Borsdorf is a municipality in the

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

district in

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Geography

Modern Borsdorf municipality consists of three historical villages: Borsdorf (originally the smallest among the three, serving as a toll station at the historical main road from Leipzig to Dresden), Panitzsch (a settlement of Slavic origin) and Zweenfurth (named after a river crossing). All three villages are situated along the Parthe river. Borsdorf is neighbouring

in the west, Taucha in the north,

Machern Machern () is a municipality in the Leipzig district in Saxony, Germany. It is in the vicinity of the city of Leipzig. Geography Machern lies 20 km east of Leipzig, about 10 km west of Wurzen over the river Mulde. The Leipzig-Riesa- ...

in the east and

Brandis Brandis () is a town in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 16 km east of Leipzig. Born in Brandis * Karl Bock (1922-2004), physician in the field of pediatric cardiology * Anneliese Zänsler (born 1927), opera and op ...

in the south-east.

Transport

Borsdorf is located at the railway mainline between Leipzig and Dresden. It is served by local commuter trains, the rapid transit network of S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland as well as the Regional Express train (

Regionalexpress In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h (top speed often 160 km/h) as it calls at ...

) Leipzig-Dresden. The municipality is linked to Leipzig via the B6 federal highway. The closest expressway is Bundesautobahn A14, approx. 4 km west of Borsdorf. Leipzig-Halle Airport can be reached within 30 minutes by car.

Gallery

File:Hugo Oehmichen Im Kindergarten.jpg, ''Im Kindergarten'' (In the

kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cent ...

), by Hugo Oehmichen (b. 1843 in Borsdorf) File:Bebel-Liebknecht-Gedenktafel Borsdorf.JPG,

August Bebel Ferdinand August Bebel (22 February 1840 – 13 August 1913) was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1869, which in 1875 mer ...

and Wilhelm Liebknecht stayed in Borsdorf between 1881 and 1891 during the

Anti-Socialist Laws The Anti-Socialist Laws or Socialist Laws (german: Sozialistengesetze; officially , approximately "Law against the public danger of Social Democratic endeavours") were a series of acts of the parliament of the German Empire, the first of which was ...

, the picture shows a commemorative plate outside the villa building where they lived.

Green Belt (Grüner Ring Leipzig)

Borsdorf is a member of 'Grüner Ring Leipzig' a coordination group of Leipzig and the surrounding municipalities. As part of this, the 'Grüner Ring' (green belt) bicycle round course is running through Borsdorf.

Sons and Daughters

Albrecht Gehse (* 1955), Painter, member of the Leipzig School, known i.a. for his portrait of Helmut Kohl in the Federal

German Chancellery The German Chancellery (german: Bundeskanzleramt, , more faithfully translated as ''Federal Chancellery'' or ''Office of the Federal Chancellor'') is an agency serving the executive office of the chancellor of Germany, the head of the federal gov ...

building, Berlin Sarah Klier (* 2. October 1990, was the last baby born in the

GDR East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

just two minutes before German reunification on midnight 2./3. October)

References

External links

* Leipzig (district) {{Leipzig-geo-stub