Railway line Leipzig-Connewitz-Plagwitz

Leipzig-Connewitz-Plagwitz-Lindenau

Route number :

sä. LP

Course book range :

-

Route length:

6.35 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Maximum slope :

11 ‰

Minimum radius :

250 m

Legend

	from Leipzig
0.00	Leipzig - Connewitz	119 m
	to court
	Mill splice
	Waste water
	Pleiße
	Paußnitz
	Rödel
	White magpie
	Nonnenstrasse
	Elisabethallee
	Loading point 2, Gleisstrasse
	King Johann Bridge
	Loading point 1, Jahnstrasse
	Giesserstrasse
	Naumburger Strasse
6.35	Plagwitz- Lindenau (later: Leipzig-Plagwitz Industriebhf. )	118 m
	Connecting tracks to Plagwitz-Lindenau Pr. Stsb.
	to Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz
	to Leipzig-Lindenau Ldst.

The railway line Leipzig-Connewitz-Plagwitz was only the freight traffic serving connecting line in Leipzig , which originally by the Kgl. Saxon State Railways was built and operated. It connected the industrial area in Plagwitz with the main line Leipzig – Hof .

history

Benefiting from the commissioning of the Prussian railway line Leipzig – Probstzella in 1873, the villages of Plagwitz and Lindenau in the west of Leipzig developed into industrial locations. The Leipzig lawyer and industrial pioneer Carl Erdmann Heine began building several industrial tracks that would open up the industrial area and connect it with the Plagwitz-Lindenau train station. A first connection to Saxon routes went into operation in 1879 with the secondary railway connection Plagwitz-Lindenau-Gaschwitz. Nevertheless, the connection of the industries in the west of Leipzig to the Saxon railway network was still problematic: The route via Leipzig-Leutzsch was 28 km long and expensive due to the kilometer tariffs, the southern route via Gaschwitz was a detour. Therefore the Kgl. Saxon State Railways run another route between Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof and Plagwitz-Lindenau station. The connection was only intended for freight traffic.

The line went into operation on September 17, 1888. From 1920 it was operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The line was shut down on January 1, 1925, as traffic has steadily declined since the Leipzig freight ring opened .

Route description

Branch of the connecting line from the main track PVIII (to the right), approx. 1910

The line left Plagwitz train station north in an arc to the east and ran on the industrial main track PVIII, which had been built earlier . Together with an extensive track system, it opened up the Plagwitz industrial area and crossed Gießerstraße in the process. The Zschochersche Strasse was crossed under the König-Johann-Brücke together with the Karl-Heine-Canal .

At the intersection of today's Erich-Zeigner-Allee and Industriestrasse, you can still see from the buildings that the square, now designed as a roundabout, used to be crossed by numerous tracks. Some of the houses are tapered to a point and matched both the track layout and the street alignment. Two of the crossing tracks led behind the southern houses on Industriestrasse. The left of it belonged to the connecting line that branched off from the Plagwitz siding system.

The route continued parallel to Industriestrasse, crossed today's Nonnenstrasse, spanned the White Elster on its own bridge next to the Charles Bridge, crossed today's Holbeinstrasse, Brockhausstrasse and Könneritzstrasse in Schleußig . On the Könneritzstraße, the tram was crossed at ground level in order to then run on embankments through the floodplain forest landscape to the Connewitz station of the Saxon-Bavarian Railway .

Numerous bodies of water were crossed in the floodplain forest, first the Rödel , which was filled in from 1926 and which was then followed in parallel. Then the Paußnitz , the Pleiße , the waste water and the Mühlpleiße .

Search for clues

Track remains of the railway line on the Karl-Heine-Canal in Leipzig-Plagwitz

Course of the route in Plagwitz on a lithograph from 1895

In Plagwitz the connecting line was used as a siding until after 1990. In the course of the renovation of the former industrial quarter, parks were created near the Karl-Heine-Canal, the routing of which is intended to remind of the former track systems. The connecting railway in this area is also available as a walkway and bike path, in which the rails have been retained as path delimitation.

In Schleußig the route can only be guessed from the air. After 1990, new houses were built on Nonnenstrasse and Könneritzstrasse and built over the route. There are also some older outbuildings in the courtyards that blur the route. The Könneritzstraße still rises in the otherwise flat area to the level of the former railway tracks. The railway embankment has been preserved from Könneritzstrasse and has been incorporated into the design of the green inner courtyards.

There are also dams in the alluvial forest and serve as hiking or cycling trails. Of the bridges, an abutment of the bridge over the Rödel and the abutment on the Pleiße can be seen. Shortly before Connewitz, the route merges into the embankment of the city motorway-like expressway B2 .

The curve at the entrance to Connewitz station can be clearly seen again.

literature

Wolfram Sturm: Leipzig Railway Center. Pro Leipzig eV, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-9807201-9-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Sturm, Eisenbahnzentrum Leipzig, p. 34
↑ Brief description of the Rödel on: leipzig-lexikon.de

[1] Sturm, Eisenbahnzentrum Leipzig, p. 34

[2] Brief description of the Rödel on: leipzig-lexikon.de