - Stahmeln - Lützschena, inn |
| 05/17/1907 | opening | Leutzsch, Town Hall - Gundorf (today "Böhlitz-Ehrenberg") |
| 10/27/1910 | opening | Lützschena, Gasthof - Schkeuditz, depot |
Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB)
The Second World War and its consequences (1938–1948)
After the LVB was founded, more emphasis was placed on the trolleybus program. New loops were created on the Adler (through Limburger and Wachsmuthstrasse) and on Torgauer / Bautzner Strasse . The route network was hardly expanded until the end of the war. On the contrary, some lines were destroyed due to the effects of the war and were not rebuilt after the war. Other sections were brought back into operation for a short time, but then had to be dismantled in order to recover material.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| Late 1939 | opening | Diezmannstrasse - Kurt-Kresse-Strasse - Hermann-Meyer-Strasse |
| Late 1939 | Shutdown | Diezmannstrasse - Schönauer Weg - Hermann-Meyer-Strasse |
| 1941 | Shutdown | Strbf. Connewitz, Zwenkauer Strasse - Zwenkauer Strasse - Waisenhausstrasse (city-facing track) |
| Summer 1942 | opening | Schönefeld, Volbedingstraße - Mockauer / Volbedingstraße (initially only as an operating route) |
| December 04, 1943 | Shutdown | Berliner / Yorckstrasse (Berliner / Erich-Weinert-Strasse) - Nordstrasse (→) / Gerberstrasse (←) - Blücherplatz |
| Shutdown | Bavarian train station - Albertstrasse (Riemannstrasse) - Petrikirche | |
| 02/27/1945 | Shutdown | Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Kronprinzstraße (August-Bebel- / Kurt-Eisner-Straße) - Brandstraße, depot |
| 10/01/1946 | to operating route | Harkortstrasse / former Reichsgericht - Simsonplatz - Mozartstrasse |
| to operating route | Marschner- / Plagwitzer-Straße (Marschner- / Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße) - Beethovenstraße - Mozartstraße - Albertstraße - Petrikirche | |
| Late 1946 | Shutdown | Harkortstrasse / former Reichsgericht - Simsonplatz - Mozartstrasse |
| Shutdown | Marschner- / Plagwitzer-Straße (Marschner- / Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße) - Beethovenstraße - Mozartstraße - Albertstraße - Petrikirche | |
| 08/04/1947 | to operating route | Philipp-Rosenthal- / Semmelweisstraße - Großmarkthalle (at the animal clinics) (only freight traffic) |
| 11/01/1948 | Shutdown | Johannisplatz - Täubchenweg - Reudnitz depot |
Restructuring and new terminal systems (1949–1961)
Due to the new political situation, the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe was also restructured. On March 22, 1949, they were initially incorporated into the municipal business enterprise (KWU) Leipzig. From April 1, 1951, the company was independent again and now traded under the name VEB (K) Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Leipzig (LVB) . In the track network, some operating and connecting lines were closed, but on the other hand many new track triangles ( Knautkleeberg, Virchow- / Gottschallstraße, Großmarkthalle, Wiederitzsch, Johannisplatz, Emmausstraße, Böhlitz-Ehrenberg ) and turning loops ( Markkleeberg-Mitte / Parkstraße, Märchenwiese, Plaut- / Demmeringstraße , Zentralstadion / Feuerbachstraße, Mockau / Post, Schkeuditz / Depot, Plagwitz station, Markkleeberg-West ). Since March 1st, 1951, thirty tram lines have operated outside the trade fair, all line numbers between 1 and 30 were occupied. However, line 30 in particular was relocated several times.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 03/01/1949 | Shutdown | Ernst-Thälmann-Straße (today again Eisenbahnstraße) / Annenstraße - Ernst-Thälmann- / Portitzer Straße (the system can still be seen in the pavement today) (ex Line 2) |
| 07/01/1950 | Shutdown | Eutritzsch, Markt - Gräfestraße - Eutritzsch, depot (ex line 21) |
| 11/01/1950 | Shutdown | Main station - Brandenburger Straße - Hahnekamm - Querstraße - Johannisplatz - Nürnberger Straße - Bavarian train station (was operating line) |
| Shutdown | Wendeschleife Torgauer / Bautzner Straße (formerly the end of the rush hour to HASAG , the company has been dismantled since the end of the war) | |
| 04/13/1951 | Shutdown | Waldplatz - Elsterstraße - Thomaskirche - Markt - Karl-Marx-Platz (Augustusplatz) (ex lines 6, 7) |
| Fall 1951 | Shutdown | Turning loop at the Fortuna Stadium |
| Late 1951 | Shutdown | Blücherplatz - Katharinenstraße (→) / Reichsstraße (←) - Neumarkt - Königsplatz (the connection from Richard-Wagner-Straße to the Ring is retained) (was the operating route) |
| 1955 | Shutdown | Harkort- / Pestalozzistraße (Harkort- / Telemannstraße) - racetrack (was operating route) |
| 09/01/1956 | Re-routing | Widening and laying on its own track on the Georgiring |
| December 01, 1958 | Shutdown | Coupling end point Prager Straße / Südfriedhof (so-called "Schlippe") (ex line 29) |
| 07/31/1959 | Re-routing | own track between Roßplatz and Bavarian train station |
| 1959 | Shutdown | Terminal Connewitz, Eiskeller (was operating route) |
| 06/15/1960 | Recommissioning | Lützner / Endersstraße - Guts-Muths-Straße (→) / Merseburger Straße (←) - Karl-Heine-Straße (due to the construction of a new bridge and the closure of Karl-Heine-Straße) (for diversion lines 2, 23) |
| 02/11/1961 | Re-routing | Käthe-Kollwitz- / Elsterstraße - Westplatz (previous straight line tour of Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße was abandoned) |
| 02/14/1961 | Shutdown | Markkleeberg-West - Gasthof "Weißer Stern" (ex Line 28 due to construction of the turning loop) |
| 05/18/1961 | opening | Gohlis-Nord, Gottschallstraße - Gohlis-Nord, Virchowstraße (loop) (with lines 9, 20, 24) |
| December 15, 1961 | to operating route | Lützner / Endersstraße - Guts-Muths-Straße (→) / Merseburger Straße (←) - Karl-Heine-Straße (ex lines 2, 23) |
Reconstruction of the facilities in the center (1964–1978)
The facilities around the city center, which were completely overloaded with traffic, urgently needed to be expanded and modernized. The Tröndlinring was extremely widened and a four-track system was built in place of the previously extremely cramped bus stop at Friedrich-Engels-Platz (Goerdelerring) on the site of the Old Theater , which was destroyed by bombs on December 4, 1943 during the Second World War . With the commissioning of this, the route through the Brühl was omitted . Lines have also been modernized in other places. In addition, the external routes to Liebertwolkwitz and Engelsdorf, which were viewed as unprofitable, fell victim to the red pen and were converted to bus operation. The shutdowns that were not wanted by LVB were achieved by reducing the available conversion capacities.
With the closure of the temporary wooden bridge over the Leipzig Hbf – Connewitz and Engelsdorf – Connewitz railway between Richard-Lehmann- and Arno-Nitzsche-Straße on June 11, 1967, line 26 was discontinued because its route completely coincided with that of line 16 . The number of thirty lines in regular operation was never reached again.
