Leipzig-Wahren Station
Leipzig-Wahren station is a station in the Leipzig suburb of Wahren in the German state of Saxony. At the beginning of the 20th century, a large freight yard was developed at it. Until the end of marshalling of trains on 31 December 1994, the Leipzig-Wahren freight yard was along with Leipzig-Engelsdorf station, Engelsdorf (b Leipzig) one of the two major marshalling yards in the Leipzig rail node. Today the station has two passenger halts, ''Leipzig-Wahren'' and ''Leipzig-Lützschena'', as well as a transshipment facility for combined transport. History Wahren station was opened on the Magdeburg–Leipzig railway, initially only for passenger traffic, on 1 August 1884. At the beginning of the 20th century, all marshalling yards were moved from central Leipzig to the suburbs. This included the Leipzig-Wahren freight yard, which was opened on 9 April 1905. The Prussian state railways connected the station with the Leipzig-Leutzsch–Leipzig-Wahren railway, Leipzig-Leutzsch–Lei ...
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Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of , and the sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants. The term Saxony has been in use for more than a millennium. It was used for the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, and twice for a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was established in 1918 as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. After World War II, it was under Soviet occupation before it became part of the communist East Ger ...
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