Mockau
 district of Leipzig |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 22 '25 " N , 12 ° 24' 35" E |
| surface | 5.84 km² |
| Residents | 15,747 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density | 2696 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation | 1915 |
| Post Code | 04357 |
| prefix | 0341 |
| Borough | Northeast |
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| Federal road | 2m |
| Train | S 4 |
| tram | 1, 34 |
| bus | 70, 80, 81, 82, 85 |
| Source: statistik.leipzig.de | |
Mockau is a district of Leipzig which , according to the municipal structure, belongs to the north-east district and is divided into the districts Mockau-Nord and Mockau-Süd. Neighboring towns are Seehausen , Wiederitzsch , Thekla , Eutritzsch , Abtnaundorf and Schönefeld . Mockau is surrounded by many allotment gardens and adjacent recreational areas and has thus become a green district.
history
The history of human settlement can be traced back to 1000 to 800 BC through the discovery of Germanic urn graves on the banks of the Parthe . Trace back to BC. Today it is considered certain that Mockau was built by farmers around 1200 as a street village in the damp Partheauen in the course of the eastern colonization . The name of the district, which is derived from the Slavic mokry for wet, humid , also indicates the special settlement area . A testimony to the early history of the village is the Stephanuskirche, which still exists today and was built as a fortified church in the 12th century and subsequently redesigned several times.
Before the Reformation , half of the village and the manor belonged to the Augustinian canons of St. Thomas in Leipzig and half to the von Pflugk family , and then mostly merchant families from nearby Leipzig. During the Thirty Years War , Mockau and its people were badly affected. In 1636, during the siege of Leipzig by the Swedes, the plague raged in the village, on March 25, 1640 it burned down in part during the battle between the Electorate of Saxony and the Swedish troops. Since the village was given the right to hire a schoolmaster in 1685, regular classes have taken place. During the Second Silesian War in Mockau the city of Leipzig was handed over to the commander of the Prussian troops, Leopold I. Finally, the village was plundered and set on fire.
Mockau also played an important role during the Battle of the Nations : parts of the Silesian army crossed the Parthe near the village to attack the French troops in Pfaffendorf. The attack was led by Field Marshal Blücher , who took up quarters in the village windmill . With the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the northern boundary of Mockau became the Saxon-Prussian border. Until 1856 Mockau belonged to the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . In 1844 the village had 368 inhabitants. In the 1850s the industrialization of the place began, which is still characteristic of the appearance of Mockau today. Since 1875 Mockau was part of the Leipzig administration . In 1915 the place was incorporated into Leipzig. Especially in the 1930s, Mockau and the surrounding area saw an enormous increase in population due to the settlement of armaments factories.
The current residential area in Mockau is divided into two parts, Mockau-North and Mockau-South , due to the route of the former Wahren-Schönefeld connecting railway . Due to the numerous allotment gardens, Mockau is a comparatively green district that is bordered by the Parthenaue in the east and by numerous artificial biotopes in the north .
Attractions
- Stephanuskirche
Mockau's village church, which dates from the 12th century, was built in the Romanesque style . The raised, strong boulders on the choir side suggests that the church was originally a choir tower church. In 1787 and 1841 the nave and choir were fundamentally redesigned and the sacristy and mansion boxes were built. The classicistic character of the interior of the church has been clearly evident since the last restoration between 1968 and 1971. In 1990 the exterior was renovated. The ringing of the Stephanuskirche consists of 3 bells, the oldest of which dates from the 15th century. The two younger ones were in 1576 and 1578 by Wolf Hillinger the Elder. J. from Freiberg created. The organ with two manuals and 13 registers was built in 1897 by the Leipzig organ builder Gottfried Hildebrand . The church has been called Stephanuskirche since 1926.
- Water tower
In 1907/08 the water tower on Tauchaer Strasse in Mockau-Nord was built according to plans by the Dresden civil engineer and government master builder Gleitmann for the water supply to Alt-Mockau. In 1925 the water tower was technically rebuilt with a larger water basin and a new hood. The tower height of 65 m was shortened by 7 m according to a design by Carl James Bühring and Hubert Ritter . After the water tower was decommissioned in 1996, the water tank was removed from the dome and the dilapidated wooden hood was placed next to the tower. The tower roof was closed with wood. A planned renovation of the water tower did not take place. Instead, the waterworks sold the listed building to KletterTurm Mockau GmbH in 2001 following a tender. With a clearance height of 30.5 m, it offers the highest artificial indoor climbing wall in Europe.
- Mockauer Post
According to plans by the Leipzig architect Alfred Spaete, a new post office was built in 1915/16 on the corner of Mockauer Strasse and Essener Strasse. The building in neo-renaissance style is located in the center of the district in an exposed location and is a listed building . Until 1993, the Deutsche Bundespost operated its largest branch in the north-east of Leipzig on the ground floor. Then, after the change of ownership, the house fell into disrepair until 2016, a new buyer, Saba-Bau GmbH & Co.KG, pushed ahead with a renovation in line with historic monuments and let the former splendid building shine again. There is now a pharmacy on the ground floor, the other floors are used for residential purposes. Although no post office moved into the building after the renovation, the name of the stop, Mockau Post , was retained.
