Goerdelerring
Goerdelerring is a street and large tramway station in Leipzig, Germany. It is named after Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.
The street
The street Goerdelerring is part of the city circle of Leipzig, leading the traffic around the city center. It is 832 meters long and reaches from the branch of the Ranstädter Steinweg to the branch of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße in a mainly northeast-southwest direction. The street has three lanes for car traffic in each direction and two tracks for tramways in the middle which are also used by night busses. The first tramway tracks on the street that is now Goerdelerring have been laid in 1872 as part of the original horse tram network of the city of Leipzig.
There are no buildings immediately next to the street. Nevertheless, there are buildings with the address Goerdelerring. The most important one is the main firehouse. On the eastern side there is a small green area, on the western side the parking area of the firehouse and the Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer are situated. The continuation on the city circle is made by the Dittrichring to the south and the Tröndlinring to the east. The crossing that forms the northern end of the Goerdelerring and the northwestern edge of the city circle is one of the busiest crossings in Leipzig.
Until 1945 the street was named Fleischerplatz, the northern crossing had the name Schulplatz. From 1945 to 1991 the whole street was named Friedrich-Engels-Platz after Friedrich Engels, and on 1 January 1992 the street got its current name Goerdelerring.
The tramway station
The tramway station Goerdelerring, served by the Leipzig Transport Company, is situated in the middle of the Tröndlinring, immediately east of the crossing that forms the northern end of the Goerdelerring. It was built in 1964 during a reconstruction of the alignment of the city circle. Until 1964 the tracks lay north of today's route nearer to the buildings. The street was widened and a large tramway station with four tracks has been built. Today, the tramway lines 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14 and 15 and the nightbus lines N1, N2, N3, N4 and N5 are serving the station making it one of the busiest tramway stations in Leipzig. On weekdays 87 trams per hour stop at Goerdelerring which means in average one tram every 42 seconds.
External links
- Further information about the Goerdelerring at leipzig-lexikon.de (in German)
- Official site of the Leipzig Transport Company, with information about the tramway network (available in English)