Park at the Etzoldschen sand pit
The park at the Etzoldschen Sandgrube is a park in the southeast of Leipzig with a memorial to the University Church of St. Pauli, which was blown up in 1968 . The names amusement park southeast and friendship park can also be found on city maps .
location and size
The facility is located in the Probstheida district , around five kilometers southeast of Leipzig city center. It is bordered in the southwest by Prager Strasse, in the northwest and north by Paulinerweg, the sports facilities of ATV Leipzig 1845 eV and the allotment garden "Marienhöhe", in the east by Augustinerstrasse and in the south by the development of the old village of Probstheida. The area of the park covers 10.2 hectares. The park is part of the Leipziger conservation area Etzoldsche sand pit and Rietzschketal Zweinaundorf .
history
When the construction of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal began in 1898 , a search was made for nearby sand deposits. In the corridor of the owner Etzold north of Probstheida, less than a kilometer from the monument, a sand pit was created and part of the sand was extracted for the monument. Another came by cable car from a pit southwest of Probstheida. The Etzold mine remained in operation later. After the Second World War , the site lay fallow.
In 1968 the rubble of the St. Pauli University Church, which was blown up in order to gain the building site for the main building of the Karl Marx University, and the Augusteum, which had been left to decay after the bombing of the Second World War, as well as other partially destroyed university buildings were brought into the pit. Ten years later the remains of the Markuskirche , which had been demolished and demolished, were brought into Leipzig- Reudnitz . In between and afterwards rubble from demolished buildings followed, mainly from the east of Leipzig. The pit had become a pile of debris.
In the 1980s, the design of the area into a park began. Paths have been laid out, trees have been planted and a playground has been set up. A remainder of the area was used by the premilitary society for sport and technology as a training area. The bare rubble hill was a toboggan hill and a lookout point with an informative so-called "direction stone".
Until 1989, the historically and art-historically significant ruins that rested here could not be referred to at any point. First, after the fall of the Wall, the Leipzig student community erected a wooden stele with the cross-section of a cross and the inscription "1968" in memory of the university church. In 2008, the city of Leipzig planned to permanently commemorate the events of 1968 at this point. In 2011, the memorial site was completed with funds from the economic stimulus package II .
Memorial site
The memorial is located on the uppermost plateau of the now tree-covered hill about twelve meters high. Both stairs and paths lead up. Information boards indicate the history and importance of the place.
An oval set in stone, two steps lower, which is supposed to represent an eye and is the center of the memorial site, symbolically leads down to the historical evidence located here. If you step on the pavement in the interior of this oval, a sound installation created by the composer and sound artist Erwin Stache is triggered . At first you can hear your own steps reverberating, as if over a hollow surface. You can hear organ pipes, city noises with strange echoes and voices from contemporary witnesses, until everything suddenly falls silent - as an indication of the sudden disappearance of the former church building.
literature
- Park at the Etzoldschen sand pit with memorial , flyer of the Office for Urban Green and Waters Leipzig, 2011
Individual evidence
Web links
- Park at the Etzoldschen Sandgrube on the website of the City of Leipzig
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 32 " N , 12 ° 25 ′ 27.3" E