[2] The Zeppelin Bridge carries the Jahnallee (Bundesstraße 87) with two lanes in each direction, a double-track tram line and a combined pedestrian and cycle path on both sides over the Elster basin.

A mighty dam was built in front of Lindenau more than a thousand years ago, which led the old trade route Via Regia over the marshy Elster-Luppe-Aue to Leipzig.

[3] Around 1740, the Saxon court painter Johann Alexander Thiele (1685–1752) made a painting under the title Look from Lindenau to Leipzig.

"The generously dimensioned median of the new road section with a special track bed was rightly considered a progressive and promising solution for local public transport at the time.

At around 8:56 p.m. on 20 October 1943, the tram driver Burkert, the conductor Fasold and eleven passengers became some of the first casualties of the air raids on Leipzig during World War II.

The passengers sought shelter on the riverside path while Burkert and Fasold diligently drove their railcar towards town onto roadbed as the bombs fell.