Magdeburg streets / L
In the following, the meanings and circumstances of naming Magdeburg streets and their history are shown. Currently valid street names are given in bold , names that are no longer valid after renaming or building over are given in italics . As far as possible, existing or former institutions, monuments, special buildings or well-known residents are listed.
The list does not initially claim to be complete.
Laassstrasse ; District of New Town ; ZIP 39124
- Formerly: Eisenbahnstrasse
- This street could be named after the Magdeburg factory owner Hermann Laaß . At the end of the 19th century, Laaß was also involved in charitable purposes. So he donated a bridge in Rotehornpark , the Laaßbrücke .
Ladeburger Weg ; District Berliner Chaussee ; ZIP 39114
- This street was named after the east of Gommern in Saxony-Anhalt located village Ladeburg named.
Landsbergstrasse ; District of Stadtfeld Ost ; ZIP 39108
- Formerly:
- Today:
- Albert-Vater-Strasse (since 1964)
- This street was named after the SPD politician and Reich Justice Minister Otto Landsberg and was renamed in 1964. Today's namesake, Albert Vater , was charged with treason in 1921 for taking hostage at Landsberg in April 1919. Father took his own life in custody in 1923.
Landwehrstrasse ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Today: Virchowstrasse
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Rural desert road ; District Fermersleben ; ZIP 39122
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Langankestrasse ; Northwest district ; ZIP 39128
- Today: Stefan-Zweig-Weg
- This street was named after the German pilot and employee of the Junkers factories William Langanke . Various streets in this district originally bore the names of employees of the aircraft manufacturer Junkers. It was renamed during the GDR era .
Long Lake ; Industrial harbor district ; ZIP 39126
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Langefelder Weg ; Northwest district ; ZIP 39128
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Langemarckstrasse ; District Stadtfeld West ; ZIP 39110
- Today: Haverlaher Strasse
- This street was named after the Belgian town of Langemarck , in the vicinity of which fighting took place during the First World War . The naming is to be seen in connection with the myth of Langemarck .
Langensteiner Weg ; Ottersleben district ; ZIP 39116
- This street was named after the town of Langenstein , southeast of Halberstadt .
Langenweddinger Strasse ; Westerhüsen district ; ZIP 39122
- Named after the town of Langenweddingen south of Magdeburg .
Long blow ; District Neustadt field ; ZIP 39128
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Long way ; District Sudenburg ; ZIP 39112
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- Well-known people who lived here:
- Bruno Beye , painter and graphic artist, lived here around 1950 in house number 67 .
- Well-known people who lived here:
Langfuhrer Strasse ; Kannenstieg district ; ZIP 39128
- Today: Loitscher Weg
- The street was named in 1936 after the Langfuhr district of Gdańsk , today it is called Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz and belongs to Poland . In 1951, during the GDR era , it was renamed. Names of places from which the German population had been expelled after the Second World War or which no longer belonged to Germany should no longer appear. It was one of the three streets of the " Danziger Dorf " settlement , this name also disappeared in 1951, but is now a tram stop again .
Lärchenstrasse ; Hopfengarten district ; ZIP 39120
- Named after the larch plant genus .
Lassallestrasse ; District Cracau ; ZIP 39114
- Formerly:
- Bölckestrasse
- Legienstrasse
- Fritz-Heckert-Strasse
- This street was named after the workers' leader Ferdinand Lassalle .
Arbor private path ; District Berliner Chaussee ; ZIP 39114
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Lauestrasse ; District of New Town ; ZIP 39124
- Named after the German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max von Laue .
Lavender path ; Ottersleben district ; ZIP 39116
- This street was named after the plant species real lavender , which is also used as a medicinal herb .
Lebersdorfer Strasse ; District Old Olvenstedt ; ZIP 39130
- Lebersdorfer Straße was named after the town of Lebersdorf , which, however, has become deserted and no longer exists today. Lebersdorf was southeast of Olvenstedt. Desolations in the Alt Olvenstedt area were the inspiration for several names, including Ostendorfer and Wisninger Straße and Plachwitzer Weg.
Lederstrasse ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Today: Leiterstrasse (since 1750)
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Legienstrasse ; District Cracau ; ZIP 39114
- Formerly: Bölckestrasse
- Later: Fritz-Heckert-Strasse
- Today: Lassallestrasse
- This street was named after the German union leader Carl Legien .
Leibnizstrasse ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Formerly: Bismarckstrasse
- This street was named after the philosopher and scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .
