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22-591: The park is located in the Westvorstadt area of Leipzig, in the borough of Leipzig-Mitte . It is framed to the north-west by Ferdinand-Lassalle-Strasse , to the north-east by Paul-Gerhardt-Weg and Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse , to the south by Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse and to the south-west by Edvard-Grieg-Allee . Adjacent residential areas are the Bachviertel , the inner Westvorstadt and the Musikviertel. The Johannapark

44-640: A metropolis with more than 150,000 inhabitants. For example, Wattenscheid , which was a town in its own right until 1974, is now a Stadtbezirk within the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia . In Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, the term Ortsbezirk is also used for districts of smaller cities. A Stadtbezirk may consist of several smaller parts: Stadtteile or Ortsteile . While in some cities Stadtbezirke are only used for statistical purposes, many other Stadtbezirke have elected representatives. The tasks and responsibilities of

66-422: A big city. Due to incorporations, the urban area was soon no longer limited to Alt-Leipzig . In the census of 1895, a distinction was made between Alt-Leipzig with 183,000 people and Neu-Leipzig (New Leipzig) with 207,000 people. The population density was three times as high as it is today in the borough of Mitte, whose developed structure around 1900 was roughly as it is today. However, this does not change

88-507: A foundation from a capital that had been earmarked for my deceased daughter, which would not only perpetuate her name, but also the prevailing direction of her character 'to make others happy', prompted me to accept to buy the meadow of the wife of Professor Schwägrichen at the Kuhstrang. It is my intention to turn it into a park and to call it Johannapark." Seyfferth acquired the Martorff meadow on

110-455: A small island and two bridges was created in the center of the park. With Seyfferth's death in 1881, the park passed to the city of Leipzig in his will and testament , with the condition that the area should never be built over. It was again enlarged to a floor area of eight hectares (20 acres). With the construction of the Lutherkirche between 1884 and 1887, an architectural accent was set in

132-407: Is the work of the sculptor Klaus Friedrich Messerschmidt (* 1945). Opposite the park, there is the art museum Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst . 51°20′4.3908″N 12°21′45.058″E  /  51.334553000°N 12.36251611°E  / 51.334553000; 12.36251611 Leipzig-Mitte Leipzig-Mitte is one of ten boroughs ( Stadtbezirke ) of Leipzig , located in the center of

154-501: The Stadtbezirke are laid down in the municipal codes ( Gemeindeordnungen ) of the federal states . The details, compositions etc. of the Stadtbezirke and their representatives are laid down in the municipal by-law ( Hauptsatzung ) of the city. This article about government in Germany is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This German location article

176-486: The mighty city walls . Today's Mitte borough, on the other hand, also includes the suburbs , which essentially only developed after the gradual removal of the walls and ditches after the Seven Years' War . Previously, these were due to war events ( Schmalkaldic War and Thirty Years' War ) almost completely destroyed twice. Until the 1830s, only small areas outside of today's Zentrum were developed. These were limited to

198-637: The neo-Gothic style . The park came to its present dimensions by merging it with the gardens and grounds of some of the buildings destroyed in World War II . In 1955, the Johannapark was combined with the neighboring Albertpark , the Scheibenholzpark and the Palmengarten under the name "Clara Zetkin" Central Culture Park . Since April 2011, the park has returned to its old name, Johannapark . In 1896

220-555: The 20th century and the expansion of roads also led to major changes in the cityscape. Towards the end of the 20th century, the concept of a city center with few cars prevailed, while the inner city ring road has the highest traffic occupancy in Leipzig after the motorways . With the S-Bahn city tunnel opened in 2013, the Mitte borough has received a total of 4 underground train stations. In 1989,

242-627: The Mitte district made its place in world history with the Leipzig Monday demonstrations , which accelerated the end of the GDR and the Eastern bloc . Stadtbezirk A Stadtbezirk (also called Ortsbezirk in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate ) is an administrative division in Germany , which is part of a larger city. It is translated as " borough ". In Germany, Stadtbezirke usually only exist in

