Inner City Ring (Leipzig)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '26.2 "  N , 12 ° 22' 34"  E

Downtown Leipzig with the Ring

The inner city ring in Leipzig (also called "Ring" for short ) is the ring road around Leipzig city center. It encloses the area of ​​the medieval core city without the suburbs of that time.

history

Georgiring with Augustusplatz, view from the Europahaus (around 1930)

The inner city ring traces the course of the former city fortifications, which were razed after the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). Striking corner points within the city fortifications were the city ​​gates , the names of which have been retained as street names based on the ring. As early as the beginning of the 18th century, the fortifications had been greened with avenues, which until the middle of the century formed a promenade ring , some of which was multi-row . The name was carried over to the later horticultural facilities, which to this day almost completely surround the city center within the street ring. The Promenadenring is the oldest municipal landscape park in Germany and one of the most important garden and cultural monuments in Leipzig. In the turning autumn of 1989, the Monday demonstrations from Augustusplatz led across almost the entire ring.

course

Tröndlinring at the "Goerdelerring" tram stop between the Reformed Church and the Höfe am Brühl (2016)

The road ring, which is around 3.6 kilometers long, is now a four- to six-lane road with a continuous tram track and consists of the following sections (starting clockwise at the main station):

  • the 1133 meter long Willy-Brandt-Platz (after the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt ; formerly the square in front of the Thuringian train station , Blücherplatz , Karl-Legien-Platz and Platz der Republik ) in front of the main train station
  • the 750-meter-long Georgiring (after the Mayor of Leipzig Otto Georgi ; formerly Bahnhofstrasse ), which runs in a north-south direction
  • the 305 meter long east side of Augustus Square (after the Saxon King Frederick Augustus I , formerly Grimmaischer Thor Place and in the meantime Karl Marx Square ), which differs from the main facade of the opera to the House of Europe extends
  • the 409 meter long Roßplatz adjoining it to the south (including the socialist-classicist ring development ) with a turn to the west. The " Schillerpark " to the north was designed in 1857 by Peter Joseph Lenné .
  • the 107 meter long north side of Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (after the social democratic politician Wilhelm Leuschner ; formerly Königsplatz ), in the further course of which the Peterssteinweg joins as an extension of the Karl-Liebknecht-Straße coming from the south
  • the 593 meter long Martin-Luther-Ring (after the reformer Martin Luther ; formerly Obstmarkt , An der Pleiße and Rathausring ) in the course from east to west, which turns north in front of the New Town Hall and in the Wilhelm-Leuschner- Platz – Nonnenmühlgasse and from Lotterstraße into a main and a secondary route
  • the 468 meter long Dittrichring (after the Mayor of Leipzig Rudolf Dittrich ; formerly An der Pleiße and Thomasring ), which is divided by a green area into a main and secondary course , which also passes the Thomaskirche , which opens into Gottschedstraße opposite
  • the 361 meter long eastern section of the Goerdelerring (after the Mayor of Leipzig Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ; formerly the separate Fleischerplatz and Schulplatz squares , which were combined to form Friedrich-Engels-Platz in 1945 ), which runs in a north-easterly direction after passing the "round corner" continues - the section of the Goerdelerring running west between Pfaffendorfer Strasse and Jacobstrasse, which merges into Ranstädter Steinweg , can no longer be included in the actual inner city ring due to the changes in the road layout after the Second World War
  • and finally the 827-meter-long Tröndlinring (after the Mayor of Leipzig, Carl Bruno Tröndlin ; formerly Am Löhrschen Platze ) between Pfaffendorfer Strasse and Gerberstrasse, which then flows back into Willy-Brandt-Platz

The federal highways 6 (Willy-Brandt-Platz) and 87 (Tröndlinring) run over the Leipziger Ring .

Last street names

Street Decision making Come into effect annotation
Willy-Brandt-Platz November 16, 1993 18th December 1993
Georgiring 1899
Augustusplatz October 2, 1990 3rd October 1990
Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz August 1, 1945
Martin Luther Ring November 3, 1933 November 10, 1933
Dittrichring November 3, 1917 December 22, 1917
Goerdelerring November 19, 1991 January 1, 1992 only renaming Friedrich-Engels-Platz in Goerdelerring
Trondlinring June 20, 1908 January 1, 1909

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b All specified lengths only include the sections of the respective streets that are part of the inner city ring as main roads. They are taken from the street section directory of the City of Leipzig, Traffic and Civil Engineering Office, as of March 1, 2011 (inventory according to § 4 Sächsisches Straßengesetz - SächsStrG - from January 21, 1993)
  2. ↑ After subtracting the street lengths listed several times in the inventory for parallel lanes.
  3. ↑ Including two parallel lanes with turning lanes.
  4. ↑ Including two parallel lanes.
  5. ↑ This length only includes the sections Roßplatz – Grimmaischer Steinweg as a single lane (183 meters) and Grimmaischer Steinweg – Georgiring with two parallel lanes (235 meters).
  6. ↑ This length only includes the section Martin-Luther-Ring-Roßplatz.
  7. ↑ The side tours to the north and east of the main road, which also belong to the Martin Luther Ring, are another 538 meters long.
  8. ↑ The side course to the east of the main road, which also belongs to the Dittrichring, is another 565 meters long.
  9. ↑ This length only includes the section Dittrichring – Tröndlinring including a turning lane.
  10. ↑ Including two parallel lanes.

literature

  • Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 .
  • Kathrin Franz: The green promenade ring. Walk around Leipzig city center. City of Leipzig, Office for Urban Renewal and Housing Promotion and Green Space Office 2004.
  • Nadja Horsch, Simone Tübbecke (ed.): Citizens' gardens promenades. Leipzig garden culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Passage-Verlag Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95415-072-4 .