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The ''Leipziger Parkeisenbahn'' (Leipzig park railway) is a
minimum gauge railway Minimum-gauge railways have a gauge of most commonly , , , , , or . The notion of minimum-gauge railways was originally developed by estate railways and the French company of Decauville for light railways, trench railways, mining, and farming ...
in
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 ...
,
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. The line is also known as the ''Parkeisenbahn Auensee''. The Railway was first opened in 1951 as "Pioniereisenbahn", one of the
children's railway A children's railway or pioneer railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where children interested in rail transport can learn railway professions. This phenomenon originated in the USSR and was greatly developed in Soviet times. T ...
s in the former
Eastern Bloc The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed du ...
Countries. The line of goes around a lake called Auensee (formed in 1909, from a gravel pit, the material used to build Leipzig Central Station).


See also

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Fifteen-inch gauge railway Fifteen-inch gauge railways were pioneered by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood who was interested in what he termed a minimum gauge railway for use as estate railways or to be easy to lay on, for instance, a battlefield. In 1874, he described the p ...


History

The line opened on 5 August 1951, the second children's railway in the
DDR DDR or ddr may refer to: *ddr, ISO 639-3 code for the Dhudhuroa language *DDr., title for a double doctorate in Germany *DDR, station code for Dadar railway station, Mumbai, India *' (German Democratic Republic), official name of the former East ...
. The railway survived the end of the DDR, and continues its original intention, the education and instruction of children.


External links


Official web site of the Leipziger Parkeisenbahn (in German)

Children's railways Parkeisenbahn Tourist attractions in Leipzig 15 in gauge railways in Germany {{Leipzig-geo-stub