Stephaniplatz

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Stephaniplatz
Coat of arms of Leipzig, svg
Place in Leipzig
Stephaniplatz
Northeast part of Stephaniplatz
Basic data
place Leipzig
District Reudnitz-Thonberg
Created around 1900
Newly designed 1991
Confluent streets Dresdner Straße, Täubchenweg, Crusius-, Frommann-, Breitkopf- and Augustenstraße
use
User groups Pedestrians, children playing
Technical specifications
Square area approx. 3.0 ha

The Stephani place is a jewelery and playground in Leipzig district Reudnitz . It is named after the politician and Vice Mayor of Leipzig Eduard Stephani (1817–1885). Stephaniplatz is a listed building.

Location and layout

Stephaniplatz extends between Täubchenweg and Dresdner Straße. In the west it is bounded by Crusiustraße and in the east from Taubchenweg by Breitkopfstraße until it widens in the last third to Augustenstraße.

In this north-eastern part is located in the middle of a surrounded by a chain fence roundabout , in which an array of white roses extends, surrounded by a rim of red roses. At the edge of Dresdner Straße is the Apelstein No. 42 as a marker of the location of the III. Prussian corps in the storming of Leipzig on 19 October 1813th

On the western side of the square there is a play and sports area in the middle over half the length of the square, which is built in terraces. It includes a climbing pyramid, a slide tower, a climbing wall, a jumping net and a climbing hemisphere. Two play tubes through a dam awaken the thirst for adventure. There is a soccer field, a table tennis court and sand play areas. The play area is surrounded by a gently sloping roller track 150 meters in length. Once a week, the art suitcase wagon of the socio-cultural district center Mühlstrasse 14 eV offers art to participate in

  • At the rose circle

  • The Apelstein

  • Playground

  • Football field

The “Park and Street Trees” level of the official Leipzig city map shows over 200 trees for Stephaniplatz. The oldest date from 1920. Linden trees are most represented, of which four species occur. There are six types of maple . The olive willow and the vinegar tree are rarer . The park guide lists a total of over 20 tree species. Of the numerous bushes, the rock pear , the wig and the pipe bush as well as the firethorn and the splendid spar are particularly noteworthy. Park benches are set up in the quiet areas of the square.

history

The area around today's Stephaniplatz was undeveloped until the end of the 19th century. From 1851 to 1871 the old connecting line ran over the site , which connected the Dresden station with the Bavarian station . In 1887 the Reudnitzer Rathaus was built on Chausseestrasse (today Dresdner Strasse) and a decorative square was created across the street from 1890 in the width of today's western section according to plans by Leipzig gardening director Otto Wittenberg (1834-1918). This extended south to the VII. Citizens 'School and was initially named Platz in front of the VII. Citizens' School , before it was renamed Stephaniplatz in 1900 .

  • The Stephaniplatz around 1900 with the Reudnitz town hall

  • ... and with the VII. Citizens' School

  • High activity at the paddling pool around 1910

In 1907 the area east of Breitkopfstrasse was included in Stephaniplatz and designed like a park under the Leipzig horticultural director Carl Hampel . In the middle of the new part there was a children's paddling pool at the site of the current rose ring.

In World War II , the building of the former town hall Reudnitzer and the houses were destroyed along the road and Crusius-time GDR during Plattenwohnbauten replaced. The school, which had also been destroyed, was not rebuilt, instead the park was extended to Täubchenweg.

In the middle of the square, an air raid protection structure of the type SBW-300 with 230 m² of usable space was built in the early 1960s. When the park was renovated in 1991, the facility, which was later used as a residential garage, offered the possibility of creating a green hill and laying out the playground in a terraced manner. At this time, the former paddling pool was also transformed into the rose ring.

literature

  • Petra Mewes, Peter Benecken: Leipzig's Green - A Park and Garden Guide . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-938543-49-8 , pp. 152-154 .

Web links

Commons : Stephaniplatz  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Reudnitz-Thonberg, P – Z , ID 09293035
  2. ↑ The art cases come to Stephaniplatz. In: Website of Mühlstraße 14 eV. Retrieved on August 31, 2017 .
  3. ^ City of Leipzig - city map. Retrieved August 31, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Petra Mewes, Peter Benecken: Leipzig's Green - A Park and Garden Guide . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-938543-49-8 , pp. 154 .
  5. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 201 .
  6. ^ Protective structure Leipzig, Stephaniplatz. In: Sperrgebiet.eu. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 18 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 56 ″  E