Leimer private road ; District of New Town Lake ; ZIP 39126
- Today: Heideweg
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Leineweberstrasse ; Brückfeld district ; ZIP 39114
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Leipziger Chaussee ; Districts Reform , Leipziger Straße , Hopfengarten , Beyendorf-Sohlen and Beyendorfer Grund ; ZIP 39118 and 39120
- This street was, as an extension of Leipziger Straße , the long-distance road from Magdeburg in the direction of Leipzig and was given its name.
Leipziger Strasse ; Districts of Sudenburg and Leipziger Strasse ; ZIP 39112 and 39120
- This street represented the main road from Magdeburg in the direction of Leipzig and was given its name.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House No. 9 , Rayon House , residential building, built in 1887.
- House No. 44 , Surgical Clinic , former Sudenburg Hospital, built from 1874 to 1876.
- House No. 44 , University Clinic and Medical Faculty of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg .
- House number 47 , chapel on the south cemetery , cemetery chapel, built in 1926, architect Johannes Göderitz .
- House No. 58 , Telekom administration building , office building, built in 1997.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
Ladder road ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Formerly: Lederstraße (until 1750)
- The current name "Leiterstrasse" is probably based on a misunderstanding. In Low German , "Ledder" means ladder and "dat ledder" means leather. After 1750 the wrong "translation" of the name prevailed as a street name and has been preserved until today. As one of the few streets in Magdeburg's inner city, Leiterstrasse remained largely undamaged during World War II. Nevertheless, in the 1970s and 1980s, the old building was demolished and by a 1977 newly built until 1989 pedestrian zone with DDR - prefabricated replaced.
In 2003, at the insistence of the CDU parliamentary group, there were plans to name the square in the eastern part of Leiterstrasse after Charles de Gaulle . However, the proposal met with strong criticism and was not implemented. Later it was named after de Gaulle elsewhere.
- Well-known people who lived here:
- Karl Fischer , painter, lived here in house no.20.
- Well-known people who lived here:
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House No. 9 , former Luisenschule , built between 1846 and 1848.
- Fauna fountain
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
Leitzkauer Weg ; Districts Berliner Chaussee and Cracau ; ZIP 39114
- Named after the north-west of Zerbst in Saxony-Anhalt located village Leitzkau .
Lemsdorfer Strasse ; Ottersleben district ; ZIP 39116
- Today: Gernröder Strasse
- This road leads from Ottersleben towards Lemsdorf and was therefore originally named after this village.
Lemsdorfer Weg ; District Sudenburg ; ZIP 39112
- The Lemsdorfer Weg is named after the nearby village of Lemsdorf , which was incorporated into Magdeburg in 1910 . The path presented itself as a connection between Sudenburg and Lemsdorf.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House No. 21/23 , Volksbad Sudenburg , built 1890/1891.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
Lenaustraße ; Herrenkrug district ; ZIP 39114
- The street is named after the Austrian Biedermeier writer Nikolaus Lenau .
Lennéstrasse ; District Leipziger Strasse ; ZIP 39112
- Named after the German landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- Memorial stone for Jean Burger , a French communist resistance fighter against National Socialism . The neighboring Jean-Burger Straße is named after Jean Burger .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
Lentkestrasse ; Ottersleben district ; ZIP 39116
- This street was probably named after the mayor of Magdeburg and Benneckenbeck landowner Stephan von Lentke .
Leopoldshaller Strasse ; District Leipziger Strasse ; ZIP 39112
- Named after the village of Leopoldshall, east of Staßfurt in Saxony-Anhalt .
Leopold-von-Ranke-Strasse ; District Sudenburg ; ZIP 39116
- Today: Saefkowstrasse - until 1954 Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse
- This street, which originally belonged to Ottersleben, was named after the German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886).
Leopoldstrasse ; District of New Town ; ZIP 39124
- Today: Bremer Straße
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Lerchenhain private road ; District Berliner Chaussee ; ZIP 39114
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Larkwuhne ; Districts of Northwest and Neustädter Feld ; ZIP 39128
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Lessingplatz ; District of Stadtfeld Ost ; ZIP 39108
- This square at the intersection of Lessingstrasse, Arndtstrasse and Wilhelm-Külz-Strasse was unnamed for more than 100 years, although the character of a square actually existed. In 2005, the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen requested that the square be named after Heinrich Böll . There was resistance to this, as the square was popularly referred to as Lessingplatz based on Lessingstrasse. The Alliance Greens withdrew their application. Instead, it received the name Lessingplatz after the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing at the request of the Citizens for Magdeburg / Animal Welfare Party by a city council resolution on July 11, 2005 .