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264-540: The area of the German castle (urbs libzi) . It was in the area of today's Matthäikirchhof . Not far from there, the long-distance trade routes Via regia and Via imperii crossed in the Middle Ages, with the latter still being present in today's street name Reichsstraße . In the 13th century, the city of Leipzig extended only to the north beyond today's subdivision Zentrum and was limited to 42 hectares (100 acres) by

286-458: The banks of the Pleiße and some adjoining areas and let them convert into a park in the style of English landscape gardens according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866). The park was laid out by the Leipzig council gardener Otto Wittenberg (1834–1918). As is usual with Lenné, many exotic tree species were planted, giving the park the character of a botanical garden in places. A pond with

308-447: The borough Leipzig-Mitte, there are these 7 Ortsteile : The locality of Zentrum-Nordwest includes the quarter Waldstraßenviertel . On 30 June 2022, the borough Leipzig-Mitte had a population of 69,214. The development of today's Leipzig began in the area of today's Mitte borough. In the Brühl area, there was in the 7th/8th century a Slavic settlement, while the urban nucleus was in

330-555: The city erected the Seyfferth monument in the park for the donor . Inscription on the base: "To the donor of the Johannapark the grateful city" . The pedestal is by Hugo Licht (1841-1923), the marble bust by Melchior zur Strassen (1832-1896). A wall tomb of the Seyfferth family is located outside the choir of the Lutherkirche. The 1897 Leipzig memorial to Chancellor Bismarck by Adolf Lehnert (1862-1948) and Josef Mágr (1861-1924)

352-653: The city. It includes numerous architectural monuments. Most of them are located in the subdivision "Zentrum", which is sited inside the Inner City Ring Road and the Promenadenring : In the southwest of the borough, there is located a part of the Clara-Zetkin-Park and the Federal Administrative Court . In the northern part of the borough, there are Leipzig Zoo and Leipzig Central Station . In

374-567: The fact that, as Sebastian Ringel proves, hardly one stone has been left unturned and many buildings have been replaced by new ones over the course of time. Starting with the construction of the main train station, through the bombing of Leipzig in World War II (degree of destruction in the Mitte borough between 34 and 52%) and the changing reconstruction in the GDR , entire squares and streets disappeared. The increasing number of vehicles per capita in

396-485: The plans of the hydraulic engineers Kohl and Georgi in the years 1852 to 1854 and the subsequent redesign of the Leipzig River Network . In the course of the 19th century, the extensive public gardens that surrounded the inner city on all sides were gradually subdivided and built on. This led to a strong structural expansion of the suburbs, whereby Leipzig exceeded the 100,000-inhabitant mark in 1870 and became

418-798: The south-east of the borough, there are the Bavarian train station , the Russian Memorial Church and the Alte Messe near the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in the neighboring borough of Probstheida . The exit Leipzig-Mitte of the Bundesautobahn 14 is situated about 5 kilometres (3 miles) away in the north of Leipzig. In Leipzig, the subdivisions of the boroughs are called Ortsteil (localities). In

440-409: The trade routes accompanying the road, which were referred to as Steinweg (stone track). The city limits were pushed outwards and new gatehouses were built (within the Mitte borough). The area later called Alt-Leipzig (Old Leipzig) corresponds roughly, but not exactly, with today's Mitte borough. An important prerequisite for the development of its northwestern, western and southwestern areas were

462-518: Was created between 1858 and 1863 by the Leipzig entrepreneur and banker Wilhelm Theodor Seyfferth (1807-1881) at his own expense and later donated to the city. He wanted to commemorate his daughter Johanna Natalie Schulz , who died at the age of 21. According to tradition, she was broken when, according to her father's wishes, she had to marry the unloved Dr. Gustav Schulz . Full of remorse, her father thought of leaving something to posterity that would have been in her interest: "The idea of establishing

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484-500: Was destroyed in 1946. In 1967, the Clara Zetkin memorial by the sculptor Walter Arnold (1909-1979) was erected on the same site to mark her 110th birthday. In 1996, the Leipzig entrepreneur Walter Cramer (1886-1944), who was involved in the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) on 20 July 1944, was honored here with a memorial by the city of Leipzig. The stele made of black granite and green Saxon serpentinite

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