Grünau settlement
 district of Leipzig |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '43 " N , 12 ° 17' 21" E |
| surface | 1.58 km² |
| Residents | 3851 (2019) |
| Population density | 2437 inhabitants / km² |
| Post Code | 04207 |
| prefix | 0341 |
| Borough | west |
| Transport links | |
| tram | 1, 2 |
| bus | 61/161, 65, 66 |
| Source: statistik.leipzig.de | |
Grünau-Siedlung is a district in the west of Leipzig . It comprises the Grünau and Kirschbergsiedlung , which were laid out in the 1910s to 30s according to the garden city concept and are characterized by single-family houses. Only a small strip of the district belongs to the adjacent Grünau prefabricated housing estate .
location
Grünau settlement is located about 8 kilometers west-southwest of Leipzig city center. The district has an L-like shape. It is bordered by Lausner Weg in the south and Krakauer Straße in the west. The western part of the district (Kirschbergsiedlung) extends in the north to Lützner, in the east to Kiewer Straße. The southeastern part (Grünau settlement) is bordered by Ratzelstrasse in the north and Schönauer Strasse in the east. Neighboring districts are (clockwise from the north) Grünau-Nord, Schönau , Grünau-Mitte, Kleinzschocher , Großzschocher and Lausen-Grünau.
history
The Kirschbergsiedlung was built from 1914 on the Großmiltitz district - outside the Leipzig city limits. It is named after the 127 meter high Kirschberg, which is part of a terminal moraine that runs in a north-south direction and was named after a former cherry tree plantation. The Grünau settlement was laid out in 1920 on the Kleinzschocher district , which at that time was already a district of Leipzig. The site belonged to the former Kleinzschocher manor. Most of the streets in the settlement were named after places in Franconia (e.g. Bamberger , Erlanger , Rothenburger , Würzburger Straße). In the first half of the 1930s, the Neugrünau settlement was added, which connects the Kirschberg settlement with the Grünau settlement.
From the 1970s onwards, Leipzig's largest prefabricated housing estate, which was also named Grünau , was built to the north and west of the housing estates . The area of the Kirschbergsiedlung belonged to Miltitz until 1979, when it was incorporated into Leipzig. Some streets of the Kirschbergsiedlung were then renamed and were named after health resorts ( Blankenburger , Köstritzer , Lobensteiner , Schmiedeberger , Wilsnacker Straße etc.). The GDR leadership initially planned the new district without churches. With funds from the West German churches, two churches were finally built in the early 1980s as part of the special construction program “Churches for New Cities”. Both the Protestant St. Paul's Church and the Catholic St. Martin Church are located in what is now the Grünau-Siedlung district. The construction of the S-Bahn line to Miltitzer Allee in 1982 divided the Kirschbergsiedlung.
With the municipal subdivision of 1992, the city administration established the administrative-statistical district of Grünau-Siedlung in order to take into account the building and population structure of the residential complexes, which differs greatly from the adjacent prefabricated residential complexes.
Location typical
Most of the area of the district is dedicated as a residential area . Exceptions are a mixed area on Kiewer / Ratzelstrasse with the district center “Ratzelbogen” and the specialist garden center on Lützner Strasse. The residential buildings are predominantly single-family houses with garden plots. Only in the east of the district on Brambacher Straße are four 5-storey apartment blocks in prefabricated construction and a 7-storey old people's home .
traffic
Line S 1 of the Central German S-Bahn runs through the district . In Grünau-Siedlung itself there is no stopping point, the S-Bahn stations Karlsruher Straße and Miltitzer Allee are directly beyond the district boundaries. The main traffic axis is the Ratzelstraße, along which the tram lines 1 and 2 run (with separate track bed), which connect southern Grünau with the city center, and in some parts also the bus lines 61 and 66. The bus line 65 runs on Schönauer Straße on the eastern edge of the Grünau settlement.
literature
- Pro Leipzig (ed.) Grünau - Kirschbergsiedlung. A historical and urban study. Leipzig 1996.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b City of Leipzig: Directory of Leipzig street names with explanations. Statistics and Elections Office, 2018.
- ↑ Kleinzschocher. In: Vera Denzer, Andreas Dix, Haik Thomas Porada (eds.): Leipzig. A regional study in the Leipzig area. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, p. 352.
- ↑ City of Leipzig zoning plan , as of April 2020.