Planetarium (Leipzig)
The planetarium in Leipzig was a facility of the city of Leipzig to demonstrate astronomical processes and existed from 1926 to 1943.
Location and construction
The Leipzig planetarium was located in the south-western corner of the confluence of Kickerlingsberg and Pfaffendorfer Strasse. The main entrance faced this corner. Since the rear part of the Leipzig Zoo was connected to the west of it , it was sometimes called the Planetarium at the Zoo . It also had a small entrance from the zoo.
The building consisted of a twelve-sided, windowless main body over a base zone, over which a pyramid of the same type rose as a roof. An intermediate wall edge with six rows of windows also enabled daylight to be used for other events. The hall held about 600 people.
history
At the beginning of the 1920s, Carl Zeiss in Jena developed a new type of projection system for displaying the starry sky (Zeiss Model I), which was able to demonstrate 4300 fixed stars , the Milky Way , the planets , the sun , the moon and much more with numerous individual projectors . The Mayor of Leipzig, Karl Rothe , returned enthusiastically from a demonstration trip, and soon afterwards the city council approved the purchase.
City planning officer Hubert Ritter was commissioned with the construction of the planetarium building, which was opened on May 20, 1926. The Leipzig Planetarium received the further development of the projector, the Zeiss Model II, with which the sky projection could be carried out not only for one but for any point on earth. Two days after Barmen, Leipzig was the second city to be able to open such a large planetarium.
On December 4, 1943, the Leipzig planetarium was destroyed in a bomb attack. The square has not been rebuilt to this day.
Civic facility
On May 15, 1992, a small planetarium, the Planetarium in the Zoo , was opened in the dome of the Leipzig Zoo's aquarium . It was equipped with a Zeiss ZKP 2P small planetarium projector. Due to a lack of audience response and summer temperature problems in the dome, the last demonstration took place on March 31, 1996. The closest planetarium to Leipzig is now in the Schkeuditz Astronomical Center .
Individual evidence
- ^ Private communication from Leipzig Zoo
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 469
- Paul Deans, Andreas Scholl: Magic world in the dome. In: Astronomie heute , H. 10/2004, ISSN 1610-8728 , S. 28-34 (PDF; 377 kB)
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 5.3 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 22.9" E