The station building on Güntzstraße in the Stötteritz district, which had been derelict since the end of 2013, has now become the Lost Places scene.
Leipzig – The station building on Güntzstraße in the district, which has been derelict since the end of 2013 when the Leipzig City Tunnel started Support ridge has now become the Lost Places arena: with city district curator Henning Wetzel as an expert, the local citizens’ association guided interested people through the inner workings. To date there have been neither investors nor plans to use the unrenovated walls.
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City curator Henning Wetzel (from) gave a tour of the grounds of the old train station. © Anke Brod
The historic station was opened in December 1891 as a goods loading point and from May 1893 also served as a stop for passenger traffic. The operation soon increased, and so those responsible expanded the track system including two signal boxes.
From May 1, 1905, the station was officially called “Bahnhof Stötteritz”. A year later, the imposing, yellow brick reception building for travelers and servants was completed.
In order to electrify the “Saxon Triangle” with the cities of Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the system received overhead lines in the 1960s. Because of the economically good location on the freight ring, a large container transshipment point was also built in Stötteritz in 1968.
And with the birth of the Leipzig S-Bahn in 1969, the station functioned as the “Leipzig-Stötteritz stop”. The trains served the main station and back. This fast connection was particularly interesting for the business activities at the Alte Messe.
But since November 24, 2012, the section “Leipzig-HBf – Stötteritz” has been suspended forever after 134 years. Since then, the stylish station building has been living a bleak Sleeping Beauty existence. For S-Bahn users, since the opening of the City Tunnel in 2013, the address has only been a purely outdoor stop with stairs and elevator access.
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In order to protect the station building from destruction and deterioration after the end of use by Deutsche Bahn AG, the Leipzig Office for Building Regulations and Monument Preservation initiated the repair of the roof drainage in 2018. Windows and doors were also locked. The Monument Preservation Department regularly checks the property – especially for unauthorized entry.
According to Henning Wetzel, nothing is known about the sale of the station or the intentions of a potential new owner. A combined residential and community project with artistic, gastronomic or socio-cultural use would be conceivable here. Some citizens want that.
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It’s time: The forecourt has now degenerated into a dog poop and garbage dump …
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