Last Sunday was the Mietz and I, along with Stabru Frank once again on the big Lost Place tour and thereby have chosen five-place Lost and found caches in Leipzig. When you open Eye travels through the city seems to be just Leipzig, to develop into one big lost place well on its way. So many empty buildings, only the dilapidated state until the dilapidated ruin, I have seen such a small area anywhere else. In part, these are even in the middle of town, almost next to the new buildings in the center or take renewed after the turn of Central Station.
In recent years many of these buildings were moved to Lost-place caches. Special (also national) attention in the geocaching scene has to be the "wedding you" acquired series, and rightly so. Old industrial buildings, printing plants, the former flour mills and underground escape bunkers are just a few examples of places that are introduced in this series. This weekend we have among others the geocaches GC1WWH1 "Trust you 20 - Old Customs House" and GC1NFFK "Trust yourself 17 - retirement Postbahnhof Leipzig" visits.
At the beginning of the 20th Century showed that the old Leipzig railway mail facilities to the ever-increasing mail traffic had grown less and less. Therefore, the establishment of a new central post office railway station and railway post office was decided. As the site was an area north of the Leipzig-Dresden railway line to the southern corridor Schönefelder selected. The total costs amounted including the acquisition of land by the 5 million mark. On 1 February 1912, almost three years before the opening of the Leipzig Central Station could post the Leipzig station will be commissioned.
The main building of the Leipzig post station is 200 m long and has a covered area of 16,000 square feet. The achtbogige hall is designed as a terminal station object spanned 26 tracks (13 and 13 for the Prussian king for the Saxon State Railways) and 16 platforms. The place for up to 90 railway mail cars made the biggest railway station to the Leipzig post delivery system of its time. In the year 1913 in the postal station Leipzig 10.4 million units and 4.8 million pieces of outgoing incoming packets handled. Were also added another 36 million units in transit.
Over time, the postal station has been continuously extended and improved technically. It was made in 1936 of a large pipe Pond Road extension completed, the operational requirements could meet up to the closing 1994th With the transformation of the German Federal Post Office in the German Post AG asked this one the web Post throughout the country and moved the mail transport on the road and into the air. The listed building facilities of the Leipzig railway station post vacant since then.
following I would like a few illustrative pictures of the morbid fascination and the beauty imagine this lost places. Overall, I'm in the hours we spent on the site, shot 190 photos that I post on this course, not all. Rational observer might see in these pictures may only decline, imaginative people will open up, however, that here every stone breathes the breath of history. At this point, but expressly stated that the admission of such a site, of course, is always at your own risk. Every visitor should always be the personal responsibility of his actions are conscious.
Rear view of station buildings:
View of station hall and administrative wing:
view through the well-preserved train station:
Colorful graffiti on the wall to the office section:
office on the ground floor of the delivery area:
Definitely no proper storage of old files:
Well-preserved laundry room, even with paper in the dispenser:
dim light by semi-blind window:
Atmospheric "light-installation" in an office:
pipe maze in a dusty, decaying cellar
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