Leipzig west

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The west of Leipzig describes the districts of Plagwitz , Lindenau (including Alt- and Neulindenau ) and parts of Kleinzschocher and Leutzsch in the geographic west of Leipzig , which are characterized by the transformation processes of industrialization and de - industrialization .

development

Westwerk, Leipzig
Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig south side 2016

From 1856 onwards, the Leipzig entrepreneur Karl Heine industrialized parts of the Plagwitz, Lindenau and Kleinzschocher districts with the connection to the Prussian-Saxon railway, amelioration of marshland and construction of the navigable Karl-Heine Canal with connection to the White Elster . From 1888 to 1945, the Leipzig Westend construction company founded by Karl Heine was responsible for the structural development of the west of Leipzig.

Before 1990, the west of Leipzig was the location with the highest inner-city industrial density in Europe. With the liquidation of almost all local industrial companies by the Treuhandanstalt , which began in 1990, many industrial plants, some of them from the Wilhelminian era, were orphaned. From the 2000s onwards, private initiatives by architects, designers and artists created art quarters , offspaces and art galleries.

The resettlement began with the revitalization of brownfield sites and the Karl Heine Canal as part of the Expo 2000 , often financially supported by funding programs from the state of Saxony , Germany and the EU .

The west of Leipzig is considered to be the new cultural and creative nucleus of Germany with a high level of international attraction for students, creative people, innovative companies and young families. Plagwitz and Lindenau were the districts with the strongest population growth in Leipzig in 2012/13 (6.5 and 6.1 percent per year, respectively). The west of Leipzig was defined by the city as a support area for urban renewal . Funding is provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF).

Cultural locations (selection)

Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig
Old trading school, Leipzig
Dietzoldwerke, Leipzig

Private neighborhood developers (selection)

Actions

  • West visit and West package
  • Western culture (visitor guidance system in the west of Leipzig)
  • BoHei & hoopla
  • Lights from the West

Relocation pressures

Since 2016 there has been a public debate about the pressure to relocate ( gentrification ) on creatives and artists in the west of Leipzig. In February 2017 the protest platform "Westwerk rescue" organized a demonstration for the cultural preservation of the Westwerk.

Web links

  • Leipziger-Westen.de - Website of the Office for Housing and Urban Renewal
  • Wunderwesten - the artists Petra Mattheis and Sascha Nau portray people from the west of Leipzig

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leipzig: Plagwitz (workshop city). In: www.werkstatt-stadt.de. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Public Relations Department: Funding Database - Funding Search. In: www.foerderdatenbank.de. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .
  3. ^ Pia Volk: Leipzig: Structure West . In: The time . October 26, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 30, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Christina Schmitt, Wolfgang Amann: Gentrification in Leipzig? Data and analysis. In: EinundLeipzig , December 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ Funded areas in the west of Leipzig. City of Leipzig, accessed on August 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ : Initiative citizen station Plagwitz (IBBP) News - Civil Station Plagwitz. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  7. ^ Irene Finke: Home - Hofkultur-West. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Dietzoldwerke LEIPZIG. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Detail - German Literature Institute Leipzig. Retrieved January 28, 2017 .
  10. ^ Wonder vest: René Reinhardt in the wonder vest . In: Wunderwesten . ( wunderwesten.de [accessed on January 11, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Artists' area: old cotton spinning mill as a center for creative people - WORLD. Retrieved January 28, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Bert Endruszeit: Lots of space for creative people - Former municipal vocational schools are being transformed into an artists' quarter . Ed .: Leipziger Volkszeitung. LVZ, Leipzig January 20, 2012, p. 5 .
  13. ↑ Wonder vest: Jana Reichenbach Behnisch in the wonder vest . In: Wunderwesten . ( Wunderwesten.de [accessed December 24, 2016]).
  14. ↑ Housing Association Central LS W33. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Home | Westbesuch eV In: www.westbesuch.com. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Westpaket - art, culture & junk in Leipzig. In: www.leipzig-leben.de. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Now also a guide to the 'western culture' - city of Leipzig. In: www.leipzig.de. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Light plays of the west | Bohei Tamtam Leipzig 2017. Retrieved on January 11, 2018 (German).
  19. ↑ Light plays of the west | Bohei Tamtam Leipzig 2017. Retrieved on January 11, 2018 (German).
  20. ^ (After) debate on gentrification in the west of Leipzig - Marco Böhme. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 17, 2017 ; accessed on January 27, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / marco.linxxnet.de
  21. ↑ LVZ-Online: Reaction to the “Westwerk rescue” initiative - Administrator of the Leipzig Westwerk: Will not destroy the character - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  22. ↑ LVZ-Online: Fear of changes in Leipzig-West - Westwerk administrator: Sublab termination was not kicked out - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  23. ↑ LVZ-Online: “Westwerk rescue” - Almost a thousand people demonstrate for the preservation of free spaces in Leipzig - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .