Leipzig Magdeburg train station

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Magdeburg train station, 1844
Magdeburg train station (left), around 1900

The Magdeburg train station was a train station in Leipzig , which served from 1840 to 1912 as the end point for the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line .

history

The Magdeburg train station was located in the area of ​​the east hall of today's Leipzig main station and at that time bordered the outer development of the city. It was opened on August 18, 1840 immediately to the north-west (on the left-hand side as seen from the promenade) of the Dresden train station , making it the second oldest train station in the trade fair city.

The first building, which existed until the beginning of the 1860s, consisted of a four-aisled wooden station hall, the entrance of which was symmetrically delimited on both sides by brick buildings. In front of the station concourse there was a turntable for turning the locomotives. In contemporary descriptions, the ensemble found no grace from an aesthetic point of view:

“The next oldest railway is the Magdeburg – Leipziger, whose management is based in Magdeburg. The train station is right next to the Leipzig – Dresden Railway, but it is even poorer. "

In 1862/63 the Magdeburg-Leipzig railway company built a new station building. After the nearby Thuringian train station was demolished in the course of the construction of the Leipzig main train station in 1907 , the Magdeburg train station took over its tasks for a few years. On October 1, 1912, it was the second of the train stations that were once located in the area of ​​today's main train station to be closed and subsequently demolished.

literature

  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8
  • Wolfram Sturm: Railway Center Leipzig - History from the beginning to the present. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-9807201-9-5
  • Carl Weidinger: Leipzig. A guide to the city and its surroundings. Verlagbuchhandlung JJ Weber, Leipzig 1860, 1989 (repr.), ISBN 3-350-00310-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Weidinger: Leipzig. A guide to the city and its surroundings. Verlagbuchhandlung JJ Weber, Leipzig 1860, 1989 (repr.), ISBN 3-350-00310-9

Web links

Commons : Leipzig Magdeburger Bahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 43.6 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 55.7 ″  E