Old love (Cuxhaven)
The old love is a former pier in the port of Cuxhaven , which now serves as a viewing platform . It is located at the river-side boundary of the Cuxhaven port to the fairway of the Lower Elbe . The ships to Neuwerk and Helgoland as well as to the sandbanks with the seals leave the harbor in the vicinity of the platform.
description
The structure was first erected in 1733 when three disused ships were sunk at this point. The ships were surrounded with stakes and the spaces between them were filled with stones and bushes. The aim was to fortify the port, which had been damaged by storm surges, and to secure the large beacon that marked the port entrance at the time.
The old love later served as a pier and was regularly renewed. In 1982 the structure was converted into a pure viewing platform. At the same time, the ailing wooden piles of the substructure were replaced by a reinforced concrete structure. Above it is now a two-story wooden pile building, from whose gallery visitors can watch the navigation on the Lower Elbe. From April to October, visitors are informed about the size and origin of the passing ships via a loudspeaker system every day between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. The ship announcement service Cuxhaven e. V. responsible for these announcements. The Cuxhaven wind semaphore , Hamburg lighthouse and the minesweeper monument are located near the Alte Liebe .
Surname
The name Alte Liebe is said to be derived from the foremost of the three sunken ships, which was called Die Liebe . According to another tradition, the name of the ship was Olivia . However, the population only called it Oliv , which phonetically corresponded to the Low German word for "Old Love" (= Ol 'Leev).
With the old love
The street Bei der Alten Liebe is a short street that leads from Cassen-Eils Straße and Am Alten Hafen street to the resident u. a. of the seaside resort Helgoland leads. On the street are the listed buildings Radar Tower from 1960, Semaphore from 1884, Hamburg lighthouse from 1804 and weather station from the 1920s, as well as lightship Elbe 1 from 1948 and the minesweeper monument from 1935.
See also
Alte Liebe is also the name of the daughter boat of the rescue cruiser Arwed Emminghaus and the wedding room in the town hall of Cuxhaven .
literature
- Joachim Pattberg: The old love of Cuxhaven. Construction calendar from 1725 to 1988 . Ed .: Förderverein Cuxhaven e. V. Eigenverlag, Cuxhaven 1990, ISBN 3-920709-27-6 .
- Peter Bussler: A consequence of the Christmas flood in 1717. The establishment of the "Old Love" in Cuxhaven . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 819 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2018, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 11.2 MB ; accessed on June 23, 2019]).
Web links
- 360 ° fullscreen panorama of the old love
- Follow ship announcements in addition to webcam on the Internet
Individual evidence
- ^ North Sea Spa Cuxhaven - Harbor & Ships - Old Love. In: Website City of Cuxhaven. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
- ^ A b Georg Hindrichson : Brockes and the Office Ritzebüttel 1735–1741 . tape 1 . Cuxhaven 1897, p. 2 ff . (Reprint 1982).
- ↑ The "Old Love" in Cuxhaven. In: Website Radio Bremen . January 7, 2014, accessed January 2, 2020 .
- ^ List of architectural monuments in Cuxhaven
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 21.7 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 38.4" E