In connection with the demolition of the university building on Karl-Marx-Platz, the downtown tram route through Schillerstraße had to be shut down despite the highest traffic value, although it would have been possible to re-establish it. The systems between Universitätstrasse and Petersstrasse were retained for the time being; the last time they were used as a diversion route during the construction of the pedestrian tunnel at the Roßplatz stop and then completely dismantled. On January 1st, 1970 the company was renamed VEB Kombinat Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Leipzig (LVB) . 1972 the centenary of the Leipzig tram was celebrated. The remaining tracks in Richard-Wagner-Straße were used for the last time for a vehicle exhibition, while a replica of the horse-drawn tram 95, made from a salt sidecar, operated on the separated southern track in Brühl.
In the course of the introduction of the Tatra multiple unit and trailer car, further lines of the previous branching network were discontinued. At the same time, the remaining lines were strengthened and the power supply expanded.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 06/20/1964 | Shutdown | Friedrich-Engels-Platz - Brühl - Brühl / Goethestraße (ex lines 3, 4, 6, 7, 30) |
| Re-routing | Friedrich-Engels-Platz stop (tracks 1 and 3) | |
| 08/20/1964 | Re-routing | Friedrich-Engels-Platz stop (tracks 2 and 4) |
| opening | Friedrich-Ebert- / Moritzstraße - Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße - New Town Hall | |
| Shutdown | old Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse between Moritzstrasse and Martin-Luther-Ring | |
| 01/01/1965 | Shutdown | Philipp-Rosenthal- / Semmelweisstraße - Großmarkthalle (was operating route) |
| 08/30/1965 | Re-routing | own track structure Augustusplatz - Johannisplatz |
| 1966 | Shutdown | own track body next to the cemetery path |
| 07/11/1967 | Recommissioning | Kurt-Eisner- / Arthur-Hoffmann-Straße - Kurt-Eisner- / Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (diversion line 16) |
| opening | Arthur-Hoffmann- / Richard-Lehmann-Straße - Wiedebachplatz (with lines 16, 22) | |
| 07/28/1967 | Shutdown | Richard-Lehmann- / Zwickauer Straße - Zwickauer / Arno-Nitzsche-Straße (Gleisdreieck Richard-Lehmann- / Zwickauer Straße remains) (ex line 22 (diversion)) |
| 08/04/1967 | to operating route | Kurt-Eisner- / Arthur-Hoffmann-Strasse - Kurt-Eisner- / Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse (ex line 16) |
| opening | Wiedebachplatz - Arno-Nitzsche- / Zwickauer Straße (with line 16) | |
| 10/03/1967 | Shutdown | Lützner / Endersstraße - Guts-Muths-Straße (→) / Merseburger Straße (←) - Karl-Heine-Straße (was operating route) |
| 1967 | Re-routing | Crossing area Richard-Wagner-Straße / Tröndlinring / Gerberstraße |
| 05/25/1968 | Shutdown | Augustusplatz - Schillerstraße - Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (ex lines 3, 7, 10, 11, 28) |
| 07/15/1968 | Cessation of operations | Adler - Hermann-Meyer-Straße (ex lines 1, 9), because of the new construction of the Antonienbrücke |
| 06/01/1969 | opening | Loop Sellerhausen, Emmausstraße (with line 3, was previously a triangle of tracks that was not used in line operations) |
| Spring 1970 | Shutdown | Gleisdreieck Schönefeld, Dimpfelstraße (north of the Stannebeinplatz intersection) (was operating line) |
| December 15, 1970 | reopening | Adler - Hermann-Meyer-Straße (with line 1) |
| 06/28/1971 | Shutdown | Meusdorf - Liebertwolkwitz (ex line 15) |
| 07/10/1971 | Shutdown | Richard-Wagner-Straße west of the terminal system |
| 07/16/1971 | opening | Turning loop main station / west side (with lines 10, 20, 28) |
| 08/27/1971 | Re-routing | Friedrich-Engels-Platz - main train station |
| 03/23/1972 | Shutdown | Kurt-Eisner- / Arthur-Hoffmann-Strasse - Kurt-Eisner- / Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse (was operating route) |
| 08/22/1973 | Re-routing | Own railway body Antonienstraße - Diezmannstraße - Kurt-Kresse-Straße (with a long track loop at the crossing Antonien- / Diezmannstraße, which was only closed on October 13, 1979) |
| 04/19/1974 | Re-routing | Central station / Ostknoten (Georgiring / Wintergartenstraße) |
| May 24, 1974 | Re-routing | Crossing main station / Goethestrasse |
| 09/12/1974 | Shutdown | Loop Exhibition Grounds / Deutscher Platz ("Sigismund Loop") |
| October 01, 1974 | Shutdown | Paunsdorf, Depot - Sommerfeld - Engelsdorf, Church (ex Line 2) |
| December 23, 1974 | opening | At the Märchenwiese - Lößnig (with line 16) |
| 03/11/1975 | Re-routing | Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz - Roßplatz |
| 11/01/1976 | opening | Wendeschleife Torgauer / Bautzner Straße (with line 33) |
| 01/28/1978 | Re-routing | Reconstruction of the Thekla loop |
Development of the new building areas (1979–1990)
From 1979 a new task awaited the LVB traffic planner. In the west and east of the city, huge prefabricated housing estates were built that had to be connected to the tram network. After the socio-political changes in the GDR, on July 1, 1990 the LVB became the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) AG i. A. converted.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| 04/05/1979 | opening | Hermann-Meyer-Straße - Ratzelstraße - Grünau-Süd (with line 1) |
| 09/01/1980 | Re-routing | Koburg Bridge |
| 29.09.1980 | opening | Loop Deutscher Platz (with line 12) |
| 09/02/1982 | opening | Lützner / Plautstraße - Lützner Straße - Schönauer Ring - Grünau-Nord (with line 15) |
| 10/31/1983 | opening | Lützner Straße / Schönauer Ring - Lützner / Plovdiver Straße (provisional track triangle) (with lines 12, 33) |
| 08/31/1984 | Re-routing | own railway body Lenin- / Schönbachstraße (Prager / Schönbachstraße) - sand pit |
| 09/30/1984 | opening | Lützner / Plovdiver Straße - Miltitz (with lines 12, 33) |
| 11/30/1985 | opening | Grünau-Süd - Lausen (with line 8) |
| 08/23/1986 | Re-routing | own track body Antonien- / Könneritzstraße - Antonienstraße / Erich-Zeigner-Allee |
| 05/21/1987 | to operating route | Lützner / Plautstraße - Loop Plaut- / Demmeringstraße (ex line 25) |
| 12/24/1987 | opening | Paunsdorf, Depot - Am Vorwerk (provisional stump end point) (with pendulum line 6P) |
| 11/25/1988 | opening | Am Vorwerk - Ahornstraße (provisional stump end point) (with line 6P) |
| 03/10/1989 | opening | Wendeschleife Böhlitz-Ehrenberg (with the abandonment of the previously used track triangle in Leipziger and Burghausener Strasse) |
| 11/17/1989 | opening | Ahornstraße - Paunsdorf-Nord (with line 6) |
| 12/10/1989 | Re-routing | Gleisdreieck Roßplatz |
The LVB in reunified Germany (from 1990)
The most important task of the new stock corporation, which was converted into a GmbH on March 16, 1993, was the renewal of the rolling stock and the rail network. After extensive expansion plans at the beginning, the importance of the tram in urban transport policy quickly fell as a result of the onset of mass motorization, accompanied by a drastic decrease in passenger numbers. In the period from 1997 to 2015, this was associated with numerous shutdowns of tram routes and the suspension of regular services on an unprecedented scale in Germany for this time, totaling around 15 km in length, with only a few new routes being built. The connection between Philipp-Rosenthal-Strasse and Arno-Nitzsche-Strasse through the later Zwickauer Strasse (in the middle section previously Dr.-Margarethe-Blank-Strasse) including a new bridge over the railway lines Leipzig Hbf – Connewitz and Engelsdorf was built –Connewitz in place of the temporary wooden bridge that was demolished in 1982. Because a concrete pedestrian bridge had been built there in 1982 and had to be removed, the new construction lasted from 1997 to May 2001. The entire length of the route, with the exception of the crossings, was equipped with deep grass tracks. The new line from Wiederitzsch to the new exhibition center was built in a comparable design . With the argument that the contact line systems would impair the effect of the architecture, the tram route ends three hundred meters in front of the main entrance.
