Leipzig rail hub: second construction phase completed

Since 2013, the Leipzig rail hub has been rebuilt as part of the major "Verkehrsprojekt Deutsche Einheit Nr. 8" project (515 km of new/upgraded lines Nuremberg-Erfurt-Halle/Leipzig-Berlin), including new entry/exit tracks at the main station toward Halle/Erfurt and Berlin; construction is scheduled to run until 2025. The 2nd construction phase comprised about six kilometers of new track, 32 switches and 20 signals, with a cost volume of roughly EUR 220 million. The source given in the list (bauprojekte.deutschebahn.com/p/leipzig) is no longer reachable (HTTP 404); a single documented event exactly on 13 Dec 2020 could not be verified, and per local press, work on the northern part of the hub (Wiederitzsch) reportedly continued until at least 2022.