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The former Leipzig excursion restaurant by day ...
... and at night

Zum Wassergott was the name of a popular Leipzig excursion restaurant. It was located about 300 meters south of the bridge called Probsteisteg in the Connewitz floodplain forest .

It was a colonnade-like pile building erected by the Leipzig fishermen's guild in 1860 on the western side in the Pleiße and was initially called "New Helgoland". Until the construction of the western bank path around the time of the First World War, the restaurant could only be reached by boat or ferry from the opposite bank. The boat tours started both in the city of Leipzig (across the Pleißemühlgraben ) and in Connewitz.

The restaurant fell victim to a pressure wave from an explosive bomb during an air raid on Leipzig on February 20, 1944 and ended up as firewood.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 470
  2. ^ Oswald Müller, Thomas Nabert: Connewitz - A Leipzig district on old postcards . PRO LEIPZIG 2011, ISBN 978-3-936508-58-1 , p. 19
  3. ^ Heinz Peter Brogiato: Leipzig around 1900 , second volume, Lehmstedt Verlag Leipzig, 2009, p. 26, ISBN 978-3937146-46-1

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 45.7 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 30 ″  E