Leipzig Eilenburg train station
The Eilenburger Bahnhof was a train station in Leipzig , which served from 1874 to 1942 as a passenger station on the Leipzig – Eilenburg railway line .
history
In the year the Eilenburg train station opened in 1874, Leipzig, with its five train stations to date, had become one of the most important railway hubs in the German Empire . In order to improve its profitability, the Halle-Sorau-Gubener Railway Company decided in 1872 to connect the trade fair city to its railway network. After lengthy negotiations, the Saxon state government granted the necessary license on December 24, 1872.
Then the construction of the route to Taucha and on to Eilenburg began without hesitation . The railway company acquired an approximately 10 hectare industrial property which, compared to the other Leipzig train stations, was located far outside the city center in the then still independent municipality of Reudnitz . The approximately 900 m long and 150 m wide railway station area was bordered by Eilenburger Strasse, Nostitzstrasse (today Reichpietschstrasse), Riebeckstrasse and Richtsweg. On November 1, 1874, rail traffic between Leipzig and Eilenburg was opened.
The two-storey station building of the Eilenburg train station was built from 1874 to 1876. The two-storey brick building designed by Richard Steche was 115 m long and 18 m wide and housed several waiting and dining rooms. The total cost was 365,000 marks.
On May 1, 1915, the long-distance traffic that had previously been handled via the Eilenburg station was integrated into the newly built Leipzig main station . From then on, the Eilenburg train station was only the departure and arrival station for local trains to and from Eilenburg. Its main function, however, was the handling of goods and express goods as well as the railroad maintenance service. The last passenger train left the station on November 2, 1942 in the direction of Taucha.
In the following years the station area was partially destroyed and the station building completely destroyed by aerial bombs during air raids . For this reason, after 1945 the facility could only be used for goods handling . From the 1960s the buildings were gradually demolished. Until about 1973, transfer trips with up to 20 cars per train were carried out to the Eilenburg station. Until the closure there was a loading ramp for Culemeyer road scooters to supply the surrounding industrial companies. The site was also used as a parking space for the construction trains of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and as a storage area for the Halle bridge maintenance facility. The last connection to the former track was the bookbinding machine works Leipzig in Anger-Crottendorf until 1994 . Shortly after the turn of the millennium, the last tracks, the switches at the Anger junction and the bridge superstructures over Zweinaundorfer Straße were expanded.
In January 1997, the Leipzig City Council decided to convert the site into a park. Then the Reudnitz district park was created, which was later named after Lene Voigt . For this purpose, footpaths and bike paths as well as sports and playgrounds were created. In under monument protection standing roundhouse a restaurant to be built. For the design of the district park, Leipzig received a prize in 2002 in the competition for the most successful “renewal of urban public spaces”, which was awarded by the Center for Contemporary Culture Barcelona and architecture centers in Paris, London, Rotterdam and Vienna.
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig, 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8
- Wolfram Sturm: Leipzig Railway Center. History from the beginning to the present. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig, 2003, ISBN 3-9807201-9-5
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 6.6 " N , 12 ° 23 ′ 43.3" E