Leipzig suburb

Leipzig suburb State capital Dresden Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 19 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 21" E
Area :	2.11 km²
Residents :	12,084 (Dec. 31, 2012)
Population density :	5.727 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes :	01127, 01097
Area code :	0351
	Leipzig suburb in Dresden

St. Peter's Church

Ruins of the St. Pauli Church

Hansastrasse residential complex

Head building "Zum Deutschen Ritter" at Leipziger Strasse 22 / corner of Erfurter Strasse

The Leipziger Vorstadt is a district of Dresden . It is one of the suburbs of Dresden and was named after the city of Leipzig , in the direction of which it is located in front of Dresden city center.

location

The comparatively large district is located northwest of the Inner Neustadt largely in the Neustadt district .

The district borders in the southwest on the Elbe and Friedrichstadt , in the northwest on Pieschen and Trachenberge , in the north on Hellerberge , in the east on Albertstadt , the Äußere Neustadt and in the southeast on the Innere Neustadt , the south of the district borders on the Wilsdruffer suburb .

structure

The (approximate) present-day area of the Leipziger Vorstadt is divided into nine statistical districts named after it, which in turn belong to three statistical districts:

Leipziger Vorstadt (No. 14), part of the Neustadt district:
- 141 Leipziger Vorstadt (Eisenbahnstrasse)
- 142 Leipziger Vorstadt (Rudolfstrasse)
- 143 Leipziger Vorstadt (Helgolandstrasse)
- 144 Leipzig suburb (lower pike)
- 145 Leipziger Vorstadt (Middle Pike)
- 146 Leipziger Vorstadt (Upper Hecht)
Pieschen-Süd with Leipziger Vorstadt-West (Neudorf) (No. 21), belonging to the Pieschen district:
- 211 Leipziger Vorstadt (Weimar Street)
- 212 Leipziger Vorstadt (Moritzburger Str.)
Pieschen-Nord / Trachenberge with Leipziger Vorstadt-Nordwest (No. 25), belonging to the district of Pieschen :
- 251 Leipziger Vorstadt-Nordwest (Liststrasse)

The district is delimited (clockwise) as follows (the delimitation shown here corresponds to that of the statistical districts): Stauffenbergallee - Hechtstraße - Görlitz – Dresden (Dammweg) railway line - Lößnitzstraße - Eisenbahnstraße - Uferstraße - Elbe - Moritzburger Straße - Leipziger Straße - Oschatzer Straße - Bürgerstraße - Moritzburgerplatz - along the Dresden-Pieschen – Dresden-Neustadt railway to around Leisniger Platz - Leipzig – Dresden railway (Riesaer Straße) - Weinböhlaer Straße - Hansastraße - Hammerweg.

The Leipzig suburb was historically described with sometimes slightly different area boundaries.

Urban planning the station facilities and the track ahead of the dominate Leipziger station and the adjacent area in the interior of Neustadt situated station Dresden-Neustadt the district. The district is cut into several city quarters by the tracks.

history

The Leipziger Vorstadt lies on the corridor of the former town of Neudorf , the center of which is what is now Moritzburger Strasse in Pieschen . Neudorf was created as a new village in 1546. The reason for this was a decree by Elector Moritz von Sachsen , according to which residents of Altendresdens on the right Elbe had to give way for the construction of a fortress wall. The municipality, also known as the city of Neudorf , was part of the soft landscape of Dresden from the very beginning and, for example, was referred to as Commun-Theil of Dresden-Neustadt in 1834 . After the changes made by the Saxon rural community order of 1838 , Neudorf became an independent community in 1839, which was incorporated into Dresden in 1866. The rural Neudorf merged into the Leipzig suburb formed in 1875.

The Scheunenhofviertel arose after the great fire of 1685 Altendresden beyond the Dresden city walls.

Around 1830 there was only the village settlement Neudorf (population in 1831: 677) in the western part and the barns in the eastern part (population in 1831: 390) on the grounds of today's Leipzig suburb . The Dresden police chief Hans Ludwig von Oppell acquired 23 hectares of land that had previously been used by the Saxon army . From 1842 the “new extension on the von Oppell fields”, known today as the Hechtviertel , was built. Thanks to its proximity to the Elbe and the railway facilities of the first German long - distance railway, Leipzig – Dresden , which was inaugurated in 1839 , the suburb became the industrial district of the Neustadt. Industry settled primarily between the Elbe, which received another port in the 1870s , and the railway facilities, with a concentration towards the Leipzig train station . On October 29, 1874, the Dresden city council decided to rename the district to "Leipziger Vorstadt". Its industrial development was reinforced by the local law from 1878, which, among other things, declared the Leipzig suburb to be an industrial district. The most important companies included the sewing machine factory Clemens Müller , the stoneware factory Villeroy & Boch , the drug and finishing institute Gehe & Co by Franz Ludwig Gehe , the Saxon steam ship and mechanical engineering institute , the Grumbt steam sawmill and the municipal slaughterhouse (now the old slaughterhouse ) .

Workers' housing estates emerged more towards the west and north, on the outer border of the district. The Hechtviertel, initially counted as part of Albertstadt , was the starting point for further development between Großenhainer and Königsbrücker Straße . In the last third of the 19th century, the suburb of Neudorf grew together with neighboring Pieschen. At the time, multi-storey residential and commercial buildings were built in closed construction. In addition, several larger allotment gardens grew up.