Lessingstrasse ; District of Stadtfeld Ost ; ZIP 39108
- Named after the writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .
Letzlinger Strasse ; District of Old Town ; ZIP 39106
- Named after the village of Letzlingen ( Altmark ) in Saxony-Anhalt .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House No. 7-10 , cooperative building , oldest building of a building cooperative in Magdeburg, built in 1895/1896.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
Leuschnerstrasse ; Districts Cracau and Prester ; ZIP 39114
- Formerly: Kommodore-Bonte-Strasse
- This street was named after the social democratic politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism Wilhelm Leuschner .
Leutweinweg ; District Neustadt field ; ZIP 39128
- Today: Süplinger Weg
- This street was named after the governor of German South West Africa Theodor Leutwein .
Dragonfly path ; Hopfengarten district ; ZIP 39120
- Formerly: Brüxer Strasse
- Named after the order of the insect dragonflies .
Lichtenbergstrasse ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Formerly: Seydlitzstrasse
- Today: Sternstrasse (southern part)
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Liebermannstrasse ; District of Stadtfeld Ost ; ZIP 39108
- Named after the German painter Max Liebermann .
Liebigstrasse ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Formerly: Tauentzienstrasse
- This street was named after the German chemist Justus von Liebig .
Liebknechtstrasse ; Neighborhoods Stadtfeld West and Stadtfeld Ost ; ZIP 39110 and 39108
- Formerly:
- Named after the social democratic politician Karl Liebknecht .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House No. 14 , Villa Toepffer , half-timbered villa , built from 1885 to 1891.
- House number 35 , Magdeburg slaughterhouse , old industrial building, built from 1889.
- House No. 65-91 , former Magdeburg armatures factory , administration building of the former armatures factory Polte , later MAW, until 2008 seat of the district court , labor court and social court , built 1915/1916.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- Well-known people who lived here:
- Richard Toepffer , industrialist, lived here from approx. 1890 to 1919 in today's house no. 14 (then Sachsenring no. 6).
- Well-known people who lived here:
Lienhardstrasse ; District of Stadtfeld Ost ; ZIP 39108
- This street was named after the German writer Friedrich Lienhard .
Liliencronstrasse ; District of Stadtfeld Ost ; ZIP 39108
- Named after the writer Detlev von Liliencron .
Lily path ; District reform ; ZIP 39118
- Named after the plant genus lilies .
Lindau private road ; District of New Town Lake ; ZIP 39126
- In the course of the construction of the new district Neustädter See in the time of the GDR in prefabricated construction, this street was built over. It was located west of Barleber Strasse, roughly in the area of today's Lumumbastrasse and Salvador-Allende-Strasse . It ran almost parallel to Barleber Straße and connected the Kleiner Kannenstieg with the Großer Kannenstieg .
Linden plan ; Hopfengarten district ; ZIP 39120
- This road, which is also lined by linden trees , is named after the linden tree species.
Lindenplatz ; District of Diesdorf ; ZIP 39110
- Today: At the monument (since 1908)
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Lindenstrasse ; District of Diesdorf ; ZIP 39110
- Today: ?
- This street was named after the tree species Linden .
Lindenstrasse ; District Ottersleben : ZIP 39116
- Today: Alt Benneckenbeck
- This street was named after the tree species Linden .
Lindenstrasse ; Rothensee district ; ZIP 39126
- Named after the tree genus Linden .
Lindenweg ; District Beyendorf soles ; ZIP 39122
- Named after the tree genus Linden .
Lindhorster Strasse ; Rothensee district ; ZIP 39126
- This street was named in 1938 after the village of Lindhorst , southeast of the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide .
Lindstedter Weg ; District Stadtfeld West ; ZIP 39110
- Named after the in Saxony-Anhalt located village Lindstedt ( Altmark ). The street belongs to the settlement of the former lignite gasoline AG ( BRABAG ), which was built from 1937.
Lingnerstrasse ; Werder district ; ZIP 39114
- Formerly: Theaterstrasse
- This street was named after the entrepreneur Karl August Lingner , who was born in Magdeburg . Lingner is the founder of the Odol brand and founded the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden
Linzer Strasse ; District Leipziger Strasse ; ZIP 39112
- This street was named in 1938 after Linz , the capital of the Austrian state of Upper Austria . Several streets in the area were named after Austrian cities ( Innsbrucker Straße , Salzburger Straße ). It ran from Fermersleber Weg to Förderstedter Strasse . In the course of the rebuilding of the area in the time of the GDR , the street was built over.
Lion-Feuchtwanger-Strasse ; District Leipziger Straße (residential Schilfbreite); ZIP 39120
- Named after the writer Lion Feuchtwanger .
