Leutzsch

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Coat of arms of Leipzig
Leutzsch
district of Leipzig
Coordinates 51 ° 20 ′ 52 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 50"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 52 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 50"  E.
surface 4.53 km²
Residents 10,427 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density 2302 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 04179
prefix 0341
Borough Old West
Transport links
railroad Leipzig – Weißenfels
Train S 1
tram 7th
bus 67, 80
Source: statistik.leipzig.de

Leutzsch is a district in the north-west of Leipzig in the city district Alt-West . It was an independent municipality until it was incorporated in 1922. Leutzsch is characterized by residential areas from the Wilhelminian era , an Art Nouveau villa colony and mostly disused industrial plants.

location

Leutzsch is about 5 kilometers west-northwest of Leipzig city center. It borders on Lindenau in the south (with Prießnitzstraße, the Lindenau cemetery and Merseburger Straße as the border), in the west on Böhlitz-Ehrenberg (border on Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße, Leutzsch train station, Am Ritterschlößchen and Am Sportpark). The Leipzig riparian forest borders in the north and east , with the Leutzscher Holz , the Burgaue , the Nahle and the Kleiner Luppe . A little north of Leutzsch lies the Auensee , which belongs to the neighboring district of Wahren . The commercial area on Schomburgkstraße is in the Leutzsch district , but is included in the statistical district of Neulindenau .

history

Development as a village

Leutzsch village church around 1850

The place name is of Slavic origin: Łuč'e is derived from łuka , which means 'meadow' in Old Sorbian . The settlement has probably existed since the Old Sorbian conquest in the 8th century. The original village center was on today's street Am Tanzplan. In the 11th century, German farmers also settled here. The village was first mentioned under the name Luszh in 1285 when Margrave Friedrich Tuta von Landsberg sold it to the Bishop of Merseburg . Ten years later he enfeoffed the knight Heinricus de Lvitz (Heinrich von Leutzsch) with the Leutzsch saddle farm . A Marienkapelle was raised to the village church of St. Laurentius in 1397 .

Leutzsch on a map from 1879

From 1539 the council of the city of Leipzig held the lordship in Leutzsch. From a administrative point of view, however, from 1562 this was subordinate to the Schkeuditz Office in the Merseburg Monastery . This, in turn, had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . The population was given as 23 man possessed in 1562 . Swedish troops burned the village down during the Thirty Years War.

Instead of the old manor, a mansion was built around 1700, which was surrounded by a moat and therefore bore the popular name "Wasserschloss" (demolished in 1970, the area is now designed as a park). In 1764 Leutsch recorded 15⅔ hooves land and 36 obsessed husband and 8 cottagers . Through the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the western part of the Schkeuditz office was ceded to Prussia in 1815. Leutzsch remained with the eastern part of the Kingdom of Saxony and was incorporated into the Leipzig district office. In 1834 Leutzsch had 402 inhabitants.

Industrial community

Leutzsch town hall, 2007

From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Leipzig II and from 1875 to the administrative authority Leipzig . In 1873 Leutzsch got a railway connection through the Leipzig – Zeitz railway line. In the period that followed, numerous factories were built in an industrial belt along the Zeitz railway between today's Georg-Schwarzstrasse and Merseburger Strasse, including the piano mechanics factory founded by Franz Flemming in 1874 and a steam sawmill built by the Julius Blüthner piano factory in 1888 . As a result of the industrial revolution and the expansion of the nearby city of Leipzig, the population increased explosively at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century: In 1871, Leutzsch had 999 inhabitants, in 1890 there were 2,509 and twenty years later 12,327. The development with multi-storey apartment buildings in the Wilhelminian style sprawled from neighboring Lindenau, which belonged to Leipzig from 1891, along today's Georg-Schwarz- and William-Zipperer-Strasse to Leutzsch.

In line with the population growth, a new school was built in 1891, which was expanded until 1908 (today the 157th elementary school and high school on Georg-Schwarz-Straße). In 1899, Leutzsch also got a connection to the network of the Great Leipzig tram , at the terminus in 1908 the Leutzsch tram station went into operation. The Leutzsch town hall built in 1904 (designed by Pfeifer & Handel ) and numerous industrialist villas in Art Nouveau style on some park-like properties testify to the prosperity of the community at that time. One of the most famous is the villa of the suitcase manufacturer Anton Mädler in today's Hans-Driesch-Straße , which was built in 1902 based on a design by Julius Zeißig . The Art Nouveau architect Paul Möbius also designed several villas in Leutzsch.

Leutzsch as a district of Leipzig

Residential complex on Heimteichstrasse

The former rural community of Leutzsch, part of the Leipzig District Authority with more than 15,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​6.8 km², was incorporated into Leipzig in 1922. On the Pfingstweide in the north of Leutzsch (between Heimteichstrasse and Hellerstrasse), the city of Leipzig had a communal settlement with 330 residential units built from 1925 to 1930 based on designs by Carl James Bühring and Hubert Ritter .