On May 27, 2001, the route network was reorganized and converted to a radial network. The routes in Hermann-Liebmann- and Richard-Lehmann-Straße in the train of the former line 22, which had been converted to bus operation, should actually be kept operational until the S-Bahn operation between the main station and Stötteritz in the train of the construction of the city tunnel , in order to be able to use the Osttangente by tram trains again to compensate. However, the catenary and connection points were removed after a relatively short time. The tram-compliant expansion of important sections of the route, which has been carried out since 1990, with the expansion of stops suitable for the handicapped and partially independent track structures, is offset by an increasing deterioration in the infrastructure, so that the route network is now characterized by a large number of slow-speed routes due to the condition.
The last cessation of operations so far concerned the line from Connewitzer Kreuz to Markkleeberg-West at the end of November 2015, officially as a result of the increased frequency of the S-Bahn. With this, the last of the once numerous crossings between road and rail in Leipzig disappeared and at the same time the only one where two lines electrified with different power systems crossed.
| date | Type of Change | route |
|---|---|---|
| December 18, 1990 | Re-routing | The Dölitz turning loop no longer leads through the depot |
| 05/27/1992 | Re-routing | Crossing Waldplatz |
| 12/02/1992 | Re-routing | Crossing Georgiring / Wintergartenstrasse |
| 01/21/1993 | Shutdown | Wendeschleife Connewitz, Hildebrandstraße (only officially on March 22, 1993) |
| 07/26/1993 | Re-routing | Loop Gohlis-Nord, Virchowstrasse |
| 10/18/1993 | Re-routing | own track body (or separation of the routes for trains and cars) Goerdelerring - New Town Hall |
| 01/26/1994 | Re-routing | Johannisplatz - Prager / Riebeckstrasse |
| 05/09/1994 | Shutdown | Wendeschleife Wodanstraße / Fregestift |
| 05/29/1994 | opening | Paunsdorf-Nord - Sommerfeld (with line 6) |
| 06/06/1994 | Re-routing | Gleisdreieck Eutritzscher / Michaelisstraße |
| 02/20/1995 | Shutdown | Nordplatz - Roscherstraße - Eutritzscher / Roscherstraße (was operating route) |
| 05/28/1995 | Re-routing | own railway body Erich-Weinert-Platz (Wilhelm-Liebknecht-Platz) - Chausseehaus |
| 05/29/1995 | opening | Portitzer Allee - Paunsdorf-Nord (with line 3) |
| 12/02/1995 | Re-routing | own track body Chausseehaus - Eutritzsch, market |
| Late 1995 | Re-routing | own railway body Eutritzsch, Markt - Hospital St. Georg |
| March 16, 1996 | Re-routing | Own railway body St. Georg Hospital - Dachauer Straße |
| 04/12/1996 | opening | Wiederitzsch - Neue Messe (exhibition grounds) (with lines 16, 21) |
| 08/29/1997 | Shutdown | Breite Straße - Anger-Crottendorf (ex line 2) |
| to operating route | Friedrich-List-Platz - Kohlgartenstraße - Reudnitz, Koehlerstraße (ex Line 2) | |
| 05/06/1998 | Shutdown | Strbf. Reudnitz - Täubchenweg / Breite Straße (was operating route) |
| 08/01/1999 | opening | Deutsche Bücherei - Semmelweisstraße - Zwickauer Straße - Zwickauer / Arno-Nitzsche-Straße (initially only as an operating route) |
| 10/09/1999 | Shutdown | New Town Hall - Harkortstrasse - August-Bebel-Strasse - Kurt-Eisner-Strasse - Kurt-Eisner- / Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse (ex Line 24) |
| 08/01/2000 | Shutdown | Georg-Schumann- / Wiederitzscher Straße - Wiederitzscher Straße - Möckernsche Straße - Stock- / Möckernsche Straße (was operating route) |
| 08/20/2000 | Recording Line bus traffic | Deutsche Bücherei - Semmelweisstraße - Zwickauer Straße - Zwickauer / Arno-Nitzsche-Straße (with line 2) |
| December 20, 2000 | Re-routing | Berlin Bridge - Mockauer / Volbedingstrasse |
| 05/27/2001 | Shutdown | Arthur-Hoffmann- / Richard-Lehmann-Straße - Arthur-Hoffmann- / Arno-Nitzsche-Straße (ex lines 5, 16) |
| to operating route | Hermann-Liebmann- / Eisenbahnstraße - Wurzner / Hermann-Liebmann-Straße (ex line 22) | |
| to operating route | Prager / Naunhofer Straße - Richard-Lehmann- / Arthur-Hoffmann-Straße (ex line 22) | |
| to operating route | Leutzsch town hall - Leutzsch station (ex line 27) | |
| 02/03/2003 | opening | Gleisdreieck Stannebeinplatz (initially due to construction work on the Hermann Liebmann Bridge over the Dresden Railway, but the Gleisdreieck will remain) |
| Shutdown | Hermann-Liebmann- / Eisenbahnstraße - Wurzner / Hermann-Liebmann-Straße (was operating line) | |
| 08/24/2003 | to operating route | Schönauer Ring - Grünau-Nord (discontinuation of line 13) |
| 06/27/2004 | Re-routing | Friedrich-List-Platz - Eisenbahnstraße - Hermann-Liebmann-Straße - Stannebeinplatz |
| 12/01/2004 | Re-routing | Eisenbahn- / Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse - Torgauer Platz |
| 04/11/2005 | Shutdown | Prager / Naunhofer Straße - Richard-Lehmann- / Zwickauer Straße (was operating route) |
| 07/16/2005 | Re-routing | Stop system Johannisplatz / Prager Straße |
| 08/29/2005 | Re-routing | Stop system Johannisplatz / Dresdner Straße |
| 10/17/2005 | opening | Rabensteinplatz loop (for line 12) |
| 12/23/2005 | Re-routing | Central station / Goethestrasse junction |
| 01/01/2006 | to operating route | Portitzer Allee - Paunsdorf-Nord (discontinuation of line 18) |
| 02/20/2006 | Re-routing | Goerdelerring - Waldplatz - Sportforum (with tunneling under the Jahnallee / Marschnerstraße junction in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup ) |
| 04/02/2006 | Recording Line bus traffic | Portitzer Allee - Paunsdorf-Nord (with line 3 or 3E) |
| 12/14/2008 | to operating route | Apelstraße - Wittenberger Straße - Eutritzscher Zentrum (shortened line 14) |
| 10/10/2010 | Recording Line bus traffic | Schönauer Ring - Grünau-Nord (shortened line 8) |
| 09/03/2012 | Re-routing | Lützner / Odermannstrasse - Lützner / Henriettenstrasse |
| 09/03/2012 | Re-routing | Crossing Lützner / Plautstraße (installation of the Gleisdreieck) |
| 11/25/2014 | Re-routing | Lützner / Henriettenstrasse - Lützner / Plautstrasse relocated to its own track body with turf track |
| 11/28/2015 | Shutdown | Connewitz, Kreuz - Koburger Straße - Markkleeberg-West (shortened line 9) |
Line network
The route network was subject to frequent changes. Three situations are presented here: 1914 (still with three operating companies), 1939 and 2001. The current route network can be viewed in the article Tram Leipzig .
