Leipziger Platz (Erfurt)
The Leipziger Platz is a square in the east of Erfurt , located in the district Krämpfervorstadt .
Location and traffic
Leipziger Platz is a triangular, completely and uniformly enclosed square. Liebknechtstrasse to the northwest and Leipziger Strasse to the northeast begin at the north corner. Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse to the east and Thälmannstrasse to the south begin at the south-east corner and Krämpferstrasse to the south-west into the city center at the south-west corner. Furthermore, the Stauffenbergallee runs in a north-south direction through the south-west corner of Leipziger Platz. The side lengths are about 100 meters. In the middle of Leipziger Platz there is a green area with a fountain, at the edge of the road there are avenues of trees.
Leipziger Platz is very important for traffic. Here the old road from Erfurt to Leipzig ( Via regia ) leads out of the city and intersects the city ring (Stauffenbergallee) and the Liebknechtstrasse / Thälmannstrasse, which used to be important as the Ringstrasse. Today Leipziger Straße leads out of the city to Kerspleben and on to Buttelstedt . The Geschwister-Scholl-Straße is the old connection from Erfurt to Azmannsdorf , on which the Thuringian chain of cities runs today . At the south-western end of the square there used to be the Krämpfertor of the Erfurt city fortifications .
The square is connected to public transport by tram line 2 , which stops in the middle. It connects the Anger in the city center with the Ringelberg on the eastern outskirts. The line was laid out in 1904, shut down in 1922 and rebuilt in 2000. Another tram line existed between 1912 and 1973 on Liebknecht- / Thälmannstraße. Today the city bus line 9 runs here.
History and development
Leipziger Platz was laid out between 1904 and 1916. Since it is located on Leipziger Strasse, it was quickly popularly known as Leipziger Platz, although it did not officially have a name. The perimeter development was created around the turn of the century with representative facades in the style of historicism and art nouveau . Tenement houses with shops on the ground floor are dominant. The only public building is the medical college on the north corner of the square, founded in 1906. Its building is built in splendid neo-baroque forms .
In the evening hours of December 6, 1944, a British 1.8 t air mine struck in the middle of Leipziger Platz and tore a deep crater in the green area. The buildings around the square suffered severe damage.
In 1971, the square was given an official name for the first time: Paris Commune Square . Since 1990 it has also been officially called Leipziger Platz. In 2000 the square was completely redesigned in connection with the new construction of the tram route. Funding from the EU's URBAN project was used for this.
Web links
- Leipziger Platz ( Memento from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- The State Vocational School 6 for Health and Social Affairs ( Memento from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Leipziger Platz
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 52 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 29 ″ E