Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof

• Leipzig Nord -Leipzig Bayer Bf ( 1.7 km )
• Leipzig Bayer Bf -Hof Hbf ( 0.195 km )

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The Bayerischer Bahnhof in Leipzig is located southeast of Leipzig's Old Town south of the Bavarian place. The station was in 1842 taken from the Saxon- Bavarian Railway Company and was in operation until its closure in 2001 as the oldest operating head station in Germany (other sources speak of the oldest surviving railway terminus in the world). The railway tracks were completely demolished during the construction works of the Leipzig City Tunnel. It was replaced by an underground station, which was commissioned in December 2013.

The city side front building ( " portico " ) of the former concourse stands as a monument to the history of transport under state protection.

History

The Bavarian railway station was built in the years 1841 to 1844 according to the designs of the Leipzig architects CAE Pötzsch and served as the starting point of the railway line Leipzig -Hof. Already on 18 September 1842 he was still unfinished, opened as together with the first stretch to Altenburg. The completion of the reception building only took place on September 19, 1844.

On September 7, 1883, the Bavarian station was connected to the public transport network of the city of Leipzig with a tram route, on the horse-drawn trams until 1897, then reversed electric trams.

Since October 1, 1912, the rapid and express trains reversed over the railway line Leipzig Hbf -Leipzig- Connewitz to the new central station, since the Bavarian railway station served only the local and freight and special trains for exhibition. In particular, for this existed at the Leipzig goods ring for trains approved routes.

After planning the Düsseldorf architect Emil Fahrenkamp of 1939, the station of a boulevard should be soft. When the air raids on Leipzig on December 1943 and 20 February 4, 1944, the station was partially destroyed. During the portico and the building of the west side remained largely intact, burned down the wooden concourse; the building of the east side had to later be largely demolished.

1952, the depot was closed.

October 2, 1961, the rails were fitted in the station with electric traction lines. By 1970 it should be shut down completely and without replacement. In 1972, the cargo handling was moved to Magdeburg- Thuringian railway station. In 1978 plans were made to convert parts of the station into a permanent exhibition layout. In a further step, a heritage railway between the station and the site of the Technical Fair should be established, which should be operated in the trade fairs and other special occasions. Mid-1980s, the interlockings were replaced using the existing buildings, monument protection laws, kept you in the form of signals to the platform tracks at. The portico in 1991 renovated monument protection regulations.

The buildings of the west side are used since the 19th July, 2000 by a Gose brewery, which also offers catering.

From early 2011 until May 2012 the portico was again restored externally. Among other things, it was found that the buildings were run-down than expected, so that the completion was delayed several times. On 25 May 2012, the completion of the renovation was celebrated with a ceremony.

Description

Even today, the transverse asked to the tracks portico is obtained, which also formed the northern gable of the station concourse and led by its four gate-like sheets per one track. A bell on the Portico announced the departure of trains. It is now in the Dresden Transport Museum. The four tracks north of the railway station united in a turntable on which the locomotives were turned. About the four entrances to a building- wide points inscription on the former owner of the station. Originally it was the Saxon- Bavarian Railway Company.

Later, the inscription was changed, first in

Later in

And the reclamation after the reunion again in

In the middle of the writing is a large clock. The portico is flanked on both sides by a tower with a square base.

To the south joined directly to the portico are no longer preserved 95 m long concourse, whose wooden roof structure was carried by twenty twelve meters tall oak pillars. On both sides of the hall, two-storey buildings were longitudinally: in the east the arrival, in the west exit. At this longitudinal building an administrative building in the north and the south had ever grown. The northern two-storey administration building were connected to the portico in each case by a three-arched, the northern facade but recessed gallery.

Construction of the deep station

On 10 June 2001 the railway station was operating on the Bavarian ( last yet local trains to Altenburg and Zwickau ) completely set. Until the construction of the City Tunnel Leipzig However, it took another two years. The existing facilities should be used for the site supply, therefore remained the signal box 3 at the Richard -Lehmann -Straße for the time being. To this end, it did not come, the tunnel construction site was operated exclusively by truck.

During the construction of the City Tunnel to the main station was built at the Bavarian station until December 2013 an underground station. The station was integrated into the newly designed network of S -Bahn central Germany. Operationally, it is, however, only at a breakpoint. Another breakpoint Leipzig MDR was at the Semmelweis street at the height of the former railway operations work. He is also still on the former station site.

To make room for the construction of the City Tunnel, the 20 meters high, 30 meters wide and 6 meters deep and 2800 -ton portico was moved on 10 April 2006 with the help of special sliding bearing by 30 meters to the east. The foundation has been covered this with concrete. After its hardening HEB steel carrier were placed through the foundation, which has been raised and moved to the structure. After the completion of the shell of the City Tunnel station at the Bayerischer Bahnhof the portico was moved on 30 October 2009 back to his old job back.