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Coat of arms of Leipzig
Real
district of Leipzig
Coordinates 51 ° 22 ′ 30 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 22 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 30 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 22 ″  E.
surface 4.61 km²
Residents 7132 (December 31, 2018)
Population density 1547 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 04159
prefix 0341
Borough northwest
Transport links
Federal road B6
Train S 3
tram 10, 11
bus 80, 87, 88, 90, 91, 190
Source: statistik.leipzig.de

Wahren is a district (officially: district) in the north-west of the city of Leipzig . It is elevated on the northern edge of the Elsteraue .

location

Preserve with white magpie and dog water
Town Hall Wahren.

Wahren borders Möckern to the east, Lindenthal to the north and Stahmeln to the west . To the south of the location extends a part of the Leipzig floodplain forest, which is traversed by the White Elster and Neue Luppe .

Until the interruption due to the construction of the Neue Luppe, a tributary of the same flowed south of the White Elster through the floodplain forest, the dog water . It branched off at the dog gun north of the Auensee and fed it for several years.

history

The place name Wahren is derived from the word Vuarim and later Warim . It comes from the Old Sorbian word wariti , which can be translated as "boiling, boiling, bubbling, swelling". Vuarim was mentioned for the first time on February 8, 1004 in a document signed by King Henry II (1002-1024). An Old Slavic cult site is said to have been located in Wahren, where a first chapel was built in the 11th century and a stone church in the 12th century. Today's Evangelical Church of Grace has been rebuilt several times. It is one of the oldest churches in the Leipzig city area.

Wahren was long owned by the bishops of Merseburg. Even after the Reformation, it belonged to the area of ​​the Hochstift-Merseburg office of Schkeuditz , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . Through the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the western part of the Schkeuditz office was ceded to Prussia in 1815. Wahren remained with the eastern part of the Kingdom of Saxony and was incorporated into the Leipzig district office. In 1839 Wahren was replaced by the manor in the village and thus gained the status of an independent political community. From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Leipzig II and from 1875 to the administrative authority Leipzig .

The village-like character of the place was retained until the second half of the 19th century, after which Wahren developed into an industrial community and the number of inhabitants increased sharply. In 1893, Polyphon-Musikwerke began manufacturing mechanical musical devices in their factory at Wahren station. From 1904 Polyphon also built automobiles (Polymobil "Gazelle"). This vehicle production led to the establishment of the independent subsidiary Dux Automobil-Werke in 1916 , which was taken over by Presto in 1926 .

White Elster and Wahrener Railway Viaduct
The Gnadenkirche, the oldest building in Wahren

In 1899 the Leipzig machine tool factory was established in Wahren . W. von Pittler on. Even after nationalization in 1945 until the fall of 1989, it was the largest operation in the district. In 1900 the community received a tram connection to Leipzig.

By 1905, the Prussian State Railroad built the Leipzig-Leutzsch-Leipzig-Wahren line of the Leipzig freight ring with a viaduct that characterizes the townscape. From 1905 onwards, the people of Wahren built a large town hall with a tower that could be seen from afar; the building by the architect Richard Lucht was inaugurated on December 30, 1907.

Dominican monastery

In 1912/13 the Luna Park was opened at Auensee with restaurants, a beach, a roller coaster and other amusement facilities. Until the 1930s, it was one of the most popular excursion destinations for the people of Leipzig. Today only Haus Auensee is left, in whose large hall pop concerts and the like are left. Ä. are organized.

On January 1, 1922, Wahren was incorporated into Leipzig at its own request. One of the reasons was the expectation of cheaper fares for the “Great Leipzig Tram” (which would now also apply to Wahren) compared to the “Leipziger Außenbahn”.

In 1930 the Dominican Order set up a branch in Wahren . Father Aurelius Arkenau worked in the monastery from 1942, he hid more than 100 people there and was honored as Righteous Among the Nations as well as with the place named after him in Wahren. In 1951 the associated Catholic church was built. Their peal is coordinated with the bells of the nearby old Protestant church.

education

At the north-western end of Wahren is the Paul Robeson School, which includes elementary and high schools . In the summer of 2019, the primary school will move to the center of the village, where a school has been located for many years. The existing building from 1894 received an extension and a new single-field sports hall.

traffic

The viaduct in Wahren

The Leipzig-Wahren train station is on the Leipzig – Halle line . Since the S-Bahn connection between Leipzig and Halle went into operation in 2004, it has served exclusively as a S-Bahn stop in the passenger transport sector : the S3 line stops here every half hour. To the west of the railway subsidiary operates DUSS a container - handling depot . In Wahren, the original route of the Magdeburg-Leipzig Railway, opened in 1840 (which was only used for freight traffic after 1906, since 2004 it has served exclusively as an S-Bahn route), is combined with the new route opened in 1906 parallel to the Leipziger Güterring , which is the Long-distance and freight traffic is used. The freight ring branches off from the route to Halle east of the Wahren train station and continues south over the Wahren Viaduct. The viaduct crosses the village and the Elsteraue; At 565 m, it is one of the longest railway bridges in Saxony .

Wahren is also served by the tram lines 10 and 11 and the bus lines 80, 87, 88, 90 and 91/190 of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe .

Companies

The most important local company is the Catholic Sankt Benno Verlag .

photos

  • Water tower

  • Gnadenkirche 2012

  • Portal of the town hall

  • Restored residential complex on Pater-Aurelius-Platz

  • Former Wellenwerk, now residential building

  • Manor house in Rittergutsstr.

  • Half-timbered buildings on Rittergutsstrasse

  • Retirement home on the White Elster

  • Auensee and the south of Walen

  • Lunapark

  • House Auensee

literature

  • Rolf Aurich: The 1000 year old Waren. Walks through a district of Leipzig. Citizens' Association Möckern / Wahren e. V. u. Pro Leipzig e. V., Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-936508-94-1
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : True. 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. 134.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topographic map Saxony 1: 25000 (measuring table sheets), edited in the topographic office of the Royal General Staff, Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, sheet 25 (1914 & 1940), on: deutschefotothek.de
  2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  3. ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900
  4. ↑ Ralf Julke: In 2019 the new school in Wahren should finally start operations. In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung. August 7, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 .

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