LENE-VOIGT-PARK
In the heart of the Reudnitz district, long neglected but increasingly prized by students and young workers, the park, named after the greatest Saxon poetess of expression, has an atypical, rectangular, elongated shape. With its visible gas pipelines in the background, but also its lawns so welcoming and very busy when the sun comes out (volleyball players, barbecues, sleepers...), it is a rather unusual place, typically East German. The park was built on the ruins of the Eilenburger Bahnhof, Leipzig's former eastern station, which was heavily damaged during the Allied bombardments of the Second World War. While the platforms and rails were still used (albeit less and less) during the communist era, the buildings, on the other hand, were simply razed to the ground one after the other. In 1997, the city decided to dismantle what was left of the railway infrastructure and transform it into a park. Five years later, the Lene-Voigt-Park was awarded a European distinction for its landscaping. In 2004, its 11 hectares became fully open to the public, who have been rushing there since then, in all weathers.
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