Seeburg district

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GDR prefabricated buildings on Seeburgstrasse (2011)
Memorial stele for Edvard Grieg , Grieg meeting place on Talstrasse (2011)
At the constitutional linden tree (2011)
Villa Schröder , Talstrasse at the corner of Goldschmidtstrasse (2011)

The Seeburgviertel is a district in Leipzig that borders directly on the city center. The quarter is named after the Seeburgstrasse running through the middle. The namesake Moritz Seeburg (1794-1851) was a Leipzig lawyer and city ​​councilor .

The name is not official. Sometimes the Seeburgviertel is also called as the Seepiepe .

location

The Seeburg area belongs administratively to the municipality of Leipzig center and in the district center-southeast.

It is limited to the north by Goldschmidtstraße, to the east by Stephanstraße, to the south by Brüderstraße and to the west by Roßplatz .

Development

Until 1987 the Seeburgviertel was characterized by Wilhelminian style development. Today, in 1987, built determine WBS 70 - prefabricated the cityscape. A large part of the historical development for these apartment blocks was demolished. However, numerous older buildings have also been preserved, some of which have already been extensively renovated.

On the border with Leipzig city center is the ring building built in the style of socialist classicism .

history

Historically, the Grossbosische Garten was partly in the area of ​​the Seeburg district.

From the summer of 1773 at the latest, the Leipzig necromancer Johann Georg Schrepfer performed phantasmagoria under the open sky for the first time with the help of a Laterna Magica in the garden of the pharmacist Johann Heinrich Linck on today's Seeburgstrasse.

On June 21, 1821, Johann Christian Woyzeck stabbed a widow in Sandgasse (today's Seeburgstrasse). This act and the process that followed were the model for Georg Büchner's fragment Woyzeck .

The Mendelssohn House , Goldschmidtstrasse 12, is the former home of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , in which he died in 1847. Today it is used as a museum.

Edvard Grieg was repeatedly a guest at his publisher Peters in Talstrasse 10.

The parental home of the future serial killer Fritz Honka was on Seeburgstrasse.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Werner Förster: Death of a ghost seer. Taurus Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810303-0-3 .
  2. ↑ Woyzeck. The Othello of Leipzig . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1958 ( online ).
  3. ^ Museum - Mendelssohn House & Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation. In: mendelssohn-stiftung.de. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Home - Grieg meeting place Leipzig e. V. In: edvard-grieg.de. February 5, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  5. ^ Richard Deis: Who was Fritz Honka? In: true-crime-story.de. May 3, 2015, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  6. ^ Thomas Schmitt: Sachse Fritz Honka is the murderer of women in St. Pauli. In: tag24.de. March 13, 2016, accessed August 24, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 4.5 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 59.6 ″  E