Leipzig Freight Ring

Most of the line was built by the Prussian state railways to the north and west of the Leipzig urban area.

The Royal Saxon State Railways built some connecting lines east of Leipzig, which in particular served to integrate the new Leipzig-Engelsdorf marshalling yard.

With the political and economic changes with the end of Communism, traffic fell at the turn of the 21st century and falling patronage led to the closure of the passenger service in 2002.

Nevertheless, on all lines there are authorised routes; the eastern part of the Freight Ring is, for example, used occasionally for diverted long-distance traffic between Berlin and Dresden.

With the commissioning of the City Tunnel on 15 December 2013, the section between Stötteritz and Paunsdorf was integrated in the network of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland.