Waldstraßenviertel

Waldstraßenviertel (English: Forest Street Quarter/Neighbourhood), is a neighbourhood in the north west of Leipzig's borough Mitte in Saxony, Germany.

In the period from the 10th to the 12th century, numerous river regulation measures took place, for example the Elstermühlgraben (Elster mill ditch) was built and the Parthe was moved to the north.

To the north of it, the Hospital St. Georg (1212-1631)[4] was built between Elstermühlgraben and Pleisse on the edge of the Rosental in 1212 at the behest of Theodoric I, Margrave of Meissen.

The northern part, from Fregestrasse onwards, was built in open block perimeter buildings, often in the now modern achitectural style of Art Nouveau.

Architects from the turn of the century such as Paul Möbius, Emil Franz Hänsel and Raymund Brachmann created striking residential buildings.

[12] The Jews of the Waldstrasse district were mainly employed in the fur trading center around Brühl Street.

The building of the former Höhere Israelitische Schule (Higher Israelite School) on Gustav-Adolf-Strasse houses the German Central Library for the Blind.

In 1827/1828 the composer Heinrich Marschner lived in the house named Goldene Laute (Ranstädter Steinweg 8)[14] and completed his opera Der Vampyr here .

Albert Lortzing composed his opera Zar und Zimmermann (Tsar and Carpenter) in a garden house[15] in the Funkenburg.

The main streets of the Waldstrassenviertel are the Jahnallee which continuates the Ranstädter Steinweg coming from the city center and the Waldstrasse after that the neighbourhood is named.