Volkmarsdorf

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Volkmarsdorf
district of Leipzig
Coordinates 51 ° 20 ′ 37 "  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 34"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 37 "  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 34"  E.
height 115  m
surface 1.09 km²
Residents 13,027 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density 11,951 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation 1890
Post Code 04315
prefix 0341
Borough east
Transport links
tram 1, 3, 7, 8
bus 70
Source: statistik.leipzig.de
Office Center at Torgauer Platz (2011)

Until its incorporation in 1890, Volkmarsdorf was an independent regional body east of Leipzig , which included the manor of Volkmarsdorf and the village. The incorporation made it a part of Leipzig. Since the municipal reorganization of Leipzig in 1992, Volkmarsdorf has also referred to a district of Leipzig in the eastern district. This administrative area includes most of the historic Volkmarsdorfer Flur and the western parts of the Sellerhäuser Flur, the former Neu-Sellerhausen.

location

Volkmarsdorf is located about 3 kilometers east of Leipzig city center. The district borders on Schönefeld in the north, Sellerhausen in the east, Anger-Crottendorf in the south and Neustadt-Neuschönefeld in the west . The western border is formed by Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse and Wiebelstrasse, the southern by Bernhardstrasse, the eastern by the railroad embankment of the Güterring to Torgauer Strasse and the northern by Torgauer Strasse to the Leipzig-Dresden railway line and then to Hermann-Liebmannstrasse. Street.

The approximately half as large area of ​​the Volkmarsdorf district, i.e. the former Volkmarsdorfer Flur, ends in the east at the Wurzner, the Torgauer and the Bennigsenstraße, so that the Torgauer Platz only came to Volkmarsdorf after 1992. In the southwest, the old Volkmarsdorf reached from Wurzner Strasse along the former course of the Ostliche Rietzschke to just before Reclamstrasse and then back through the Rabet district park again to Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse at Dornbergerstrasse. This latter part was the center of the earlier village; the manor Volkmarsdorf was located at the intersection of today's Bergstrasse and Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse. This area is reminiscent of the former village green , on the northern side of which the entrance to the manor was located.

Location typical

Volkmarsdorf is mostly residential or mixed area . Exceptions are the office buildings on Torgauer Platz (formerly VEB "Mikrosa"), the area of ​​the former Langbein-Pfanhauser Werke (later Galvanotechnik Leipzig), where the Leipzig City Archives were located until 2019 , and the industrial area on Schulze-Delitzsch-Straße. Built as a workers' residential area in the Wilhelminian era , it mostly consists of renovated old apartment buildings. Only around the Volkmarsdorfer Markt with the Lukaskirche can one find large-scale prefabricated buildings , which, in contrast to other new building areas of this type, are adapted to the old street grid.

Since there are hardly any green spaces in Volkmarsdorf apart from allotment gardens in the eastern part, extensive tree planting has been carried out on Wurzner Straße in recent years as part of the “Dunkler Wald / Lichter Hain” project.

A special feature in Volkmarsdorf is the very high proportion of residents with a migration background ( 42% for Leipzig ) (city average 2017: 14.1%). In terms of age structure, the group of 20 to 35 year olds is clearly overrepresented (39.4%), children up to 15 years make up 16.5% of the total population, while the proportion of senior citizens is noticeably low (9.9%). The proportion of recipients of social benefits is also well above the city-wide average: 21% of households earn their living mainly from unemployment benefits. At 154 vehicles per 1000 inhabitants, the car quota is far below average.

In 2017, 170 crimes per 1000 inhabitants were registered in Volkmarsdorf (the average for Leipzig is 139). A section of Eisenbahnstrasse (west of Elisabethstrasse) and its side streets between Ludwigstrasse and Konradstrasse in the west of Volkmarsdorf are considered to be a focus of crime and belong to Leipzig's gun ban zone (which, however, mostly extends in neighboring Neustadt-Neuschönefeld).

history

Volkmarsdorf (right in the picture) on a map of the eastern Leipzig suburbs from 1864

As a village and manor

Volkmarsdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1270 as Volcwartisdorff as the property of the Bishop of Merseburg . The farm, initially referred to as Vorwerk , came into the possession of the Pflugk , Pudernaße and von Thümmel families through Eva Luise von Schlomach (1726–1813), the wife of Carl Wilhelm von Kleist (1707–1766), who bought the manor in 1762 of the von Kleist family .

Volkmarsdorf remained rural until the middle of the 19th century. It belonged to the so-called cabbage garden villages , the villages east of Leipzig, which were of great importance for the city's food supply. In addition to the houses in the village on the Rietzschke, there were also those on Wurzner Strasse, the Volkmarsdorfer Strasse houses, which were built as an independent rural community in 1875 and incorporated into Neusellerhausen in 1882 , but the large-scale development of the Volkmarsdorfer Flur continued in the last quarter of the 19th century . Century.

industrialization

Until 1856, Volkmarsdorf was part of the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Leipzig I and from 1875 to the administrative authority of Leipzig .

