Richard-Lehmann-Strasse
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| Course of Richard-Lehmann-Straße between Zwickauer Straße and Auwald |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Leipzig |
| District | Südvorstadt / Connewitz |
| Created | 1882 |
| Hist. Names | Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse |
| Connecting roads | Wundtstrasse, at the tobacco mill |
| Cross streets | August-Bebel-Strasse, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, Zwickauer Strasse |
| Buildings | Deutsche Bundesbank, HTWK, MDR, Panometer, car dealerships |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
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| Street length | 3.0 km |
The Richard-Lehmann-Straße (formerly Empress Augusta street) is a three-kilometer long main road to the south of Leipzig and at the same time part of the Bundesstraße 2 . Between Auwald and Altenburger Straße, the avenue is a listed building as a whole .
course
Richard-Lehmann-Straße branches off from the four-lane Wundtstraße at the alluvial forest and runs over 3.0 kilometers in a fairly precise easterly direction to the vicinity of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal , where it meets the “An der Tabaksmühle” road. From the alluvial forest it rises by around eight meters to Kochstrasse, and then, after initially running horizontally from Altenburger Strasse, it climbs by around 15 meters on an artificial ramp that is a good 300 meters long. This ramp is generally still called Schlachthofberg after its former neighbor. The road now maintains this height on a raised embankment until the natural terrain at its eastern end has risen to the same level. It crosses three bridges: the railway line to the Bayerischer Bahnhof (Schlachthofbrücke), the site of the former track system to the former Großmarkthalle (Markthallenbrücke) and the railway line between Stötteritz and Connewitz (Hofer Brücke).
In its western part, the Richard-Lehmann-road to the slaughterhouse bridge forms the border between Connewitz and the Südvorstadt , then extends to the Hofer bridge through the district center-Southeast and then separates Marienbrunn from which to Probstheida counting Wilhelm Külz Park .
history
In 1866, the “General Development Plan for the South Side of the City” was adopted in Leipzig, in which the planned route of the streets to the southern border towards Connewitz was determined. The southern boundary of the area was to be an avenue, for which the name Kaiserin-Augusta- Strasse was intended after the wife of Emperor Wilhelm I. Finally, in 1882, the construction of the street began, partly with a tree-lined median from the waterworks at the Auwald (from 1887 municipal gardening) to the railway line coming from the Bavarian train station with overbuilding of the cathedral ditch flowing from the Marienquelle to the Pleiße , the corridor border between Leipzig and Connewitz. The street initially ended between the slaughterhouse being built on Altenburger Strasse and the then new gas works (now Stadtwerke). Only one way led further to Stötteritz. In 1884 the street was officially named after it was published by the city council in the daily newspaper.
In the second half of the 1920s, better traffic connections to the site of the technical fair as well as a general improvement of a south-east-west connection became necessary, and the Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse was extended with the dam described above.
On August 1, 1945 , Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse was renamed Richard-Lehmann -Strasse .
In the second half of the 20th century the bridges were renovated or rebuilt, 1968–1971 the Schlachthofbrücke, 1988–1991 the Markthallenbrücke and 1993–1994 the Hofer Brücke. Before the rededication to the federal highway, the western part up to the Schlachthofberg was completely reconstructed in 2003 and the median was again completely planted with plane trees.
traffic
With the exception of Schlachthofberg, Richard-Lehmann-Straße has four lanes. It has full-length cycle paths on both sides, partly through lane markings, partly as separate cycle paths.
Richard-Lehmann-Straße is signposted as the main street except for the intersection with Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. There are traffic lights here and on August-Bebel-Straße, Arthur-Hoffmann-Straße, Altenburger Straße and Zwickauer Straße.
From January 4, 1930 to May 25, 2001, tram line 22 ran on Richard-Lehmann-Straße from its eastern end to Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. Then it was replaced by bus route 70, which runs along Richard-Lehmann-Straße on the same route. The section from Arthur-Hoffmann-Strasse to Zwickauer Strasse was still used by the following lines that run to Marienbrunn, from 1931 to 1951 the 14 and from 1945 to 1967 the 16. Currently, only line 9 runs one stop distance between the Karl- Liebknecht-Strasse and Arthur-Hoffmann-Strasse in Richard-Lehmann-Strasse; the part up to Zwickauer Straße is still available as an operating route.
