Neustädter Hafen (Dresden)
The Neustädter Hafen is an inland port in the Saxon state capital Dresden on the eponymous Neustädter side of the Elbe in the Leipzig suburb . It was the first port in Saxony with a connection to the railway network and has been a listed building since 1993.
history
On the banks of the Elbe in Neudorf , a Dresden suburb and later part of the Leipzig suburb, a ship mill was located a little below today's port entrance , which the mill regulations of 1661 granted the compulsory meal over the villages of Pieschen , Trachau and Mickten . The Eichler miller family, who lived there in the 18th century, also owned a 2-hectare property on the banks of the river, on which residential and farm buildings stood and in later years the “Elbschlößchen” inn was operated as a sideline. The ship mill was lost during the spring flood in 1862. Ernst Otto Schlick , born in 1840, studied engineering at the Dresden Polytechnic from 1855 to 1863 , taking a two-year break for practical training from 1859 to 1861 and building the first steam boats during this phase. He acquired the miller's property on Leipziger Strasse and in November 1863 applied to the city council - as he was not yet 24 years old - for a special permit to operate a “factory for the construction of steam ships”. His company, which traded under the name of Otto Schlick, Maschinen- & Schiffbauanstalt Dresden-Neustadt , had a representative villa built as an administrative building in addition to various workshops by 1865 after the positive decision issued in February 1864 . It was beneficial that the plot of land on the bank had a suitable slope so that no earthworks were necessary to be able to take ships on land and launch them into the water. Down the river there was a timber trade that Ernst Grumbt bought in 1864 and expanded into a steam sawmill in 1868 (also with a representative villa since 1888 ). Other industrial plants in the vicinity were the chemical factory of Gehe & Co. , a branch of Villeroy & Boch on the inland side of Leipziger Strasse as well as storage and crane sheds with sidings to the Leipzig train station .
After Schlick left in 1869, the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1872 and traded as the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company . On the Elbe side of the property, the Neustädter Hafen was built from 1872 to 1876, also to relieve the Pieschener Hafen, which had been laid out around 20 years earlier, also on the right bank of the Elbe on the then city limits of Dresden on mainly Neudorf fields .
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In the years 1888/1889 the harbor basin was enlarged to 380 meters in length and 70 meters in width so that the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company could use the Neustädter Hafen as a winter port. As a result of the merger of the shipbuilding company with the Übigau shipyard in 1905, the company gave up this location and moved to the downstream location in Übigau , where larger ships could be built. In terms of cargo handling, the port was of secondary importance compared to the significantly larger König-Albert-Hafen, which was built on the Elbe side of the old town in the 1880s .
After the Second World War, the Dresden City Transport Authority laid a 425 m long track to the Neustädter Hafen in 1950, which was only used for the internal transport of goods (gravel and sand) by the Dresden tram .
Later the port was only used as a winter port for the White Fleet as well as for the permanent laying of passenger steamers that were no longer serviceable, long-term for scrapping or only for reserve.
After the political change , the port was placed under monument protection in 1993. In 2008, the larger than life bronze sculpture “Load Carriers”, which Constantin Meunier created in 1901 and which stood in a tourist garden between the Königstein and Lilienstein hotels on Prager Strasse in GDR times, was moved to the harbor .
MD Pöppelmann , 2004
YMCA youth ship, Kirchentag 2011
Of the four identical diesel-electric side wheel ships Ernst Thälmann , Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels and Wilhelm Pieck built in 1963 and 1964 at VEB Schiffswerft Roßlau for the White Fleet , two are in the Neustädter Hafen as hostel ships, the other two were scrapped. In 2000 the former Karl Marx was moored in the harbor basin. The ship, renamed M. D. Pöppelmann after the builder Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann in 1991 , has been operated as a tourist hostel since then, until 2012 by a municipal company under the name Die Koje , then privately as the Pöppelmann ship hostel from 2013. The sister ship J. F. Böttger (after the co-inventor of the European hard porcelain ; ex Friedrich Engels ) is regularly moored on the river side of the pier as a YMCA youth ship. In the summer of 2016 it had a regular stop at the Laubegast shipyard for a technical check. Due to the low water level of the Elbe, the shipyard stay was extended until March 2017.
A master plan for the Leipzig suburb - Neustädter Hafen ("Hafencity Dresden") was presented in 2010 to revitalize the fallow industrial areas , which also extends to the port and its immediate surroundings. This plan is controversial from various points of view, among other things because the construction of luxury apartments on the border of European protected areas and partly in the legally established floodplain of the Elbe are planned.
The Elbe Cycle Path leads along the harbor , with a few bars and a city beach at the harbor exit. As a result of the construction work for the Hafencity, the sandy beach was last in the 2017 season, the outdoor area was then drastically reduced and the neighboring Purobeach closed completely after the 2018 season. The ADFC Dresden had already criticized in 2013 that as a result of the construction plans, the potential for conflict on the Elbe Cycle Route at the level of the Hafencity is significantly increased and therefore recommended that a bridge be built over the Neustadt port entrance and the cycle route towards the pier , as with the Molenbrücke at Pieschener Hafen embarrassed.
Footnotes
- ^ History of the Hechtviertel. In: hechtviertelportal.de. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
- ^ A b Bertram kurz, Helmut Düntzsch: Werften in Dresden 1855-1945 . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (= workbook . Volume 6 ). Sax-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-934544-62-2 , p. 35 .
- ^ Sigbert Zesewitz: Shipbuilding on the Elbe . Sax-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-934544-78-9 , p. 122 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Leipzig suburb. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
- ↑ The history of D. Pöppelmann. In: schiffsherberge.de. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
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↑ Thomas Richter: Finally in the flow. YMCA Saxony, June 8, 2016, archived from the original on January 5, 2018 ; Retrieved July 19, 2016 . Andreas Frey: New perspectives for the YMCA youth ship. YMCA Saxony, September 20, 2016, archived from the original on September 28, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 . Andreas Frey: CVJM youth ship currently (almost) unreachable. YMCA Saxony, February 24, 2017, archived from the original on March 5, 2017 ; accessed on March 4, 2017 . Andreas Frey: YMCA youth ship back home! YMCA Saxony, March 10, 2017, archived from the original on January 5, 2018 ; accessed on January 4, 2018 .
- ^ Siiri Klose: Dresden & Sächsische Schweiz (= DuMont travel paperback ). DuMont Reiseverlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7701-7421-8 , pp. 216 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Sarah Herrmann: The new city beach of Dresden. In: Sächsische.de . April 13, 2018, accessed May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Caroline Staude: Everything has to go! Sale at Purobeach. In: TAG24 ( Dresdner Morgenpost ). February 15, 2018, accessed February 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Konrad Krause: Statement on the preliminary development plan no. 357 B, Dresden-Neustadt no. 39, Leipziger Strasse / Neustädter Hafen. (PDF; 71 kB) General German Bicycle Club Dresden eV, July 19, 2013, accessed on February 20, 2018 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '58 " N , 13 ° 43' 50" E