In 1862 the landlord, Count Bogislaw Adolph Heinrich Kleist vom Loß (1824–1869), had large parts of the Volkmarsdorfer Flur developed as building land. The development was initially hesitant and accelerated after 1879, among other things because the Leipzig – Dresden railway , which opened in 1837 and cut through the Volkmarsdorfer Flur, was moved north and the Eisenbahnstraße could be developed as a main thoroughfare . Some of the new streets were named after people from the von Kleist family, Bogislawstraße after Bogislaw Adolph Heinrich Kleist vom Loß, Konradstraße after the last owner of Volkmarsdorf Conrad Ewald Graf von Kleist and after his daughters Idastraße and Natalienstrasse.

During this time, Volkmarsdorf developed into a densely populated working-class suburb. The population increased from around 900 in 1825 to 12,696 in 1885. The buildings belonging to the manor and the manor house ("Schloss Volkmarsdorf") built in 1700 were demolished in 1880/1881, and the last possessions of the von Kleist family in the following years Volkmarsdorf sold.

  • St. Luke's Church (2015)

  • The former town hall (2005)

As a district of Leipzig

In 1890 Volkmarsdorf was finally incorporated into Leipzig, with which it had already grown geographically. Ecclesiastically , Volkmarsdorf belonged to Schönefeld, which is why the street leading there, today's Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse, was called Kirchstrasse. That changed when, from 1891 to 1893, the Lukaskirche was built on Volkmarsdorfer Markt according to plans by the Leipzig architect Julius Zeißig (1855–1930). Shortly before it was incorporated into Leipzig, the construction of a town hall began on the corner of Kirch- (Hermann-Liebmann-) Strasse and Bogislawstrasse, which later became a police station . By about 1905 the development of the area north of the Eisenbahnstraße was also completed.

During the time of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic , the east of Leipzig with Volkmarsdorf was a stronghold of the labor movement . In the 1920s, on the occasion of KPD election rallies, its chairman Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944) appeared here several times, which is why Eisenbahnstrasse ( Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse ) and Volkmarsdorfer Markt (Ernst-Thälmann-Platz) were named after him in GDR times was named.

  • Apartment block on Dornbergerstrasse (2015)

  • Volkmannsdorf retirement home on Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse (2014)

During the air raids on Leipzig in World War II , Volkmarsdorf suffered almost no bomb damage. However, like other Leipzig districts, Volkmarsdorf was characterized by a gradual deterioration of the Wilhelminian style during the GDR era . This was particularly drastic in the earliest buildings, i.e. in the southern part around the Lukaskirche. After extensive demolition, a new building area with five to six-storey blocks of flats from the housing series (WBS) 70 with a total of 1300 apartments was built here from 1987 to 1990 . This was supplemented in 1997 by the Lukas Arkaden between Dornbergerstrasse and Bogislawstrasse. In 2008, a retirement home with 206 places was opened in the northern part of Hermann-Liebmann-Strasse.

The population fell rapidly in the 1990s: between 1993 and 2001, Volkmarsdorf lost more than a third of its inhabitants. This contrasts with a strong population increase since the beginning of the 21st century, which accelerated again from 2010 onwards. After a low of 7,315 inhabitants in 2001, the mark of 10,000 inhabitants was exceeded again in 2015, and in 2019 it was even 13,174.

In the 2000s, Volkmarsdorf was the Leipzig district with the lowest voter turnout and at the same time the one with the highest percentage of votes for the right-wing extremist NPD . At the 2009 federal election , only 46.5% of people Marsdorfer participated voters in state assembly, European and local elections there were significantly less. In the 2009 state elections, the NPD reached its peak with 10.5%. This changed significantly in the second half of the 2010s: voter turnout in the 2019 European and state elections was around 55%, each around twice as high as five years earlier. The Greens ' share of the vote also doubled in the 2019 state elections to 24.6% and the PARTY made Volkmarsdorf its stronghold with 13.3% in the 2019 European elections .

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Wilhelm Andreas (1882–1951), German sculptor, porcelain designer and interior designer
  • Hans Franke (1882–1971), German composer
  • Hans Leibelt (1885–1974), German actor
  • Omik K (* 1989), German-Cuban rapper, grew up in Volkmarsdorf

literature

  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 432/433 .
  • Vera Danzer, Andreas Dix: Leipzig - A regional history inventory in the Leipzig area . Ed .: Haik Thomas Porada . 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22299-4 , pp. 269-272 .
  • Cornelia Briel: Neuschönefeld, Neustadt, Volkmarsdorf - A historical and urban study . ProLeipzig, Leipzig 1999.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the parcel names on the official city map of Leipzig
  2. ↑ Land use plan of the city of Leipzig, as of April 2020.
  3. ↑ a b District Catalog 2018. Structural data of the districts and districts. City of Leipzig - Office for Statistics and Elections, pp. 77–80 , accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  4. ^ Gun prohibition zone in the city of Leipzig. Police Directorate Leipzig, August 2018
  5. ↑ Saxony's first weapon ban zone set up in Leipzig. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , November 5, 2018.
  6. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , pp. 60 f.
  7. ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900
  8. ↑ 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 .
  9. ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig . tape 3 . ProLeipzig, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-945027-13-4 , pp. 192/193 (map) .
  10. ↑ Home portrait of the elderly care homes Leipzig 2011/2012 ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 24 (PDF; 8.3 MB)
  11. ↑ a b Profile of the district Volkmarsdorf - Wahlen , Leipzig information system.