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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Tram in Leipzig - Length: 3:46 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - Straßenbahn Leipzig Trams in Leipzig - Length: 65:28 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - 1996 - 100 Jahre Straßenbahn in Leipzig - Length: 14:30 mins. |
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MAPS
INSET: CENTRAL LEIPZIG
INSET: LEIPZIG CITY CORE
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Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.
ROUTES
Operator: Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) GmbH
TRAM ROUTES
| 1 | Lausen – Grünau-Süd – Schleußig - Westplatz - Goerdelerring - Hauptbahnhof – Eisenbahnstraße - Schönefeld - Mockauer Str. - Mockau, Post |
| 2 | Grünau-Süd - Westplatz - Roßplatz - Deutsche Nazionalbibliothek - Altes Messegelände - Naunhofer Str. [some services continue to: - Südfriedhof - Meusdorf] |
| 3/3E | Knautkleeberg - Windorf - Felsenkeller - Angerbrücke - Waldplatz - Goerdelerring - Hauptbahnhof – Eisenbahnstraße - Torgauer Str. [- Leipziger Str. - Taucha] / [3E: - Paunsdorf-Nord - Sommerfeld] |
| 4 | Gohlis Landsberger Str. - Gohlis-Süd - Waldplatz - Goerdelerring - Hauptbahnhof – Augustusplatz - Johannisplatz - Reudnitz - S-Bf. Stötteritz - Stötteritz |
| 7 | Böhlitz-Ehrenberg - Leutzsch - Altlindenau - Angerbrücke - Waldplatz - Goerdelerring - Hauptbahnhof – Augustusplatz - Reudnitz - Sellerhausen - Paunsdorf-Nord - Sommerfeld |
| 8 | Grünau-Nord - S-Bf. Lindenau - Altlindenau - Angerbrücke - Waldplatz - Westplatz - Roßplatz - Augustusplatz - Eisenbahnstraße - Sellerhausen - Paunsdorf-Nord |
| 9 | Thekla - Mockau, Post - Mockauer Str. - Berliner Str. - Hauptbahnhof - Goerdelerring - Thomaskirche - Roßplatz - Steinplatz - Connewitz, Kreuz - S-Bf. Connewitz |
| 10 | Wahren - Gohlis Süd - Chausseehaus - Hauptbahnhof - Augustusplatz - Roßplatz - Südplatz - Connewitz, Kreuz - Triftweg - Lößnig |
| 11 | Schkeuditz - Lützschena - Wahren - Gohlis Süd - Chausseehaus - Hauptbahnhof - Augustusplatz - Roßplatz - Südplatz - Connewitz, Kreuz - S-Bf. Connewitz - Markkleeberg-Ost |
| 12 | Gohlis-Nord - Zoo - Goerdelerring - Hauptbahnhof – Augustusplatz - Johannisplatz [In rush-hours: - Technisches Rathaus] |
| 14 | S-Bf. Plagwitz - Felsenkeller - Westplatz - [Loop, in both directions: - Goerdelerring - Hauptbahnhof - Augustusplatz - Roßplatz - ] |
| 15 | Miltitz - S-Bf. Lindenau - Altlindenau - Angerbrücke - Waldplatz - Goerdelerring - Hauptbahnhof – Augustusplatz - Technisches Rathaus - Altes Messegelände - Südfriedhof - Meusdorf |
| 16 | Messegelände - Eutritzsch - Chausseehaus - Hauptbahnhof - Augustusplatz - Roßplatz - Deutsche Nazionalbibliothek - Triftweg - Lößnig |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tramway: 146 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-drawn trams: 18 May 1872 - 1897.
- Urban electric trams: 20 May 1896 - today.
GAUGE
- Trams 1458 mm. (1872 - 1880: 1435 mm.)
TRAM PRESERVATION
There is a museum devoted to the history of trams in Leipzig called the Historische Straßenbahnhof Leipzig-Möckern. It has a large number of preserved tramcars, which are occasionally run on city streets . The museum is in Möckern, to the northwest of the city centre.
SOURCES
- Hendlmeier, W. Handbuch der deutschen Straßenbahngeschichte - Erster Band: Text und Abbildungen. München: Im Selbstverlag, 1981.
- Lehnhart, H. & Jeanmaire, C. Strassenbahnen in Osteuropa - Deutsche Demokratische Republik; Volksrepublik Polen. Villigen (Switzerland): Verlag Eisenbahn, 1975.
- Plang, H.J. "The tramways of Leipzig" Modern Tramway & Light Rail Review. Oct. 1964 (27: 322), p.333-344.
- Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile - No.61: Leipzig, Germany" Tramways & Urban Transit. Oct. 2012 (75: 898), p.383-386.
- Russell, M.J. "DDR update - Part 2: Central area systems" Modern Tramway & Light Rail Transit. Apr. 1989 (52: 616), p.14-125, 129.
- Schwandl, R. Schwandl's Tram Atlas Deutschland. Berlin: Author, 2009.
- Straßenbahnatlas 2005: Deutschland. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn e.V., 2005.
- Wansbeek, C.J. "Leipzig: Trams are the dominant force" Tramways & Urban Transit. Nov. 2003 (66: 791), p.416-419.
WIKIS
- History of trams in Leipzig
- Leipziger Elektrische Straßenbahn
- Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe
- Straßenbahn Leipzig
WEB SITES
- Eisenbahn- und Straßenbahnbilder aus Leipzig und Umgebung
- Leipzig (on UrbanRail.Net)
- Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe
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