Ranstädter Steinweg
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| Ranstädter Steinweg (2009) | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Leipzig |
| District | Center-Northwest |
| Created | 1252 |
| Newly designed | 2006 |
| Hist. Names | Stalinallee, Street III. World Festival, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Allee |
| Connecting roads | Jahnallee, Trondlinring |
| Cross streets | Leibnizstrasse, Thomasiusstrasse |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
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| Street length | 0.67 km |
The Ranstädter Steinweg is a main thoroughfare in Leipzig. As part of federal highway 87 , the road has been expanded to two lanes in both directions. It has a separate track bed on which lines 3, 4, 7 and 15 of the Leipzig tram run. There is a bicycle path or a combined foot and cycle path on both sides.
The 673 meter long Ranstädter Steinweg follows the historical course of the Via Regia , an old west-east trade route that crossed the Via Imperii in Leipzig . At its eastern end, the Ranstädter Tor was located as the western city gate on the road to Ranstädt (today Altranstädt ). Outside the city wall, on the southern side of the Ranstädter Steinweg, next to the Jacob's Chapel , the Jacobparochie was built , and on the northern side the Mühlgrabensiedlung , from which several footbridges led over the Elstermühlgraben that ran along the road to the Steinweg. Both settlements were later referred to as Ranstädter Vorstadt , within Leipzig the adjacent quarter was called Ransche Viertel .
In contrast to most of the other streets and alleys in Leipzig, the name Steinweg describes a street with stone paving . At first there were three such stone- paved arterial roads: the Ranstädter Steinweg , the Peterssteinweg and the Grimmaischer Steinweg .
From 1950 to 2006, Ranstädter Steinweg was part of a street that was renamed several times: Stalin Allee (1950), Straße der III. World Festival (1951), Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn- Allee (1956) and most recently Jahnallee (1992). In 2005, the Leipzig Council meeting decided to rename it to Ranstädter Steinweg , which became effective on May 15, 2006.
The houses from 1950/1951 on what was then the III. The World Festival is one of the first new residential buildings to be built after the Second World War .
At the western end of the street, the late classicist house “ Kleine Funkenburg” stood from 1850 to 2005 ; it was called this due to its location near the Vorwerk Funkenburg, a little further out of town . It was the last building on the southern side from the time before the Second World War and previously marked the end point of the Ranstädter suburb in front of the bridge over the Elstermühlgraben. Despite numerous protests, it was torn down in 2005 in order not to endanger the completion of the renovation of the Ranstädter Steinweg up to the 2006 World Cup.
When the Elstermühlgraben was opened, the new bridges were named Angermühlbrücke , Lautensteg , Carusbrücke and Fischersteg .
The doctor and polymath Carl Gustav Carus was born in 1789 in Ranstädter Steinweg, a plaque on Elstermühlgraben reminds of him.
From 1827 to 1828 Kapellmeister Heinrich Marschner lived in the Zur golden Lute inn and there he completed his opera Der Vampyr , with which he made his breakthrough as an opera composer. The inn has not been preserved, it was located a little west of the confluence with Jacobstrasse; a memorial plaque points to the house and the composer; The Lautensteg also takes its name from the former inn.
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- ↑ Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 110 f.
- ↑ a b Renaming of the front part of Jahnallee, renaming and renaming of bridges. Leipzig Official Gazette No. 22 of October 29, 2005
- ↑ Notice on the effective renaming of a street and a bridge. Leipzig Official Gazette No. 8 of April 22, 2006
- ^ Stadtforum Leipzig: For the preservation of the Kleine Funkenburg ( Memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 37.9 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 1.9 ″ E