In this painting by Johann Alexander Thiele, View from Lindenau to Leipzig, from 1740, the extensive area of today's locality of Zentrum-West is still undeveloped.
Zentrum-West is one of the 63 localities into which Leipzig was administratively divided in 1992. It belongs to the borough Leipzig-Mitte and has the serial number 04.
In the north, the locality of Zentrum-West is bordered by Jahnallee and Ranstädter Steinweg, in the east by the Inner City Ring Road (Goerdelerring and Dittrichring). In the south, part of the Johannapark and the Clara-Zetkin-Park still belong to the locality of Zentrum-West. The southern border runs in a straight line along Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse and Anton-Bruckner-Allee in the park to the Saxons' Bridge(Sachsenbrücke), which leads over the Elster flood channel(Elsterflutbett). The Elster flood channel borders the locality together with the Elster basin (Elsterbasin) to the north in the west.
Location characteristics
New building on Westplatz (corporate headquarters of the housing cooperative Unitas)
Although located directly at the gates of the city, the area of Zentrum-West was undeveloped for a long time. It was characterized by floodplains of the Elster and Pleiße rivers. The meadows offered themselves as pastureland, while the alluvial forests were used for the timber industry and the waters for fishing.[1] The engineers Kohl and Georgi developed a river regulation plan from 1852 to 1854. As a result, today's locality of Zentrum-West could be drained.[2] In order to be able to cultivate the swampy meadows, 60,000 cubic metres (2,100,000cuft) of earth had to be filled in, countless locks had to be created, roads had to be built and bridges had to be built.[3] Until the beginning of the 20th century, the current locality was built upon.
The western part, the Bachviertel, still offers the image of a closed Wilhelminian style development. In the Innere Westvorstadt as the eastern part of Zentrum-West, the townscape is more heterogeneous. The two areas are separated by Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse (formerly: Weststrasse), which crosses the locality in a south–north direction about in the middle. Directly west of the inner city ring, large-format buildings were erected comparatively early in the 19th century on the Pleiße mill race(Pleißemühlgraben), and after the parcelling out of gardens such as Reichel's Garden, development continued in the adjoining areas in the rest of the 19th century. Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse (formerly: Plagwitzer Strasse) crosses the district in an east–west direction. The square where Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse and Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse intersect is called Westplatz (West square) and is located approximately in the middle of the Zentrum-West locality.
Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse and Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, as the largest streets in the area, are also tram lines. The street Jahnallee / Ranstädter Steinweg on the northern border of the locality was already part of a long-distance trade route, the Via Regia, in the Middle Ages. Today it is also a tram line. On the western border of the locality, the Zeppelin Bridge and the Klinger Bridge provide the connection for the tram and motorised private transport to the districts further west. The bridge over the Palmengarten weir and The Saxons' Bridge do the same for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
Population
The number of residents with their main residence in the locality of Zentrum-West has developed as follows since 2000:[4]
Year
Residents
2000
06,594
2005
07,946
2010
09,026
2015
10,605
2020
11,139
2024
11,599
The number of residents was comparatively low in the 1990s. The building stock was renovated until the 2000s. There was a funding program for this, and special depreciation could also be used, as many buildings are on the list of monuments.[5] With the general increase in population of Leipzig and the special location of the locality Zentrum-West then filled up with residents in a short time.
Schools
Landesgymnasium für Sport Leipzig
In the locality of Zentrum-West there are the following schools:
↑Ringel, Sebastian (2022). Vom Wandel der Leipziger Vorstädte. 300 verlorene Bauten aus 160 Jahren (in German). Leipzig: edition überland Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. p.20. ISBN978-3-948049-07-2.
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