- Weidenhofsiedlung
In 1919–1924, the first communal settlement, intended especially for large working-class families , was built according to plans by the architect and town planning officer Carl James Bühring - later called the Weidenhofsiedlung. According to the list of monuments, it is of European importance in terms of social history and architectural history. The 163 two-storey small houses are provided with garden parcels, some grouped in a horseshoe shape, whereby the red brick used defines the aesthetic quality of this listed estate.
- Historic bridges
Mockau has three historical arch bridges :
1. Railway bridge on the Parthe , built in 1903, yellow clinker barrel using sandstone, technical monument;
2. Railway bridge over the Parthe, built in 1903, concrete barrel, on the parcels Thekla and Mockau, technical monument;
3. Pedestrian bridge over the New Parthe, built in the 1930s, also called Katzenbuckel, individual monument, of architectural importance
education
- schools
Mockau has four schools, of which the Waldorf School is a private sponsor .
| Built | location | development |
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| 1885 | Kieler Strasse 72 b | 23. Elementary school, middle school, 1992 F.-A. Brockhaus High School |
| 1952 | Rosenowstrasse 60 | Vocational auxiliary school, 2016 Vocational School Center, from 2019 renamed Robert-Blum-Schule - Vocational School Center of the City of Leipzig |
| 1957 | Berthastrasse 15 | earlier 11th school, from 2000 Free Waldorf School Leipzig |
| 1977 | Rosenowstrasse 56 | built as the 66th polytechnic high school , from 1992 66th elementary school |
- Library
The Mockau district library is located in the immediate vicinity of the Mockauer Post in the Mockau-Post-Passage built in the 1990s opposite the Leipzig-Mockau-Center. The library was opened in 1999 with an area of 300 m² and has a children's library in a separate room for rummaging as well as a senior citizens' café.
Sports facilities (selection)
- Gontardweg sports complex
On Gontardweg in Mockau-Süd is the RB Leipzig training grounds (women's football) run by RB Leipzig and the Saxony performance center under the direction of RB Leipzig.
- Sports field facility on the Parthe
In Mockau-Südost, the system is operated by the soccer club SV Lok Leipzig Nordost e. V. used.
- Fitness studio in the Berliner Brücke commercial park
The FitX fitness studio was built in 2016 on the former site of Germany's oldest wool combing facility in what is now the Berliner Brücke industrial park . The studio is open around the clock and has seven training areas.
Airport and source shipping center
In 1913 - 14 years before the airport in Schkeuditz opened - Leipzig-Mockau Airport was opened as an airship port and airfield in Leipzig . During the First and Second World Wars, production facilities for the aircraft defense industry existed here. The airport served as a trade fair airport from 1949 to 1962, and then as a commercial airport until 1972. Subsequently, until the closure in 1991, the area was used by Interflug's agricultural airfield and GST's sports airfield . The runway had a length of 1560 meters.
The terminal building of the former Leipzig-Mockau airport, built in 1929 and expanded by a tower in 1955, as well as the former pilot's home from 1913 still exist .
On May 31, 1991, flight operations ceased and the construction of the Quelle shipping center from 1991 to 1995, with an investment volume of around DM 1 billion, was one of the largest investment projects in the East German federal states. The 2.2 million m² building complex housed the largest and most modern shipping center in the world (high-bay warehouse: 185 m long, 128 m wide; incoming goods building 225 m long, 43 m wide). The first delivery of a package took place on February 20, 1995. Around 95% of the total shipping services for housewares that could be packaged were processed from the Leipzig dispatch center.
After the parent company of Quelle, Arcandor , applied for the opening of insolvency proceedings in June 2009 , the dispatch center had to close that same year.
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Mockau. 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. 89.
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 .
- Vera Denzer, Andreas Dix, Haik Thomas Porada: Leipzig, landscapes in Germany. Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22299-4 .
- Christoph Kühn, Harald Otto: Timeline Mockau, In Partheland between Leipzig, Taucha and Borsdorf, PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-936508-01-1 .
- Mockau - A historical and urban study . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 1999
Web links
- Mockau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Information website My district of the city of Leipzig for Mockau
- Everything about Mockau
- Site of the climbing tower
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , pp. 60 f.
- ^ History. In: KletterTurm. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ^ Monument document. In: State Office for Monument Preservation. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Alte Mockauer Post shines like new. In: LVZ on May 27, 2020, S, 18
- ↑ List entry. In: Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ A model settlement along the way. In: Internet newspaper Leipzig. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
- ^ Schools in Mockau. In: City of Leipzig. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
- ^ Free Waldorf School Leipzig. In: Association of the Waldorf School Community. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
- ^ Mockau library. In: City Library. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
- ^ Leipzig-Mockau-Center. In: Insider tip LMC. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
- ↑ women's team. In: The Red Bulls. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
- ↑ The commercial area at the Berliner Brücke is filling up. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
- ^ Fitness studio Leipzig Mockau-Süd. In: FitX. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
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