Leipzig Thuringian train station
The Thuringian train station was a train station in Leipzig that was used for rail traffic from 1857 to 1907. It was demolished when construction of the new Leipzig Central Station began in 1907 .
history
Between 1845 and 1847 the Thuringian Railway Company built a railway line to Thuringia starting in Halle (Saale) , without including Leipzig as a stopping point in the planning. In order to connect the trade fair city, which as the end point of the Leipzig-Dresden railway , the Saxon-Bavarian railway and the Magdeburg-Leipzig railway had already become a railway junction, to the Thuringian line, a 31.5 kilometer connection was established from Leipzig to Corbetha until 1856 ( Großkorbetha ) built.
The southern part of the so-called Gerberwiesen, which bordered the urban area in the north and was not far northwest of the Dresden and Magdeburg train stations , was selected as the location for the station area . Due to the unfavorable soil conditions - the station was to be built in an area enclosed by an arm of the Parthe - the railway company initially had to carry out considerable preparatory work after acquiring the property from the city of Leipzig. The swampy subsoil, which consisted of moss soil and a layer of peat moss up to 1.7 meters deep, was excavated and filled with sand from the nearby Mockau . To this end, 700 workers with 300 dump trucks and horse-drawn carts on rails were deployed. The following can be read in a contemporary report on the construction:
“Two-wheeled carts, pulled by people, moved in long trains on the makeshift lanes across the meadow, covering the swamp with sand and thus creating the construction sites for the new station facilities. […] Nevertheless, water still penetrated the excavation pits everywhere. […] This was extremely arduous and aggravating work for the workers, the water stung the feet in a peculiar way very bright red, various had to be employed elsewhere. "
The new route was inaugurated on March 22, 1856. Curiously, only a provisional station building existed at that time. The foundation stone for the reception building and the station hall was not laid until March 28, 1856. The station hall, which was built in the following months, was 96 meters long and 27.8 meters wide. The supporting structure of the hall, which covered four tracks, was made of wrought iron instead of wood, as in the other Leipzig train stations. The architectural model was the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, which opened in 1847.
The terminal station was officially opened on July 11, 1857 . The entire station area, on which there was also a gas station and a water purification plant, took up an area of around 100,000 square meters. At peak times, around 25 trains were dispatched from here every day.
Because of the construction of the Leipzig main train station, which was initially beginning in the west on the Prussian side, the Thuringian train station had to give way as the first of the stations that were once there. On October 1, 1907, the station was closed and subsequently demolished.
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 .
- David Falk: Leipzig – Großkorbetha - 150 years of railway connection history. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-936508-14-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ p. 17
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 52.3 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 48.2" E