Leipzig Steinweg

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The cabinet map (1762) by Isaak Jacob von Petri gives an overview of Eilenburg and its suburbs:
(1) Sand community
(2) Leipziger Steinweg
(3) Zscheppelende
(4) Valley community
(5) Hainichen
(6) Hinterstadt
(7 ) Alley community
(8) Torgauer Steinweg

Leipziger Steinweg (also Leipziger Vorstadt ) was a municipality in the Eilenburg district and from 1815 in the Delitzsch district . The place, which essentially consisted of a street with buildings on both sides, was one of the eight suburbs of Eilenburg . It was west of Eilenburg between the Leipziger Tor and the Mühlgrabenbrücke. Today this area between Wallstrasse and Leipziger Brücke is largely undeveloped.

history

When the construction of the first city fortifications began in 1150, there should have been no settlement in the named area. In 1400 the Eilenburger Chronik mentions a Leipzig suburb with 36 “souls”. On July 5, 1558, there was a fire in which all buildings in the community were destroyed. Another fire occurred in 1636, which killed four houses.

In 1595 the Eilenburg council sold four building plots in front of the Leipziger Tor. One of these was acquired by Salomon Müller, in whose house a tipper mint was set up in 1622 , which minted coins of 12, 24 and 30 Kreuzers . In 1630 the Eilenburg council appointed judge Hans Sturz as inspector and street manager for the now 18 houses in the community, in which "unemployed, frivolous servants and ownerless servants" are said to have resided. In 1724 a post mile column was erected in front of the Leipziger Tor , which was later removed and rebuilt in 2012. During the Seven Years' War there was cannon fire by the Prussian troops in 1758, to which part of the community fell victim. The brothers Gustav (1832) and Oskar Höcker (1840) were born in the Leipzig suburb in the first half of the 19th century .

When the city walls were torn down in 1820 and the city gates in 1835, the Leipziger Steinweg quickly grew together with the old city area. So in 1835, Carl Müller's soap factory was built in Wallstrasse at the former Leipziger Tor. On April 9, 1856, it was incorporated into Eilenburg. The closed development was largely destroyed in the Second World War and has not yet been replaced.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eilenburg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ↑ a b c History of the city of Eilenburg chronologically in excerpts, taken, revised and compiled from chronicles, non-fiction books and treatises by Siegfried Buchhold ( digitized version )

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '  N , 12 ° 38'  E