Line network before the First World War
On August 1, 1914, right at the beginning of the First World War, the three Leipzig tram companies Leipziger Elektro Straßenbahn (LESt), Große Leipziger Straßenbahn (GLSt) and Leipziger Außenbahn AG (LAAG) operated the following lines:
| line | mark | course |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | white disc, black number | Mockau, Church - Berlin Bridge - Hallisches Tor - Neumarkt - Königsplatz - Brüderstraße - Bayrischer Bahnhof - Elisenstraße - Connewitz, Zwenkauer Straße (sidecars only drove Mockau - Königsplatz / Brüderstraße) |
| 2 | blue disc, white border, white number | Schönefeld, Löbauer Straße - Berlin Bridge - Hallisches Tor - Neumarkt - Königsplatz - Brüderstraße - Bayrischer Bahnhof - Johannisallee - Ostplatz - Stötteritzer Straße (>) / Oststraße (<) - Stötteritz station - Schönbachstraße - Monument to the Battle of the Nations / Südfriedhof |
| 3 | yellow disc, white border, black number | Eutritzsch, Dübener Landstrasse - Eutritzscher Markt - Wittenberger Strasse - Hallisches Tor - Neumarkt - Königsplatz - Wächterstrasse - Beethovenstrasse - Plagwitz Bridge - Schleußig - Adler - Kleinzschocher - Großzschocher, church (sidecars only drove on Plauensche / Richard-Wagner-Strasse - Großzschocher) |
| 4th | white disc, black number | Möckern, Kirschbergstrasse - Eisenacher Strasse - Rosental - Waldplatz - Thomaskirche - Markt - Augustusplatz / north side - Querstrasse - Marienplatz - Kirchplatz - Sellerhausen - Paunsdorf, inn |
| 5 | blue disc, white border, white number | Schönefeld, Löbauer Straße - Stannebeinplatz - Kirchplatz - Marienplatz - Querstraße - Johannisplatz - Bayrischer Bahnhof - Albertstraße - Beethovenstraße - Plagwitz Bridge - Schleußig - Adler - Kleinzschocher, street station |
| 6th | green disc, white border, white number | Gohlis, Landsberger Strasse - Lindenthaler Strasse - Rosental - Waldplatz - Thomaskirche - Markt - Augustusplatz / north side - Querstrasse - Johannisplatz - Eilenburger Bahnhof - Riebeckstrasse - Stötteritz station - Stötteritz, Kolmstrasse |
| 7th | yellow disc, white border, black number | Stötteritz, Papiermühlstraße - Stötteritz station - Riebeckstraße - Eilenburger Bahnhof - Johannisplatz - Bavarian train station - Elisenstraße - Connewitz, Waisenhaus- / Südstraße |
| 8th | blue disc, white border, white number | Schönefeld, Dimpfelstraße - Kirchplatz - Marienplatz - Querstraße - Hahnekamm - Central Station - Hallisches Tor - Neumarkt - Königsplatz - Wächterstraße - Beethovenstraße - Plagwitz Bridge - Schleußig, Könneritz- / Oeserstraße |
| 9 | Wald- / Feuerbachstraße - Waldplatz - Thomaskirche - Markt - Hallisches Tor - Hauptbahnhof - Hahnekamm - Querstraße - Johannisplatz - Eilenburger Bahnhof - Riebeck- / Reitzenhainer Straße | |
| 10 | Main station / west side - Hallisches Tor - Neumarkt - Königsplatz - Brüderstraße - Bavarian train station - Windmühlenweg - Reitzenhainer Straße - Naunhofer Straße |
Before 1902, the lines were only marked using rectangular colored panels, some of which contained different colored diagonal lines.
| line | course |
|---|---|
| A. | Gohlis, Möckernsche Strasse / tram station - Menckestrasse - Zoo - Central Station - Goethestrasse - Königsplatz - Dufourstrasse - Windscheidstrasse |
| B. | Leutzsch train station - Lindenauer Markt - Waldplatz - Weststrasse - Königsplatz - Roßplatz - Windmühlenstrasse - Bayerischer Bahnhof |
| C. | Gohlis, Wiederitzscher Strasse - Menckestrasse - Zoo - Thomaskirche - Dufourstrasse - Kronprinzstrasse - Südstrasse - Kreuz - Connewitz, Wiedebachstrasse |
| D. | Gohlis-Nord, Gottschallstrasse - Zoo - St. Thomas Church - Dufourstrasse - Kronprinzstrasse - Südstrasse - Kreuz - Station Connewitz - Dölitz, Leinestrasse |
| E. | Eutritzsch, Gräfestraße - Eutritzscher Markt - Chausseehaus - Central Station - Georgiring - Roßplatz - Bayerischer Bahnhof - Bayrische Straße - Schlachthof / Kantstraße |
| F. | Lindenau, Karl-Heine-Straße / tram station - Merseburger Straße (>) / GutsMuthsstraße (<) - Lindenauer Markt - Angerbrücke - Waldplatz - Brühl - Augustusplatz / Mittelfahrbahn - Johannisplatz - Ostplatz - Südfriedhof / Tobacco Mill |
| G | Gohlis, Möckernsche Strasse / street station - Menckestrasse - Zoo - Central Station - Goethestrasse - Roßplatz - Bavarian station - Kronprinzstrasse - Südstrasse - station Connewitz - Dölitz, Leinestrasse |
| K | Kleinzschocher, Windorfer Strasse / Church - Adler - Zschochersche Strasse - Weißenfelser Strasse - Nonnenstrasse - Plagwitz Bridge - Promenadenstrasse - Brühl - Augustusplatz / Mittelfahrbahn - Johannisplatz - Dresdner Strasse - Sellerhausen, Untere Torgauer Strasse (Torgauer Platz) |
| L. | Leutzsch train station - Lindenauer Markt - Angerbrücke - Waldplatz - Central Station - Wintergartenstraße - Tauchaer Tor, Ludwig- / Bussestraße |
| M. | Möckern, Tram Station - Hallische Strasse - Chausseehaus - Central Station - Goethestrasse - Königsplatz - Petersteinweg - Südstrasse - Kreuz - Connewitz, Eiskeller (Koburg Bridge) |
| P | Lindenau, Plautstrasse - Lützner Strasse - Lindenauer Markt - Angerbrücke - Waldplatz - Central Station - Goethestrasse - Augustusplatz / Mittelfahrbahn - Johannisplatz - Ostplatz - Südfriedhof - Probstheida, tram station |
| R. | Augustusplatz / Mittelfahrbahn - Johannisplatz - Dresdner Straße - Anger-Crottendorf, Herbartstraße |
| R. | ( Crossed line with red slash) Gohlis-Nord, Gottschallstraße - Michaelisstraße - Hauptbahnhof - Goethestraße - Augustusplatz / Mittelfahrbahn - Johannisplatz - Dresdner Straße - Anger-Crottendorf, Herbartstraße |
| S. | Plagwitz, Staatsbahnhöfe - Felsenkeller - Plagwitzer Brücke - Weststraße - Königsplatz - Georgiring - Wintergartenstraße - Eisenbahnstraße - Sellerhausen, Portitzer Straße |
| V | Kleinzschocher, Windorfer Strasse / Church - Adler - Zschochersche Strasse - Felsenkeller - Angerbrücke - Waldplatz - Central Station - Wintergartenstrasse - Eisenbahnstrasse - Sellerhausen, Portitzer Strasse |
The letter designation was introduced in 1901. The uniform numbering of the entire Leipzig network (excluding external lanes) took place gradually from mid-1919 to early 1920.