The villa colony was also considered a preferred residential area in the GDR era - and is still considered today - here, for example, the painter Bernhard Heisig and the conductor Kurt Masur lived . Most of the Wilhelminian style apartment buildings, however, were left to decay. The Georg-Schwarz-Straße was also unattractive because of the heavy traffic and was already characterized by vacancies towards the end of the GDR period and increasingly after 1990. The Leutzsch industrial companies were almost without exception shut down after German reunification at the latest. Some of the empty factory buildings were converted for cultural purposes, but a large part is still fallow.

After Leutzsch experienced a significant population decline in the 1990s (like Leipzig as a whole), the number of inhabitants has risen continuously since the mid-2000s. After a low of 8,166 inhabitants in 2001, the number of 10,452 inhabitants was reported in 2019.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Herr von Leutzsch shows a linden tree with roots and a crown, surrounded by two five-petalled roses. Until 1890 it was the municipal coat of arms. It can still be seen today at the entrance to the Leutzsch town hall.

Infrastructure

traffic

Leipzig-Leutzsch train station

The Leipzig-Leutzsch train station is located in the district on the Leipzig – Großkorbetha railway line , and the station was the terminus of the Merseburg – Leipzig-Leutzsch railway line .

In the course of the reorganization of the S-Bahn traffic with the commissioning of the Leipzig City Tunnel , the Leipzig-Leutzsch station was combined with the former industrial area West stop to form a new station on Georg-Schwarz-Straße. S-Bahn traffic was suspended until December 2013, while the RB 125 line to Weißenfels has been using the new stopping point since 2012. Since December 2015, the regional rail services have been provided by Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland and connected via Naumburg (Saale) to Erfurt.

Tram depot

The tram line 7 crosses on the Georg-Schwarz-Straße the district from west to east. The tram line, which ran through Rathenaustraße to the old train station from 1899, was replaced in 2001 by the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe with bus route 67. The tram depot at the former terminus of line 27 is still in use.

The bus route 80 touches Leutzsch in the west.

For individual traffic, Leutzsch can be reached via the A 9 , exit Leipzig-West, and from there the B 181 (Leipzig – Merseburg).

trade

Leutzsch arcades

The Leutzsch Arkaden shopping center was opened in 2004 near the town hall .

schools

  • 157th school (elementary school)
  • School at Leutzscher Holz (elementary school)
  • School Georg-Schwarz-Straße (secondary school)

Buildings

Important buildings in Leutzsch are:

Numerous buildings, especially residential houses from the Wilhelminian era and Art Nouveau villas, are registered cultural monuments.

  • St. Lawrence Church

  • St. Theresa Church

  • Administrative Court of Leipzig

  • Pianoforte-Mechanik-Fabrik HF Flemming

  • Girl's villa

  • Water tower of the former Lacufa works

Culture

Theater factory Saxony

The former culture house of the VEB paint and lacquer factory Leipzig was used from 2001/2003 to 2013 by an off-theater , the Theater-Fabrik-Sachsen , and then converted into condominiums and sold by Instone.

Sports

Alfred Kunze Sports Park

Today's Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark (until 1992 Georg-Schwarz-Sportpark) was inaugurated in 1920 by the then still independent municipality of Leutzsch. TuRa Leipzig played here in the 1930s and 40s , which was already rivaling the Probstheidaer VfB Leipzig . From 1950 the Leutzscher Stadium was the home of the BSG Chemie Leipzig , which won the GDR championship in 1951 and 1964. After 1990, FC Sachsen Leipzig continued the green and white tradition of Leutzsch football. After the bankruptcy of FC Sachsen in 2011 , BSG Chemie Leipzig , which was initially re-established as a development association and to maintain trademark rights, took over gaming operations in the Alfred Kunze Sports Park. Your 1st men's team has been playing in the Regionalliga Nordost since 2019 . Alongside traditional local rivals 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and RB Leipzig, founded in 2009, the club is one of the three major soccer clubs in Leipzig.

The table tennis club LTTV Leutzscher Füchse in 1990 was promoted to the women's first division in 2011/12, making the district known nationwide and internationally in professional circles.

Daughters and sons of the district

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Leutzsch. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 74.

Web links

Commons : Leutzsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inge Bily: Geographical names and their formation. In: Landscapes in Germany Online , 06/2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d Leutzsch . In: Vera Denzer, Andreas Dix, Haik Thomas Porada (eds.): Leipzig. A regional study in the Leipzig area. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, pp. 388–395, on p. 390.
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  4. ↑ a b Leutzsch , in: Digital Historical Directory of Saxony .
  5. ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900
  6. ↑ a b c Leutzsch . In: Vera Denzer, Andreas Dix, Haik Thomas Porada (eds.): Leipzig. A regional study in the Leipzig area. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, pp. 388–395, on p. 394.
  7. ↑ Leutzsch . In: Vera Denzer, Andreas Dix, Haik Thomas Porada (eds.): Leipzig. A regional study in the Leipzig area. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, pp. 388–395, on p. 391.
  8. ↑ Leutzsch district profile . Leipzig information system.
  9. ↑ Instone: Theaterfabrik Leipzig, 1.BA | Condominiums. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Leipziger Theaterfabrik is converted into apartments. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .