Slaughterhouse (Leipzig)
The municipal cattle and slaughterhouse in Leipzig (mostly just "slaughterhouse" for short) served as the central supply of meat and sausage products to the city for over 100 years.
location
The slaughterhouse was in the southern suburb . It was bordered to the west by Altenburger Strasse and to the south by Richard-Lehmann-Strasse (formerly Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse). In the east and north were the tracks of the Saxon-Bavarian Railway and the coal station, which provided the siding necessary for the operation of the facility.
In the inner city, the slaughterhouse had been connected to traffic since 1889 by a horse-drawn railway line, which had its terminal at the slaughterhouse and was operated electrically from 1896. This terminal existed until 1935.
history
To the northwest of the city, in front of the Ranstädter Tor , Leipzig's first slaughterhouse was built in 1655 on the banks of the Pleißemühlgraben . The place in front of it was therefore the butcher's place.
As the throughput of slaughter cattle increased as the city grew, the animals delivered for slaughter were placed in the Ratsgut Pfaffendorfer Hof from the 1860s onwards , which is why it was soon named "Fettviehhof". But even this solution turned out to be no longer sufficient for the rapidly growing population of Leipzig after a few years.
After two years of construction, the new urban cattle yard and slaughterhouse in the southern suburbs was opened on June 11, 1888 according to the plans of the head of the Leipzig building construction office Hugo Licht . It occupied an area of 113,700 m² and had a built-up area of initially 20,000 m². It included slaughterhouses, market halls and stables, a cold store and a fertilizer store, a sanitary facility, an exchange and an administration building. The uniform design was characterized by yellow clinker brick facades. The first extensions were necessary as early as 1891. In 1913 the built-up area was already 50,000 m². The last large new building was a modern beef slaughterhouse along Altenburger Strasse in 1936.
After the Second World War , the slaughterhouse was expanded into one of the largest in the GDR , called itself "Delicata" and was the main operation of the "VEB Fleischkombinat Leipzig". From 1974 to 1977, in addition to the slaughterhouse, a new meat processing plant for the production of meat and sausage products was established. The outdated part of the company in Angerstrasse could therefore be closed.
After the fall of the Wall , the company initially became a communal facility and in 1991 became the property of Südfleisch AG Munich. After a quick bankruptcy, the company closed on June 30, 1991.
The entrance to the slaughterhouse in 1892
The siding
New cattle market hall in 1913
The slaughterhouse site in 1952
A modern slaughterhouse
Successor institutions
In the 1990s, the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk set up its television center and central administration on the slaughterhouse site. For this purpose, the production halls were demolished, the administration buildings and some stables on the southern edge of the site were renovated. The latter were converted into warehouses and the company canteen. The first renovated building that was occupied was the former stock exchange as the seat of the director in February 1993. There were discussions about the demolition of the cattle slaughterhouse, which was considered an outstanding example of industrial architecture of the 1930s and was initially intended for conversion. After three and a half years of construction, the MDR's broadcasting center was opened on July 13, 2000 with the 65-meter high-rise building.
The area of the MDR takes up about 70% of the former slaughterhouse area. To the north joins the Media City Leipzig , which went into operation in 2000 and contains several television studios (including the rooms of the Sachsenklinik for the series “ In allerfreund ”) as well as numerous companies and service providers in the film and television industry. Both the MDR buildings and those of Media City are color-matched to the old slaughterhouse buildings.
Finally, in 2009, the kindergarten "Elefant, Tiger & Knirps" was opened in the northernmost building of the slaughterhouse, the former slaughterhouse, and an attached new building on Altenburger Strasse.
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 526
Web links
- History of VEB Fleischkombinat Leipzig, slaughter and processing plant Delicata Leipzig. In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Slaughterhouse tram route in the Leipzig Lexicon
- ^ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , p. 187
- ↑ How much slaughterhouse does the MDR need? In: Leipziger Blätter No. 33, Passage Verlag Leipzig 1998, p. 71
- ^ Institution website
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 56.4 " N , 12 ° 23 ′ 1.1" E