| line | mark | from 1929 | course |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schkeuditzer line | District quarter ("thread roll") | 29 | Main station / Richard-Wagner-Strasse - Chausseehaus - Hallische Strasse - Möckern - Wahren - Stahmeln - Lützschena - Schkeuditz |
| Gundorf Line | Triangle ("Meierkelle") | 26, 27 | Main station / Richard-Wagner-Straße - Waldplatz - Angerbrücke - Lindenauer Markt - Leutzsch - Böhlitz - Gundorf (Böhlitz-Ehrenberg) |
| Gautz line | Star ("star path") | 28 | Roßplatz - Königsplatz - Petersteinweg - Südstraße - Kreuz - Koburg Bridge - Oetzsch - Gautzsch, Gasthof (Markkleeberg-West) |
Line network before the Second World War
Before the beginning of the Second World War, the following lines existed:
| line | course | Stops | Travel time (min.) | Train sequence in rush hour traffic (min.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thekla - Mockau - Berlin Bridge - Central Station - Koenigsplatz - Floßplatz - Connewitz, Brandstrasse | 30th | 36 | 7.5 |
| 2 | Plagwitz / Reichsbhf. - Königsplatz - Central Station / Wintergartenstrasse - Eisenbahnstrasse - Sellerhausen, Portitzer Strasse | 29 | 33 | 5 |
| 3 | Großzschocher, Weicheltstrasse / Reichsbhf. - Angerbrücke - Brühl - Reudnitz - Sellerhausen - Paunsdorf, tram station / Böttgerstraße | 43 | 50 | 10 |
| 4th | Knautkleeberg, Reichsbhf. - Großzschocher - Angerbrücke - Brühl - Reudnitz - Sellerhausen - Paunsdorf - Engelsdorf, inn | 53 | 66 | 15th |
| 5 | Kleinzschocher, Kötzschauer Straße - Schleußig - University Library - Bayrischer Bahnhof - Eilenburger Bahnhof - Anger-Crottendorf | 33 | 34 | 10 |
| 6th | Gohlis, barracks - forest square - market - Reudnitz - Stötteritz, Holzhäuser Straße | 41 | 45 | 5 |
| 8th | Hermann-Meyer-Strasse - Schleußig - Central Station - Prager Strasse - Monument to the Battle of the Nations (- Probstheida, street station / Nieritzstrasse [only during rush hour]) | 32 (36) | 42 (46) | 10 (10) |
| 9 | Gohlis, Planitzstrasse - Menckestrasse - Zoo - Central Station - Reudnitz - Stötteritz, Arnoldstrasse | 30th | 35 | 7.5 |
| 10 | Möckern, tram station - Chausseehaus - main station - Königsplatz - Kreuz - Connewitz, Pegauer Strasse | 29/30 | 34/35 | 10 |
| 11 | Wahren, Rathaus - Chausseehaus - Central Station - Königsplatz - Kreuz - Connewitz, Klemmstrasse / Reichsbhf. | 32/33 | 39 | 5 |
| 14th | (Wiederitzsch - [only every second journey]) - Eutritzsch, hospital - Chausseehaus - main train station - Bavarian train station - Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße - An der Märchenwiese | 30 (34) | 36 (40) | 5 (10) |
| 15th | Lindenau, Brockdorff-Rantzau-Straße - Angerbrücke - Brühl - Prager Straße - Probstheida - Meusdorf | 34 | 43 | 20th |
| 15th | Lindenau, Brockdorff-Rantzau-Straße - Angerbrücke - Brühl - Johannisplatz (" intermediate line " in rush hour traffic, with red line number ) | 18th | 24 | 10 |
| 17th | Leutzsch, tram station - Angerbrücke - main station - Stannebeinplatz - Schönefeld, Volbedingstrasse | 33 | 39 | 6th |
| 18th | Leutzsch, Philipp-Reis-Straße - Angerbrücke - Königsplatz - Bavarian train station - German library - Südfriedhof | 31 | 40 | 10 |
| 19th | Lindenau, Uhlandstraße - Angerbrücke - Königsplatz - Bayrischer Bahnhof / Carolinenstraße (- Karl-Siegismund-Straße / Women's Clinic [only Wed and Sun afternoons]) | 18 (22) | 23 (29) | 10 |
| 20th | Gohlis-Nord, Gottschallstraße - Michaelisstraße - Central Station - Eilenburger Bahnhof - Anger-Crottendorf | 21st | 26th | 7.5 |
| 21st | Eutritzscher Markt - Apelstraße - Central Station / West Tower - Königsplatz - Bayrischer Bahnhof - Großmarkthalle (/ Karl-Siegismund-Straße / Frauenklinik [only Wed and Sun afternoons]) (between Bayrischer Bahnhof and Großmarkthalle only in daytime traffic) | 27 (25) | 31 (31) | 7.5 |
| 22nd | Möckern, Krosigkstraße - Waldplatz - Floßplatz - Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße - Südfriedhof - Reudnitz - Stannebeinplatz - Schönefeld, Volbedingstraße | 49 | 57 | 7.5 |
| 23 | Central station - Thomaskirche (→) - Königsplatz (→) - Eisenbahnstraße - Taucha | 31/22 | 42/27 | 20th |
| 24 | Gohlis-Nord, Gottschallstraße - Zoo - Floßplatz - Kreuz - Dölitz (- Markkleeberg-Ost / Göringstraße [only every second trip]) | 34 (37) | 37 (40) | 7.5 (15) |
| 25th | Lindenau, Brockdorff-Rantzau-Straße - Angerbrücke - Brühl - Prager Straße - Probstheida - Meusdorf - Liebertwolkwitz | 39 | 50 | 20th |
| 27 | Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, Burghausener Straße - Leutzsch - Angerbrücke - Thomaskirche (←) - Königsplatz (←) - Central Station (LAAG line) | 27/34 | 30/39 | 15th |
| 28 | Schkeuditz - Wahren - Chausseehaus - Central Station - Königsplatz - Kreuz - Markkleeberg-West, Koburger Strasse (LAAG line) | 56/57 | 70 | 15th |
The line network until 2001
Until the complete redesign of the route network on May 26, 2001, the following routes operated (as of August 20, 2000):
| line | course |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bitterfelder Straße - Central Station / West Side - Schleußig - Lausen (not to Thekla due to construction work on the Berlin Bridge until December 20, 2000) |
| 2 | Plagwitz - Central Station - Bayrischer Platz - Deutsche Bücherei - Lößnig (only Mon-Fri in daytime traffic) |
| 3 | (Knautkleeberg -) Großzschocher - Angerbrücke - Hauptbahnhof - Torgauer Platz - Portitzer Allee - Sommerfeld (only Mon-Sat in daytime traffic) |
| 4th | Knautkleeberg - Großzschocher - Angerbrücke - Central Station - Reudnitz - Stötteritz |
| 5 | Miltitz - Angerbrücke - Leuschnerplatz - Bayrischer Platz - Wiedebachplatz - Lößnig (only in daytime traffic) |
| 6th | Gohlis, Landsberger Straße - Waldplatz - Central Station - Reudnitz - (Torgauer Platz) - Paunsdorf - Sommerfeld |
| 8th | Lausen - Schleußig - Leuschnerplatz - Hauptbahnhof / Wintergartenstraße - Torgauer Platz - Paunsdorf-Nord (- Sommerfeld) (only in daytime traffic) |
| 11 | Schkeuditz - Wahren - Chausseehaus - Central Station - Leuschnerplatz - Connewitz, Kreuz - Dölitz - Markkleeberg-Ost |
| 13 | Grünau-Nord - Angerbrücke - Leuschnerplatz - Hauptbahnhof / Wintergartenstraße - Torgauer Platz - Portitzer Allee - Taucha |
| 15th | Miltitz - Angerbrücke - Central Station - Prager Strasse - Meusdorf |
| 16 | Exhibition grounds - Eutritzsch - Chausseehaus - Central Station - Bayrischer Platz - Wiedebachplatz - Lößnig |
| 17th | Böhlitz-Ehrenberg - Angerbrücke - Central Station - Schönefeld - Mockau - Thekla |
| 20th | Gohlis-Nord - Zoo - Central Station - Reudnitz - Stötteritz |
| 21st | (Exhibition grounds -) Eutritzsch, Hospital - Bitterfelder Straße - Central Station / West Side - Leuschnerplatz - Bayrischer Platz - German Library - Naunhofer Straße (- Meusdorf) |
