Leipzig Science Park

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In the Leipzig Science Park (2013)

Science Park Leipzig refers to both a research site in the northeast of Leipzig and an association of the institutions represented there ( Science Park Leipzig / Permoserstraße e.V. ).

The tasks handled by the institutions represented range from basic scientific research and the application of its results to the production of scientific devices.

location

The science park is located in the Sellerhausen-Stünz district, around four kilometers from the city center. It is bounded in the west by Torgauer Strasse, in the south by Permoserstrasse, in the east by the track area of ​​the northern freight ring and in the north by the site of the German Biomass Research Center . It occupies an area of ​​about 16 hectares.

Institutions

One of the buildings of the UFZ (2010)
Leipzig KUBUS conference center , including the WikiCon 2017 conference center

The institutes and companies operating on the site are:

With 883 employees (as of December 2017) at its Leipzig location, the UFZ is by far the largest of the institutions represented. It occupies over ten buildings in the western part of the site.

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, the metalworking company Hugo and Alfred Schneider AG (HASAG) relocated its operation from Paunsdorf as a new modern plant in a triangle between Torgauer and Permoserstraße. As early as the First World War , production was switched to armaments, and by the 1940s Saxony's largest armaments factory was established. The bazooka was developed here from 1942 . A satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp was built south of Permoserstraße for slave laborers during the Second World War . A memorial on the grounds of the science park commemorates this.

Former administration building of HASAG, today u. a. UFZ library, left the slave labor memorial (2017)

After the war, a research area was established on the HASAG site after the factories were demolished. Initially, the administration building, which was reconstructed after war damage, housed the Institute for Organic-Chemical Industry (later Institute for Process Engineering of Organic Chemistry ) and the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Plastics (later Institute for Plastics Research). This was followed by the Institute for Applied Radioactivity (IaR) and for Physical Material Separation (the latter later renamed the Institute for Stable Isotopes (IsI)), for which new buildings were built. The 40 meter high tower for the isotope separation columns still defines the image of the site from afar. A social building and a technical center were created. In 1958, the institutes were subordinated to the newly founded research association of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) . In 1969 the Institute for Technical Chemistry was established (from 1985 Institute for Biotechnology (IBT)), and in 1969, as part of the academy's reform, the IaR and IsI were combined with two other institutions to form the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research (ZfI). In the next few years a few smaller facilities and new buildings were added.

In the course of German reunification in 1991, all institutes were closed with the exception of a few small work units. At that time, 1,740 people were employed on the site, 469 of them in the ZfI.

On January 2, 1992, the Environmental Research Center and the Institute for Tropospheric Research started operations. The UFZ took over most of the existing buildings. The Institute for Surface Modification was created at the same time from working units of the ZfI in the field of ion and electron beam research. Several affiliated institutes of the University of Leipzig started their work.

In the years that followed, all buildings were reconstructed and new ones erected, such as the institute building and the cloud laboratory of TROPOS, the institute building of the IOM, a laboratory building for the UFZ, the company building of Bruker and the Leipzig KUBUS, the conference and education center of the UFZ.

1998 the Verein Wissenschaftspark Leipzig / Permoserstraße e. V. founded.

literature

  • UFZ Environmental Research Center Leipzig-Halle GmbH (Ed.): Leipzig Permoserstraße. On the history of an industrial and scientific location. Passage-Verlag Leipzig 2001. ISBN 3-932900-61-8

Web links

Commons : Wissenschaftspark Leipzig  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers and facts. Retrieved April 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ UFZ site plan. (PDF) Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The Leipzig Forced Labor Memorial. Retrieved April 8, 2018 .
  4. ^ Leipzig Permoserstraße. On the history of an industrial and scientific location, p. 111
  5. ↑ Guiding principle for the science park . Retrieved April 6, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 8 "  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 58"  E