Schoenefeld (Leipzig)

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Coat of arms of Leipzig
Schönefeld
district of Leipzig
Coordinates 51 ° 21 '35 "  N , 12 ° 24' 38"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '35 "  N , 12 ° 24' 38"  E
Incorporation 1915
Post Code 04347
prefix 0341
Borough Northeast
Transport links
tram 1, 3, 9
bus 70, 77, 90

Schönefeld is a district in the northeast of Leipzig . From an administrative point of view, the new building area Schönefeld-Ost is now a separate district of Leipzig, while the old location together with Abtnaundorf forms the district of Schönefeld-Abtnaundorf. Both districts had a total of 22,718 inhabitants on December 31, 2017.

history

Schönefeld around 1850
Schönefeld Palace from the west, the tower of the Memorial Church can be seen on the right

In 1270 a margravial village called Schonenvelt was mentioned for the first time. From 1307 until the Reformation it belonged to the Augustinian choir monastery of St. Thomas in Leipzig. In 1527 the village church was rebuilt after a fire. After the devastation in the Thirty Years War , the owner at the time, Georg H. von Thümmel, had the manor house rebuilt in baroque forms. The writer Moritz August von Thümmel was born there on May 27, 1738 . In 1747 Hofrat Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717–1774) inherited the manor. He bequeathed it to the husband of his cousin Christiana Friederika geb. Meurer (1713–1774), the chancellery director and councilor Johann Christoph Schmidt (1704–1781).

During the Battle of Nations in October 1813, the village was completely destroyed, but in 1820 the new building of the Memorial Church, which is still in use today, was completed. Until 1856 Schönefeld belonged to the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig .

Headquarters of VNG AG

During the second half of the 19th century, Schönefeld developed into a working class suburb. The population increased from 889 (1834) to 14,879 (1910). In 1896 Schönefeld was connected to the Leipzig tram network . In the course of using the Eilenburg station on the Leipzig – Eilenburg railway line , there was also the Schönefeld passenger station (structural remains in the northern Elisabeth-Schumacher-Strasse), which is currently only affected by freight traffic.

In 1915 it was incorporated into Leipzig.

Between 1974 and 1976 the new residential complex Schönefeld-Ost with more than 4,000 apartments was built (→ prefabricated buildings in Leipzig ).

The public limited company VNG - Verbundnetz Gas , founded in 1990 , is based in Schönefeld.

Attractions

In the west of Schönefeld on Ossietzkystraße there are several historically relevant buildings that are well worth seeing, from east to west these are:

  • the so-called teacher's house (No. 33)
  • the former Imperial Post Office (No. 35, built in 1905, architect Julius Fritz Drechsler)
  • the Schönefeld town hall (No. 37, built 1904 to 1905, opened in April 1906, the architect was Julius Fritz Drechsler)
  • the rectory of the Gedächtniskirche (No. 39, completed in 1823)
  • the memorial church : rebuilt from 1816 to 1820, Protestant-Lutheran, classicist sacred building. Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck married on September 12, 1840 . The hall church is located on Ossietzkystraße at the corner of Zeumerstraße.
  • Eberstein grave pyramid: Next to the Memorial Church is the Eberstein grave pyramid, which was built by the architect Constantin Lipsius in 1883–1885 on behalf of Hedwig von Eberstein
  • Schönefeld Palace (The palace was built from 1871 to 1876 after being destroyed in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813 by order of Baroness Clara Hedwig von Eberstein. The architect was Bruno Leopold Grimm, who designed the palace in the neo-baroque style based on the French model.)
  • furthermore, the Parthenaue is located north of Ossietzkystraße and west of the castle

Sons and daughters of the place

Impressions

  • former Imperial Post Office and Teacher's House (left)

  • Rathaus Schönefeld (built 1904–1905, renovated 2011–2012)

  • Rectory between town hall and church

  • Schönefeld Memorial Church, parsonage and town hall on the left

  • Eberstein grave pyramid south of the Memorial Church

  • The church and town hall tower tower above the trees on the Parthe

  • Parthe

  • Restaurant in Schönefeld

  • Aerial photo (2008)

and display information about the image
360 degree panorama of the courtyard of the Schönefelder castle - the buildings are (from left to right): special school Schoenefeld, Orangerie, Schloss Schoenefeld, coach house, carriage house, kindergarten and gatehouse - Behind the gate house (east) is the tower of the Memorial Church Schoenefeld to see. In the middle (here on the right in the picture) is a well-shaped mosaic sculpture "Chalice".

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Schönefeld. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 112.

Web links

Commons : Schönefeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , pp. 60 f.