Leipzig (official name: Landkreis Leipzig ) is a district ( Kreis ) in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany . It is named after the city of Leipzig , which borders onto the district, but the city is not part of the district. Leipzig district has borders with (from the west and clockwise) the state of Saxony-Anhalt , the urban district of Leipzig , the districts of Nordsachsen and Mittelsachsen , and the state of Thuringia .
11-580: The district is located in the lowlands around Leipzig, the Leipzig Bay , and is rather flat. Individual hills are found in the north ( Hohburg Hills ) and south of the district. Its main rivers are the Mulde , Pleiße and White Elster . Also worth mentioning are the many lakes of the Leipzig Neuseenland in the west of the county, which were formed by deliberately flooding old brown coal pits. The district
22-427: Is a relatively environmentally friendly option for freight transport compared to other modes of transportation such as air carriage and road transport , and similar to rail freight transport . Therefore, policy makers have been aiming to shift the volume of cargo transported by more pollutive means towards inland navigation in order to reduce the overall environmental impact of transport , for example, as part of
33-653: Is a very flat, originally lakeless and highly fertile plain in Central Germany , in northwestern Saxony and southeastern Saxony-Anhalt , anchored by the foothills of the Harz mountains in the northwest and of the Ore Mountains in the southeast. This region was originally covered with dense forests and meandering rivers. In the course of urbanization and lignite open pit mining , large areas were deforested and many rivers and streams canalised or diverted. The Leipzig Bay
44-760: Is bounded to the north by the Düben Heath , to the east by the River Elbe , to the south by the Ore Mountain Foreland and the Central Saxon Hills , and by the River Saale to the west. The conurbation formed by the two cities of Leipzig and Halle lies in the centre of the Leipzig Bay. Other important towns are Delitzsch , Eilenburg , Merseburg and Borna . The Leipzig Bay is a Young Drift landscape and
55-666: The European Green Deal (2019). To accomplish this, however, various challenges need to be tackled, including making inland navigation itself less pollutive than it has been, building larger barges and tows to increase their efficiency, and constructing or improving inland waterways navigable enough for the projected volume and size of ships (deep and wide enough, with mega-locks for differences in elevation) to avoid bottlenecks. The environmental effects of constructing, operating and maintaining inland navigation also need to be mitigated. This article related to water transport
66-421: The mid 20th century. The Leipzig region is historically, culturally and economically of huge importance to Central Germany . Although open-cast mining continues in the area, it is also being developed from an environmental and tourist perspective, through the reclamation of old lignite pits and mining facilities and their conversion into recreation areas, especially north and south of Leipzig. By flooding some
77-479: The mountain ranges was deposited. As a result of the creation of bogs and variable flooding , organic material was also deposited in this basin, which in turn was overlaid by sediments . Brown coal or lignite was formed from these deposits, which is covered by layers of sand and loess . The landscape is very well served by communications. A cardioid ring motorway runs around the Leipzig-Halle conurbation,
88-681: The open-cast mines many new lakes have been and are being created in the Leipzig Basin, which are gradually changing the face of the landscape. 51°00′00″N 13°00′00″E / 51.0000°N 13.0000°E / 51.0000; 13.0000 Inland shipping Inland navigation , inland barge transport or inland waterway transport ( IWT ) is a transport system allowing ships and barges to use inland waterways (such as canals , rivers and lakes ). These waterways have inland ports , marinas , quays, and wharfs. Modern researchers have long recognised that inland navigation
99-415: The so-called Central German Loop ( Mitteldeutsche Schleife ). Leipzig/Halle Airport is an important transport hub in the eastern German states. Railway lines and Bundesstraßen (federal roads) run in all directions of the compass, linking the Leipzig Bay with other parts of the country. Only inland shipping has no direct access to this region, although work on the unfinished Elster-Saale Canal began in
110-650: The southernmost part of the North German Plain . The landscape is essentially a plain broken only by low eminences such as the Hohburg Hills and dissected by the valleys of the Saale , White Elster , Mulde , and Pleiße rivers. The Leipzig Bay was formed during the Tertiary period. When the Ore Mountains and Vogtland were uplifted, a basin was formed as a compensating movement, into which weathering material from
121-448: Was established by merging the former districts Muldentalkreis and Leipziger Land as part of the district reform of August 2008. [REDACTED] Media related to Landkreis Leipzig at Wikimedia Commons 51°11′N 12°36′E / 51.183°N 12.600°E / 51.183; 12.600 Leipzig Bay The Leipzig Bay ( German : Leipziger Tieflandsbucht ) or Leipzig Basin or Saxon Lowland or Saxon Bay
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