| 22nd | Thekla - Mockau - Schönefeld - Reudnitz - Prager Straße - Connewitz, Kreuz - Dölitz (only Mon-Fri in daytime traffic) |
| 24 | Gohlis-Nord - Zoo - Central Station - Leuschnerplatz (- Connewitz, Kreuz - Connewitz, Klemmstraße) (only Mon-Fri in daytime traffic) |
| 27 | Leutzsch, tram station - Angerbrücke - main station - Schönefeld, Volbedingstrasse (only in daytime traffic) |
| 28 | Wahren - Chausseehaus - Central Station - Leuschnerplatz - Connewitz, Kreuz - Markkleeberg-West |
| 31 | Thekla - Mockau - Schönefeld - Hauptbahnhof - Schleußig - Lausen (only in daytime traffic, only during construction work on the Berlin Bridge until December 20, 2000) |
The current line network is described in detail in the article Tram Leipzig .
Depots
Strbf. Anger Bridge
The Angerbrücke tram station near the center was opened on December 4, 1925. Among other things, it replaced the depots in Kleinzschocher and Plagwitz. From 1950 to 1990 the Angerbrücke depot was called the “Street Station of German-Soviet Friendship”. After years of renovation, the depot was reopened on June 11, 2005. The western hall was converted into a transit hall and a rear entrance to the hall was created. At the same time, the previous east hall was converted into a covered parking space for company vehicles, with all track systems in this hall being removed. For this purpose, a new entrance with a two-track workshop was built on Capastraße on the east side of the facility.
Strbf. Connewitz I, Brandstrasse / Simildenstrasse
In 1891, LPE opened a new depot between Brandstrasse and Simildenstrasse. The specialty of the Connewitz I depot was that it had a two-story wagon hall. The upper floor was reached from Simildenstrasse, the lower one from Brandstrasse. The depot was electrified together with the first electric tram in Leipzig on April 18, 1896. At the turn of the year 1922/23 the line service ended, the rail connections to Brandstrasse were removed, and in 1931 the connections to Simildenstrasse were also removed. Only the single-track operating line that connected the two roads remained passable.
For technical reasons of the war, the track connection from Brandstrasse to two tracks in the lower hall was restored in 1939. The last time the trains on line 24 were stationed here in August 1957 due to a line interruption. The entire facility including the connecting line was shut down in 1963. In the grounds of the depot and on Simildenstrasse, track remains can still be seen today.
Strbf. Connewitz II, Zwenkauer Strasse
The LESt opened its second southern depot (after Kleinzschocher) on November 10, 1912. After merging with the GLSt, the depot could be removed from the regular service in 1929, and the facility was then used to park damaged wagons. Due to a line closure in August 1957, the depot was used again for trains on lines 10, 11 and 22. The last time the depot was used in 1960/61 for a train on line 26, before the entire facility was shut down in 1963. The last remnant of the depot, the Wendeschleife Hildebrandstraße, which partly led over the depot area, was disconnected from the network on January 21, 1993.
Strbf. Dolitz
In 1900 the GLSt opened a depot in Dölitz, opposite the later Agra site. Twelve years later, a second hall was put into operation before the open parking area east of the halls was opened on July 13, 1984. When an internal timetable change came into effect on April 3, 2011, the tram station became a parking facility and is now subordinate to the tram station in Paunsdorf. On September 30, 2013, scheduled vehicles from Dölitz moved out for the last time before the station was closed due to renovation work. In July 2016, the depot, which now has a double-track workshop and a free parking area as well as a hall for parking buses, was reopened.
Strbf. Eutritzsch
The depot was initially only opened as a stable building for the horse tram in 1886. Only in the following year a small wagon hall was built. The access was from the existing route in Gräfestraße, which, together with the depot, was handed over to electrical operation on April 17, 1897. A second car hall, which could also be reached from Gräfestraße, went into operation in 1899. On November 17, 1908, this hall was enlarged. After the merger of LESt and GLSt, the Eutritzsch depot could also be reached from Delitzscher Strasse from December 1920. For this purpose, a new hall was inserted between the two existing ones. The old small south hall opened in 1887 was given up at the same time. As early as 1927, however, the Eutritzsch depot was closed to regular traffic, the north hall continues to be used to park damaged wagons, the only a few years old central hall was separated from the track network in 1935.
The last lines of lines 16 and 21 were stationed in the north hall from December 4, 1943 to 1949. This had become necessary because the Wittenberger Strasse depot had been bombed. From 1949 until it was finally closed on July 1, 1950, war vehicles were parked in the north hall.
Strbf. Gohlis I, Möckernsche Strasse
From July 25, 1883, Gohlis I housed the first actual main workshop of the Leipzig tram. The workshop hall could only be reached from the rear of the depot via a hand-operated transfer platform . At the time of electrification, on April 18, 1896, Gohlis I was the largest depot of the GLSt. Since there was a line terminus at the depot until 1927, a waiting hall was built in the depot area. A new hall was built by 1899 and the main stable building was converted into a carriage hall. The old workshop hall was given up around 1920 and repairs were carried out in the car halls from then on.
The last lines that were scheduled to be stationed in Gohlis I were lines 28E and 29E until September 24, 1963. In the meantime Gohlis I had been demoted to a branch of the Möckern depot. The plant was shut down at the turn of the year 1963/64.
Strbf. Gohlis II, Landsberger Strasse
The Gohlis-Möckern depot was opened by the LESt on October 30, 1910. After the merger with the GLSt, it was renamed Gohlis II, but ceased operations in 1917 after only seven years.
On November 1, 1925, the depot was reopened for regular operations. From October 1, 1950, the Gohlis II depot was called "Rudi Opitz Youth Station" , as mainly younger employees worked here. Since 1954 it belonged to the Strbf as a branch office. Moan. As a result of the reduction in vehicle requirements after the fall of the Wall, the Gohlis II depot could be dispensed with from May 25, 1993, and the vehicles on line 6 were now stored in Wittenberger Strasse.
