Stadtteilrundgang: NS-Zwangsarbeit in Reudnitz

with Iris Detsch

During the National Socialist era, Reudnitz-Thonberg was a central location for forced labor in Leipzig. Hundreds of thousands of people who were forcibly recruited from German-occupied countries were forced to perform forced labor in Leipzig factories from small to large. During the war, transports of up to 1000 people arrived weekly at Eilenburg train station (today's Lene-Voigt-Park) and then marched on foot through Reudnitz-Thonberg to the municipal labor institute in Riebeckstrasse. This was the central distribution point for forced labor in Leipzig. There, the forced laborers were registered by the police, deloused and then distributed to Leipzig businesses.

During the tour, we will visit the places relevant to Reudnitz: the former Riebeck brewery and today's Sternburg brewery and the site of the former Karl Krause machine factory.

At the stations, we will look at individual aspects of Nazi forced labor: how were the transports carried out, what were the working and living conditions like and was there resistance to forced labor in Leipzig?

Meeting point: Lene-Voigt-Park, Eilenburger Straße, near the volleyball court (duration approx. 1½ hours)
Streetcar 4, Bus 60 (Riebeckstr./Oststr.)