As a result of the renaming of the district, the “Neue Meißner Post- und Landstrasse”, which was built around a hundred years earlier in a flood-proof area and which also led to Leipzig, was renamed “ Leipziger Strasse ”. When the horse tram was introduced in Dresden at the end of the 19th century , horse trams ran through the Leipzig suburb to Mickten as early as 1882. In 1889 the St. Petri Church was built on Großenhainer Straße and in 1891 the St. Pauli Church in the Hechtviertel. Around 1910, when the suburb reached its highest level of population, the Leipzig suburb was one of the most densely populated districts in all of Dresden. After the First World War, modern cooperative apartments were built in the northern Hechtviertel.

After the bombing raids on Dresden and the end of the Second World War, there was a lot of damage in 1945, such as the destruction of the St. Pauli Church. The decline in the GDR was just as serious. Some houses were demolished because of the advanced decay. After the fall of the Wall , the Hechtviertel was declared a redevelopment area and many ailing buildings in the district have since been renewed. Some streets achieved the flair of the trendy district in the Outer Neustadt with new restaurants.

Development

The district is predominantly characterized by block perimeter development from the Wilhelminian era and the years that followed. Cooperative apartment blocks such as the "Hansa development" between Großenhainer and Hansastraße characterize the picture northwest of Dresden-Neustadt train station . Individual war gaps in the Hechtviertel were closed with residential rows from the 1960s. The area between the Elbe and Großenhainer Straße is predominantly characterized by abandoned commercial properties.

Quarters

Hechtviertel

The Hechtviertel is located between the railway systems of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway in the southwest, Stauffenbergallee in the north and the railway systems of the Saxon-Silesian Railway in the east, which separate the district from the Outer Neustadt. The architecture of the Äußere Neustadt with its buildings from the late 19th century is largely continued in the Hechtviertel.

Housing estate Hansastraße (Hansa development)

The largest residential complex in the Leipzig suburb contains around 500 apartments and is located on both sides of Hansastrasse. As a closed development, the size of the residential complex is unique for Dresden. The length of the closed houses on both streets is more than 250 meters. The part to the west of Hansastrasse is built like a triangle with a spacious inner courtyard, on the other side of the street is a similar row of houses more than 200 meters long. In total, the ensemble has more than 50 houses with two closed residential complexes.

Scheunenhofviertel

Location of the Scheunenhof district and the Inner Neustädter Friedhof in relation to the Leipzig and Silesian train stations in 1852

The Scheunenhofviertel is limited greatly extending the railway facilities of the arc from south to north and from the train station Dresden-Neustadt outgoing Leipzig-Dresden railway and the Hansastraße in the West. Striking streets and squares border the district in the east with Bischofsplatz and Dammweg and in the north with Gutschmidstrasse. It contains the Inner Neustädter Friedhof and the so-called Drewag site . The architecture of the district today is mainly characterized by residential buildings from the last quarter of the 19th century.

Culture

Attractions

Neo-Gothic St. Petri Church
Ruins of the St. Pauli Church
Inner Neustädter Friedhof
St. Pauli Cemetery
Villa Martha , Leipziger Straße 43, representative villa from 1871/1872 in the style of the Italian neo-renaissance by the builders Gebrüder Ziller
Grumbtsche Villa , Alexander-Pushkin-Platz 1, representative villa from 1888 in the style of the Italian Neo-Renaissance

architecture

The Leipzig suburb has a number of cultural monuments. Since the district is largely in the Neustadt district, these can be found in the following articles:

Cultural venues

Old slaughterhouse

AZ Conni

Chemical plant

Freiraum Elbtal eV

Nubeatz Club

Theater ruin St. Pauli (ruins of the St. Pauli Church in the Hechtviertel)

Pushkin

traffic

The Leipziger Strasse is radially through three and a tangentially extending tram line and a bus line quite well developed. In addition, other lines border the district.

The district is connected to the rail network via the nearby Dresden-Neustadt train station . In the district, the opened March 2016 breakpoint is Dresden Bischofsplatz the S-Bahn Dresden (S1 Meissen-Schöna).

Leipzig train station

The Leipzig train station was originally the end point of the Leipzig – Dresden railway line , and around 1900 it was converted into a freight station .

Neustadt harbor

Statue porter at the harbor

The Neustädter Elbhafen was built from 1872 to 1876 due to increasing industrialization and to relieve the Pieschener Hafen . The port has a 380 meter long and 70 meter wide basin. The Neustädter Elbhafen was the first port in Saxony with a connection to the railway network. The port basin was expanded in 1888 and 1889 so that it could also be used as a winter port for the passenger steamers of the Saxon steamship service. In the post-war period, the port facility experienced its last heyday as a transshipment point. Later it was only used as a winter port for the passenger steamers. The harbor has been a listed building since 1993 and is to become part of an Elbe promenade in the future. The establishment of a marina is also planned. In addition, the "accommodation ship D. Pöppelmann" is located here on the former passenger ship "Pöppelmann", which can swim, but is no longer suitable for shipping.

Since December 2008, the larger than life bronze sculpture “Load carrier” by Constantin Meunier has stood by the harbor basin , which originally stood behind the hotels on Prager Strasse . Similar figures by Meunier can be found in Frankfurt am Main at the Friedensbrücke ( Der Hafenarbeiter ) and in Antwerp ( Dokwerker ).

In 2010 a master plan for the Leipzig suburb - Neustädter Hafen was presented to redesign the area.