Hello Leipzig: Here’s how Thursday 10 September 2026 gets off to a start

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Today, the city is presenting its construction site plan for one of the most important junctions in Leipzig’s transport network. Residents are invited to join the event online. Train passengers travelling towards Dresden will once again have to take the bus overnight. And this evening, the KUB Gallery is hosting a special event dedicated to a dark chapter in the city’s history of far-right extremism.

The city’s plans for Torgauer Platz

Leipzig is set to undergo construction work which, due to its location, will cause diversions and noise for quite some time. The Leipzig Group therefore intends to explain today, at a digital information event, what restrictions tram passengers and motorists can expect at Torgauer Platz. The livestream begins at 6.30 pm.

The project affects numerous parts of the infrastructure at this transport hub, which is regarded as a key gateway from the city to the north-eastern surrounding area. The works will involve the renewal of roadways and footpaths, street lighting and traffic lights, tram tracks, overhead lines, tram stops and the water network. In addition, new footpaths, cycle paths and green spaces are planned. Twenty-four new trees are to be planted and a new drinking fountain installed.

The tram stops at Torgauer Platz will be refurbished to make them accessible. According to the Leipzig Group, the tram line is expected to be fully closed from March 2027 to June 2028. Specific timetables will be published two weeks before work begins. Motorists must also prepare for significant restrictions based on the current state of planning: Torgauer Straße and Eisenbahnstraße will be closed to motor vehicle traffic for the entire duration of the works.

No prior registration is required to take part in the online event. Questions can be sent by email until the start of the information session: torgauer-platz@leipzig.de.
Access to the livestream will be available from 6.30 pm HERE ONLINE
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Memories of forced labour in Leipzig

Deported, abused, humiliated. The forced labour of prisoners of war was a perfidious part of the Nazi regime’s policy of terror during the Second World War. Driven by racial delusions of grandeur, the Nazis and their civilian collaborators forced people – particularly in the armaments industry – to manufacture military goods such as ammunition and vehicle parts under the most appalling conditions; goods which were ultimately used in the fight against the prisoners’ own homelands.

A trail of blood that also runs through Leipzig – and is increasingly being forgotten. For 25 years, the Memorial to Forced Labour has been dedicated to addressing the repression of this chapter of German history. It opened on 12 December 2001 and was the first of its kind in Germany to be explicitly dedicated to this subject. This was preceded in 2000 by a resolution of the Leipzig City Council to establish such a site.

It was established on the site of the former HASAG factory, now the Science Park on Permoserstraße. HASAG was once Saxony’s largest arms manufacturer. The memorial collects historical artefacts and serves as a point of contact for former forced labourers and their relatives.

With the discussion event ‘What Remains: Families Remember Nazi Forced Labour’, the KUB Gallery in the south of Leipzig is commemorating the crimes of forced labour and the work of the memorial this evening at 7 pm. Four relatives of former prisoners from different countries will recount their families’ histories. Their ancestors were deported to Leipzig for forced labour during the Nazi era.

The discussion will focus on what the descendants have learnt about this period, and what has been remembered or kept silent within their families. The event will be moderated by Anne Friebel from the Leipzig Memorial to Forced Labour.

The KUB Gallery is located diagonally opposite the popular ‘Schnellbuffet Süd’ and can be reached by tram lines 9, 10 and 11 via the Richard-Lehmann-Straße/HTWK stop.

Anyone wishing to explore the history – and, above all, the geographical extent – of forced labour, particularly within the Leipzig city area, will find THIS interactive and painstakingly researched map of the satellite camps of the major concentration camp sites, located right in our neighbourhoods, a fascinating resource.

Imprisonment, humiliation and exploitation were not secrets hidden away somewhere in the distant reaches of the Ettersberg quarry. The perpetrators came from the neighbourhood, and it was there too that their victims were held captive and tortured.

Commuters face delays due to railway works

Passengers on the regional train between Leipzig and Dresden will need to allow considerably more time from this evening onwards. From 9.00 pm, due to construction work between Riesa and Oschatz, RE 50 services between Wurzen and Riesa will be suspended. The closure affects both directions and, according to DB Regio AG, will last until Friday, 11 September, at 1.45 am.

A replacement bus service will be provided on the section affected by the train cancellations. The timetable change has already been incorporated into the timetable information. For passengers wishing to travel on from Riesa towards Dresden during the night, an additional service has also been arranged: RE 92241 departs Riesa at 0.43 am and is scheduled to arrive at Dresden Central Station at 1.34 am. En route, the train will call at Glaubitz, Nünchritz, Priestewitz, Niederau, Weinböhla, Coswig, Radebeul Ost, Dresden-Neustadt and Dresden Mitte.

A few hours before the night-time train cancellations, there will be a further timetable change on the RE 50 due to engineering works. Because of works in the Priestewitz area, the RE 16528 will depart from Priestewitz towards Leipzig Central Station later than usual on Thursday. The train is scheduled to depart from Dresden Central Station at 18:12. DB Regio has specified that this disruption on 10 September will take place between 18:45 and 20:05.

This means that on Thursday, passengers travelling between Dresden and Leipzig must initially expect later journey times in the early evening and, from 9.00 pm onwards, significantly greater disruption due to the train cancellation between Riesa and Wurzen.