Listemannstrasse ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- This street is named after the Magdeburg local politician and honorary citizen Wilhelm Ludwig Conrad Listemann .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House no. 6 , telecommunications office , built 1926/1927, above the entrance area there are many stone sculptures allegories of the postal system by Fritz Maenicke .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
Litzmannstrasse ; District Cracau ; ZIP 39114
- Later: Thälmannstrasse
- Today: Cracauer Strasse
- The street was named after the German general and later Reichstag deputy of the NSDAP, Karl Litzmann .
Loburger Weg ; Prester district ; ZIP 39114
- Named after the formerly independent town of Loburg , north of Zerbst in Saxony-Anhalt , now part of the town of Möckern .
Löderburger Strasse ; Ottersleben district ; ZIP 39116
- This street was named after the town of Löderburg , northwest of Staßfurt in Saxony-Anhalt .
Lödischehofstrasse ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Formerly:
- Bridge of Mr. Losasche
- Lösischer Hof (until approx. 1650)
- Lödischer Hof
- This road no longer exists today. It ran from the middle of the north side of today's Allee Center shopping center to the middle of the south side of the Alter Markt , parallel to Breiter Weg . During the Second World War the area was badly damaged. In the course of the reconstruction, which did not stick to the grown urban structure, the street was completely built over. In the southern area, today's Ernst-Reuter-Allee was created as a new west-east crossing of the city center. A block of flats was built in the northern section.
- The street was named after the Löde family who lived here in the 17th century . Before that, the council family Lose , later Lohse, had written their court in the same place from the 13th century until 1562 . The old names were based on the name of this family. Around 1700, the name Lödischer Hof became established .
Loitscher way ; Kannenstieg district ; ZIP 39128
- Formerly: Langfuhrer Straße (since 1936, see above).
- The road was in 1951 after the north-east of Wolmirstedt in Saxony-Anhalt located village Loitsche renamed.
- It is one of the three streets of the " Gdansk Village " settlement .
Lomeweg ; District Neustadt field ; ZIP 39128
- Today: Kehnerter Weg
- The street was named after the former capital of the German colony and later capital of Togo , Lomé .
Lorenzlust ; Northwest district ; ZIP 39128
- The street was named in 1938.
Lorenzweg ; Districts of Alte Neustadt ; New New Town and Northwest ; 39106, 39124 and 39128
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Lösischer Hof ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Formerly:
- Later:
- Lödischer Hof
- Lödischehofstrasse
This street was called Lösischer Hof until around 1650 . The council family Lose had their farm here. See: Lödischehofstrasse .
Lostauer Strasse ; District of Old Town ; ZIP 39106
- Named after the east of Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt located village of Lostau .
Lothar-Kreyssig-Strasse ; Old Town district ; ZIP 39104
- Formerly: Domstrasse (until 2001)
- This street was named after the founder of the Action atonement Lothar Kreyssig . For the history of the street, see Domstraße . The renaming goes back to the urging of the Evangelical Church. This wanted a name after Kreyssig, who had lived nearby. This proposal was discussed controversially both in the city council and in public. In particular, the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen opposed the proposal, since it would erase one of the oldest street names in the city and suggested naming another street after Lothar Kreyssig. With the votes of the CDU and SPD , however, the renaming was decided.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House No. 1 , former Reichsbank , built between 1920 and 1923
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
Lothringer Strasse ; Salbke district ; ZIP 39122
- Today: Ferdinand-Schrey-Strasse
- The street was named after the Lorraine region, which now belongs to France . It was renamed during the GDR era . Names of areas from which the German population had been expelled after the Second World War or which no longer belonged to Germany should no longer appear.
Louis Braille Street ; District reform ; ZIP 39118
- Named after the inventor of Braille, Louis Braille . The street is part of a settlement that was built from 1910 for civil servants from Friedrich Krupp AG Grusonwerk .
Löwenhardtstrasse ; District Sudenburg ; ZIP 39116
- Today: Florian-Geyer-Straße
- This street, which originally belonged to Ottersleben, was named after the German fighter pilot of the First World War, Erich Loewenhardt .
Lübeck private road ; Districts of Neue Neustadt and Neustädter Feld ; ZIP 39124 and 39128
- Named after the city of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic Sea .
Lübecker Strasse ; District of New Town ; ZIP 39124
- Named after the city of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic Sea .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House number 7 , transformer house , built in 1928 by Johannes Göderitz .
- House No. 71-73 , residential and commercial building, built in 1996/1997, awarded an architecture prize.