Heiterblick main workshop and Heiterblick storage facility
The site was opened in 1915 as the aircraft yard of the » Automobil- und Aviatik-AG « Mülhausen-Burzweiler in Alsace and since then has had its own railway stop on the Leipzig – Eilenburg line and a connecting railway branching off at the Heiterblick junction. In addition, an airfield and observation tower were created. Due to the considerable arms restrictions of the Versailles Treaty in 1919, aircraft construction ended at this location. The city of Leipzig bought the site and converted the facilities into a main tram workshop by June 1, 1926. The connecting line was retained and was electrified in 1942 with a direct voltage of 600 volts. There were two secondary connections, until 1945 to the neighboring Erla machine works to the north , until the complete closure of the Leipzig military district command east of Wodanstrasse. Tram vehicles were also delivered and handed over via the connecting railway. Cars that had been refurbished for other tram operators also reached the HwH via this connection. Due to the use of a crane truck, especially for handling coal, the contact wire height of the connecting railway was 7.40 meters. The pantographs of the connecting railway locomotives therefore had to be raised one and a half meters with scaffolding. Since 1975 the coal crane has only been used in a fixed location, after which the contact wire height could be brought to the regular size. The pantograph frames have been removed.
From the beginning, HW Heiterblick was used exclusively for the repair and partly for the construction of new vehicles. It was not used to set up lines.
On December 31, 1993, the connecting line with the branch line was shut down, the switch connection was not expanded until November 1995.
From 2011 to 2014 the main workshop was extensively expanded and modernized. A large storage hall as well as a new operations and main workshop were planned under the name Technisches Zentrum Heiterblick , while the previous workshop building for the infrastructure area was to remain. Due to problems with the financing of the major project, so far only the new construction of the main workshop including a small open-air parking area could be carried out, so that the timing of the full commissioning of the technical center and the intended abandonment of the Paunsdorf, Leutzsch and Wittenberger Straße tram stations are questionable. In the course of 2016, the free parking area in Heiterblick was put into operation and will initially be operated as a branch of the Paunsdorf tram station.
Strbf. Kleinzschocher
In order to shorten the empty journeys to move in and out, so-called "overnight depots" were built by the LESt around the turn of the century, i.e. those depots that were only used to park vehicles but not to repair them. Kleinzschocher was opened on October 15, 1898 as such an “overnight depot”. From 1906, however, the workshop was also started. On November 15, 1912, a new car hall was opened to the north of the old one. In 1926, due to the opening of the Angerbrücke depot, line operations were suspended. The facility was also used to park damaged wagons and for scrapping candidates. After the Second World War, a line 3 train was temporarily stationed here until the mid-1950s. In 1959 the depot was closed.
Parking facility Lausen
The Lausen parking facility is behind or in the Lausen loop. It opened on September 28, 1986. The Lausen parking facility is assigned to the Angerbrücke tram station and is now used as a parking space for some wagon trains on lines 1 and 2 to avoid long entry and exit routes at night.
Strbf. Leutzsch
The GLSt opened a depot on March 24, 1908 at the also new Wendeschleife Bf. Leutzsch. Some of the railways previously stationed in Lindenau could now be relocated here. Before the First World War, the parking facilities were enlarged and the turning loop was extended to two tracks. In 1968, the last trains on line 27 were relocated to the Angerbrücke and line operations were therefore stopped for the time being. It was not until September 26, 1982, after the installation of a new storage facility, a workshop for Tatra trains and a connecting curve at the Leutzsch town hall in the direction of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, that trains were again accommodated here for regular service. On July 18, 1991, the depot lost its independence and was incorporated into the “Angerbrücke” depot. When the line network was changed on May 27, 2001, the line operations at the Leutzsch depot were also ended. However, it experienced a renaissance during the renovation of the Angerbrücke depot from 2003 to June 11, 2005, when lines 3, 7, 8, 13 and 15 had to be accommodated here. Since the reopening of the Angerbrücke facility, regular service has been suspended, with the exception of temporary use by island businesses in the Leutzsch, Böhlitz-Ehrenberg and Grünau areas. From 2005 to 2011 the »Leoliner« railcars were finally assembled in the Leutzsch tram station, and the workshop of the depot (including an underfloor wheelset lathe in operation here) is occasionally used for special tasks. For example, from 2014 to 2016, the on-board units of the new computer-aided operations control system were installed in all tram railcars and buses. In addition, wagons that are temporarily taken out of service and that are temporarily not required or that cannot be used are stored in Leutzsch.
Strbf. Lindenau
From 1899 on, there was a road station and workshop on the site of today's Lindenau bus station. The latter had a peculiarity. Only one of its four tracks was connected to the network, the others had to be reached via a transfer table. Just one year later, a power station and another wagon hall were built. In 1907 a third wagon hall was built, which in turn had a transfer table. After the construction of new depots, the last line coaches on line P were moved to Probstheida in 1913. The oldest car shed was converted into a workshop room that was then trackless. Nevertheless, a new workshop hall was built in the same year, which could only be reached via transfer platforms. In 1924 another workshop was built in the back of the facility, where most of the tracks were again connected by a new transfer table. These complicated systems and the increasing number of buses made a new solution urgently necessary.
In August 1927, after the new main Heiterblick workshop went into operation, the workshops in Lindenau were closed. Buses have been stationed in the halls since April 1, 1928. The hall, which opened in 1924, had a siding until 1972. Tram cars that were no longer needed were housed here. The depot served from 1938 to 1975 and the trolleybus . The three tracks between the two halls opened in 1899 still exist today and were connected to Lützner Straße on March 27, 1984 via a track triangle. The tracks in the depot have been powerless since November 2008 and the connecting track in the direction of Grünau was separated from the line by Lützner Straße. When the line in Lützner Strasse was rebuilt to the 2012/13 tram level, the last track connection to the site was finally severed.
Strbf. Moan
After a terminal system had already been built in 1905 on what will later be the depot, the car hall and workshop were opened on July 1, 1907. Until about 1924, two of the four hall tracks could only be reached via a transfer platform. In 1909 a second four-track hall was added. Until 1926, the liner trains of line 10 used the depot for relocating.
The depot burned down on March 19, 1972, and liner trains were not able to return until October of that year. The workshop was not reopened until 1986, but was then able to accommodate Tatra trains. In 1998, the depot was closed to regular traffic and converted into a tram museum, where the preserved historic cars were stored. Since then, the courtyard as a tram museum has been open to visitors every third Sunday of the month from May to September. On opening days, the special route 29 E ran between Möckern and Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz. At the end of the 2018 season, operations in the Möckern tram station were finally given up, the historic tram cars were relocated to the Wittenberger Strasse station at the beginning of May 2019.
During track construction work, the tram station lost most of its access roads in 2013 and has only been accessible to a limited extent since then.
Strbf. Paunsdorf
The LESt opened its last new depot on June 1, 1913. It burned down completely on June 23, 1920. The hall could not be reopened until 1922, but it was not used in regular service, but for the parking of old trams. From October 1, 1924, line trains were again stationed in Paunsdorf. On June 9, 1926, a second carriage hall was inaugurated. In 1965 a workshop was also set up. In 1978 the sidings west of the halls connected to the city and the large loop around the depot were opened, followed in 1987 by the sidings connected in the landward direction. Since 2000, the farm has been home to tram trains as well as various bus courses. Although the tram station was actually to be given up for tram operation with the complete construction of the Heiterblick Technical Center, maintenance work must be carried out again and again to maintain operational safety, so that it can be used until 2020.
