Goerdelerring is a street and large tram

Tram

A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...

way station in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

, Germany

Germany

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. It is named after Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime...

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The street

The street Goerdelerring is part of the city circle of Leipzig, leading the traffic around the city center. It is 832 meters long and reaches from the branch of the Ranstädter Steinweg to the branch of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße in a mainly northeast-southwest direction. The street has three lanes for car traffic in each direction and two tracks for tramways in the middle which are also used by night busses.

There are no buildings immediately next to the street. Nevertheless, there are buildings with the address Goerdelerring. The most important one is the main firehouse

Fire station

A fire station is a structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus , personal protective equipment, fire hose, fire extinguishers, and other fire extinguishing equipment...

. On the eastern side there is a small green area, on the western side the parking area of the firehouse and the Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer are situated. The continuation on the city circle is made by the Dittrichring to the south and the Tröndlinring to the east. The crossing that forms the northern end of the Goerdelerring and the northwestern edge of the city circle is one of the busiest crossings in Leipzig.

Until 1945 the street was named Fleischerplatz, the northern crossing had the name Schulplatz. From 1945 to 1991 the whole street was named Friedrich-Engels-Platz after Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...

, and on 1 January 1992 the street got its actual name Goerdelerring.

The tramway station

The tramway station Goerdelerring, served by the Leipzig Transport Company, is situated in the middle of the Tröndlinring, immediately east of the crossing that forms the northern end of the Goerdelerring. It was built in 1964 during a reconstruction of the alignment of the city circle. Until 1964 the tracks lay north of today's route nearer to the buildings. The street was widened and a large tramway station with four tracks has been built. Today, the tramway lines 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14 and 15 and the nightbus lines N1, N2, N3, N4 and N5 are serving the station making it one of the busiest tramway stations in Leipzig. On weekdays 90 trams per hour stop at Goerdelerring which means one tram every 40 seconds.

External links

• Further information about the Goerdelerring at leipzig-lexikon.de (in German)
• Official site of the Leipzig Transport Company, with information about the tramway network (available in English)