- House No. 126 , Stadtsparkasse head office, office building, built in 1995.
- House No. 127–129 , former diamond brewery, brewery building, built from 1863.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- Well-known people who lived here:
- Friedrich Heinrich August Mundlos , a sewing machine manufacturer, lived in house no. 8a at least at the beginning of the 20th century . The Heinrich Mundlos & Co. factory he founded was also at this address .
- Well-known people who lived here:
Lucas-Cranach-Strasse ; District Sudenburg ; ZIP 39112
- Formerly: Lukas-Cranach-Straße
- Named after the painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553). The neighboring streets (Dürerstraße, Holbeinstraße) were also named after painters of that time. The streets belong to the Schneidersgarten housing estate , which was built from 1926 onwards to designs by Carl Krayl and Maximilian Worm and is considered an example of the new will to build in the 20s of the 20th century.
Luckertstrasse ; Northwest district ; ZIP 39128
- Today: Rubensweg
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Lückestrasse ; Werder district ; ZIP 39114
- This street was named after the Magdeburg donor Ida Lücke while she was still alive.
Lüderitzstrasse ; District Leipziger Strasse ; ZIP 39112
- Today: Hertzstrasse
- This street was named after the German merchant and founder of the German Southwest Africa colony, Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz .
Ludolfstrasse ; District of Old Town ; ZIP 39106
- Today: unnamed
- This street ran from today's Walther-Rathenau-Straße over the current site of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg to Hohenstaufenring . In its southern section, the street still exists today and runs by the university library. However, it is unnamed. In the north it was built over in the course of the rebuilding that did not adhere to the grown urban structure after the Second World War. The street name should remember the Archbishop of Magdeburg Ludolf von Kroppenstedt .
Ludwig-Thoma-Strasse ; Prester district ; ZIP 39114
- Named after the German writer Ludwig Thoma .
Luisenstrasse ; District of New Town ; ZIP 39124
- Today: Wedringer Straße
- This street was named after Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz , Queen of Prussia .
Luisenthaler Strasse ; Districts of Prester and Kreuzhorst ; ZIP 39114
- This street leads from Prester in the direction of the Luisenthal settlement belonging to Pechau and thus got its name.
Lukas-Cranach-Strasse ; District Sudenburg ; ZIP 39112
- Today: Lucas-Cranach-Strasse
- The spelling of the street has been changed. (See under Lucas-Cranach-Strasse.)
Lumumbastrasse ; District of New Town Lake ; ZIP 39126
- Named after the African freedom fighter and first Prime Minister of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, Patrice E. Lumumba .
Lüneburger Strasse ; District of Old Town ; ZIP 39106
- Named after the city of Lüneburg, southeast of Hamburg in Lower Saxony .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House No. 4 , AOK , administration building of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse , built in 1926/1927 by Carl Krayl and Maximilian Worm .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
Lunochod Street ; District reform ; ZIP 39118
- This street was named after the Soviet moon mobile Lunochod . Like several streets in the neighborhood, it was named after the Soviet space program during the GDR .
Lutherstrasse ; District Sudenburg ; ZIP 39112
- The street was named after the reformer Martin Luther in 1902 . In this urban area, several streets were named after terms and people of the Reformation (Worms, Melanchthon, Amsdorf).
Lüttgen-Ottersleben ; Ottersleben district ; ZIP 39116
- Formerly: Franz-Seldte-Straße
- This street is located in the district of Klein Ottersleben ( Lüttgen-Ottersleben ), which today belongs to Ottersleben .
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- House number 8 , former distillery , built in 1861.
- House no.19 , Villa Böckelmann , a palace-like manorial villa of Wilhelm August Böckelmann , built in 1892.
- House No. 41 , Church of St. John the Baptist , Protestant church, built in the 13th century.
- Institutions, buildings, monuments:
- Well-known people who lived here:
- Erich Brose , homeland researcher, lived at least around 1939 in house number 18 on what was then Franz-Seldte Strasse.
- Well-known people who lived here:
Lüttgen-Salbker Weg ; Salbke district ; ZIP 39122
- The road leads from Salbke to the Salbker district of Lüttgen-Salbke and was therefore given its name.
Lützowstrasse ; District of Stadtfeld Ost ; ZIP 39108
- Today: Winckelmannstrasse
- The name of the street was reminiscent of the Prussian general Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow , who became known as Freiherr von Lützow through the Freikorps he led .
Luxemburgstrasse ; District Cracau ; ZIP 39114
- Formerly: Immelmannstrasse
- Named after the social democratic politician Rosa Luxemburg .