Strbf. Plagwitz
On December 24, 1881, LPE opened a new depot in Plagwitz, at Karl-Heine-Strasse 85/87. After an expansion of the old hall in 1889, one of the horse stables was converted into a hall for sidecars around 1895, and the other horse stable was also converted into a carriage hall in 1897. In 1908 the facility was expanded again. Until 1917, the trams on Line F turned in the depot area. After the new Angerbrücke depot was opened on December 4, 1925, line operations in the Plagwitz depot were discontinued. The facility was used to park abandoned vehicles until it was closed in 1935.
Strbf. Probstheida
When the GLSt opened the tram line to Probstheida on December 20, 1900, it also opened the depot at the Probstheida loop that opened on May 1, 1913 . On September 4, 1912, a second wagon hall was opened to the south of the old one.
The Probstheida depot was closed to trams on August 1, 1973 and converted into a bus depot. Buses were stationed in Probstheida from April 15, 1977 until the 1990s. The Wendeschleife was expanded to three tracks for stadium traffic in 1988, but was dismantled again on one track in 2004, before the loop was completely shut down and dismantled in 2010 as part of the urban railway expansion. Instead, a new terminal system for bus routes 75, 76, 108 and 141 was put into operation.
Strbf. Reudnitz
The first tram station in Leipzig and at the same time the company headquarters of LPE was the depot on Dresdner Straße in Reudnitz. It was opened with the first horse-drawn railway line on May 18, 1872. The wagon hall had to be expanded just five years later. After the depot was electrified on March 2, 1897, the stables could be demolished. In May 1910, the GLSt opened a new car hall in its place. A third hall, which could only be reached from Täubchenweg, was opened in 1926.
From 1970 to 1972 the LVB expanded the Reudnitz depot. To do this, she rebuilt the driveways to Dresdner Strasse and Täubchenweg. Furthermore, the back of the hall connected to Täubchenweg was opened and a free parking area was created between Dresdner Straße and this hall. With the opening of the turning loop on the apron of the depot, the work was completed on December 5, 1972.
On May 6, 1998, the depot was shut down after almost 126 years of operation, as the decline in passenger numbers since the political change, accompanied by a steady reduction in the fleet, resulted in a lower need for parking space and consequently the Paunsdorf tram station was able to accommodate the cars from Reudnitz. The track connection over Täubchenweg was shut down together with the line to Anger-Crottendorf on August 27, 1997, while the reversing loop on Dresdner Strasse, which was connected on all sides, could still be used until 2004. Despite the listed status, the halls were largely demolished in the following years. Only a small part of the old hall structure has been preserved inside a district center with a large grocery store that opened on April 4, 2007.
Strbf. Schkeuditz
The LAAG's only own depot was at the terminal in Schkeuditz. The company opened it on October 27, 1910. It was not until 1958 that the track loop was built. The LVB closed the depot around 2001, after line operations had largely been suspended in the previous years and parts of the vehicle collection of the tram museum were housed here.
Today the former tram station is used as an event hall. Today it no longer has its own siding, but remains of rails can still be seen in front of the hall.
Strbf. Sellerhausen, Bennigsenstrasse
When GLSt's Reudnitz depot was expanded in 1909, some of the vehicles housed there had to be relocated. For this purpose, two sidings were built next to Bennigsenstrasse at today's Torgauer Platz and opened on October 7, 1909. The facility was removed again in 1910 after the renovation in Reudnitz was completed.
Strbf. Stötteritz, Holzhäuser Strasse
The LESt opened another overnight depot on May 15, 1898 at the end of the tram at Holzhäuser Strasse. By 1908, the company added another car hall to the facility. Until 1917 the line operation was stopped, trains of the line 6 were stationed here, which were then relocated to Probstheida. Between 1924 and 1926, the GLSt reopened the depot, but only as a branch of Reudnitz. The company then used the facility to park vehicles that were no longer in use. In 1929 the track access was rebuilt and connecting tracks were used in the landward direction. From December 1943 to the early 1950s, trains on lines 6 and 7 and sidecars on line 4 were discontinued in Stötteritz. In 1957, the LVB shut down the Stötteritz depot.
Strbf. Wittenberger Strasse (historic tram station)
The LESt opened the depot closest to the center on May 20, 1896. Initially there were two car halls with a workshop in between. This could only be achieved via a transfer table. All systems were initially only connected from Wittenberger Strasse. On August 20, 1898, a transfer platform was opened at the rear of the halls, which connected all the hall tracks. At the same time, the depot was connected to the track system in Apelstraße by building a further small workshop and another wagon hall, both of which, however, had no exit to Wittenberger Straße. A free parking space was also created on the corner of Apel- / Berliner Straße. This could only be reached via a transfer table. It was not until October 1909 that the first through track from Apelstrasse to Wittenberger Strasse was established.
In 1920 the GLSt ceased line operations, only the workshop continued to operate. Railcars belonging to the track construction department were parked in the hall connected to Apelstrasse. The depot was only reopened for regular operations in 1927. After the main workshop in Heiterblick was completed, most of the workshop operations could be relocated there. So that the operational process could be made easier, the transfer platforms were removed by October 1928 and the former older workshop hall was also connected directly to Wittenberger Straße. The free parking area has been closed.
On December 4, 1943, the depot was largely destroyed by Allied bombers. Only part of the workshop remained operational. In 1945 part of the hall connected to Apelstraße was demolished and a new free parking area was created. Line operations could only be resumed at the beginning of 1949.
Extensive renovation work began in 1964. To this end, a track loop was built through Bitterfelder Strasse by 1968. From 1980, the trains could no longer move directly into Apelstrasse in the direction of Berliner Strasse, but only landward. Since then they have had to take the detour via the track loop. This measure had become necessary because the LVB wanted to set up an additional free parking area with eleven tracks on Berliner Straße and the switch systems would have become much too complex if the connections in the direction of Berliner Straße had been retained. The workshop facility was modernized by November 8, 1992. The free parking facility on Berliner Straße has been used repeatedly to park abandoned cars since around 2000. After the completion of the tram stations in Heiterblick and Dölitz in 2016, the tram station Wittenberger Strasse was closed as an operation point. In 2018, the catenary of the parking facility was dismantled.
In May 2019 it was reopened as a museum location and replaces the former historic tram station in Möckern. Hall I was rebuilt for this in 2012. The previous nine hall tracks became seven. In the distant future, the buses of the AG Historische Nahverkehrsmittel Leipzig eV will also be parked in Wittenberger Strasse.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Netz 2010 ( Memento of November 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (via Internet Archive)
- ↑ Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe: From a couple to the light rail. 1996, p. 61.
- ↑ according to the last pre-war timetable from June 1, 1939.
- ↑ according to the last timetable with the old network, valid from August 20, 2000.
- ↑ Technical Center Heiterblick ( Memento from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Efficiency (accessed on December 11, 2011)
literature
- Klaus Adam among others: From the couple to the light rail. The history of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe and its predecessors. LVB publishing house, Leipzig 1996.
- Gerhard Bauer, Norbert Kuschinski: The trams in East Germany. Schweers + Wall publishing house, Aachen.
- Volume 1 Saxony. 1993, ISBN 3-921679-79-6 .