Development
After the open construction method with no business in the backyards had been prescribed for the southern part of the southern suburbs, individual multi-storey apartment buildings with representative buildings, some of which took up an entire floor, were built on the north side of Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse from around the turn of the century until the First World War Apartments. Ten of these houses are still standing today. The upper-class, neo-baroque villa on the corner of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße (today August-Bebel-Straße) in a park-like area, which the architect Otto Paul Burghardt designed for Fritz and Hans von Philipp (board members of Fritz Schulz jun. AG ). Of the property that was destroyed in World War II, only the wrought iron enclosure with its portals, a corner arbor and a round temple remain. A newly built police station is located in the former park. A three-wing residential complex for judges of the Reichsgericht , built in 1923/1924 on the Auwald side of the street according to plans by Carl James Bühring, is now the municipal senior citizens' and nursing home "Am Auenwald".
On the south side of the street belonging to Connewitz, the main building of the Leipzig building trade school was built in 1913 at the corner of the south street (Karl-Liebknecht-Straße) (later the State Construction School Leipzig, today the University of Technology, Economy and Culture Leipzig ). The residential buildings built between 1927 and 1937 in the area of today's Bernhard-Göring- and Arthur-Hoffmann-Straße by the building association to procure inexpensive apartments, some in Art Deco style, also run along Richard-Lehmann-Straße. In 1931 the home for professionals with its gable facing the street was built, which is now used as the Gerd Klingner House for assisted living.
The relatively minor war damage from the Second World War was partially closed in the 1960s by new building blocks and three such blocks were built perpendicular to the street on the former tennis court area in front of the Schlachthofberg. In the 1980s, a large daycare center was built in the lower part of Richard-Lehmann-Straße.
After the fall of the Wall , the most important buildings were the redesign of the slaughterhouse site to become the broadcasting center of the MDR in the years 1995 to 2000 with the eleven-story high-rise above the studio building, the establishment of the state central bank for Saxony and Thuringia, now the Bundesbank branch Leipzig, from 1995 to 1998 on the corner to Karl-Liebknecht-Straße and the Leipzig radio tower, completed in 2015, on the corner of Zwickauer Straße.
In 2003, the architect and artist Yadegar Asisi opened his first panometer with the circular image 8848Everest360 ° in a former gasometer belonging to the Stadtwerke on Richard-Lehmann-Straße .
In recent years, several car dealerships have been built in the eastern part from Zwickauer Strasse and also with the inclusion of the old trade fair grounds, so that this part of Richard-Lehmann-Strasse is also known as the automobile mile . In detail, these were 1997 Mercedes , 2001 Audi , 2003 BMW , 2007 Honda and 2011 VW . In 2010 a new commercial building was built on the western part of the street.
Buildings from around 1900 on the south suburbs side
Art Deco apartment buildings opposite
Main building of the HTWK (former building trade school)
Bundesbank branch on the corner of Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse
Schlachthofberg and Panometer
MDR site from Richard-Lehmann-Straße
At the car mile
New commercial building
literature
- Christian M. Nebehay: Kaiserin Augustastrasse 17 (1913-1917). In: My father's golden armchairs. Edition Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 1983, pp. 80–88 (with description and photo of the house built in 1913 and destroyed in World War II)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Outer Südvorstadt. A historical and urban study. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 1998
- ^ Gustav Wustmann: On the history of our street names. In: From Leipzig's past. New series, Leipzig 1898 p. 11
- ^ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 177
- ^ Leipzig-Lexikon: Südring-Straßenbahntrasse , accessed on October 15, 2010
- ↑ Tram archive. Volume 3, Verlag Ingrid Zeunert Gifhorn 1984, ISBN 3-924335-03-6
- ↑ a b Connewitz. A historical and urban study. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2008.
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '53.7 " N , 12 ° 22' 57.6" E