Inland port (Hamburg)

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Inland port at the confluence of the Alsterfleet, behind it the elevated railway viaduct and the Slomanhaus

The inland port in Hamburg is the oldest part of the port of Hamburg that is still used as a port facility. It lies in front of the Nikolaifleet estuary and is separated from the Niederhafen in the west by the Niederbaum Bridge . The northern edge are the quays , which formed the first quays of the inland port from the 14th century , and the Otto Sill Bridge , which with the elevated railway viaduct spans the confluence area of ​​the Alsterfleet with the Schaartor lock . The Kehrwieder lies to the south . The inland port now only has a jetty at the quay, which can only be approached by inland waterway vessels , and a quay at Kehrwieder and mainly serves as the western exit of the customs canal . At times it is the location of the river boat church .

The inland port was expanded in the 16th century with an upstream roadstead when the main transshipment was still taking place in the inner-city Nikolaifleet. With the construction of the Hamburg ramparts at the beginning of the 17th century, the port was incorporated into the city with the creation of the tree wall . Due to the expansion of the movement of goods and the associated increase in ship sizes, this upstream part of the port became increasingly important, but at the turn of the 18th century it had to be expanded to include the Niederhafen in the Elbe . It served as a sailing ship port until 1880 , then the sailors were relocated to the Kleiner Grasbrook in order to clear the inland port as a passage for the customs canal in the course of the free port expansion. One last relic from the time of port handling is the new crane east of the Hohe Brücke . In 1858 this iron heavy-duty crane with integrated weighing device replaced a wooden crane that was built on the same site in 1568.

  • Inland port 1883, with a new crane, high bridge and outer and inner quays

  • Inland port 1885. Drawing by Johann Theobald Riefesell

  • Inland port with a view of the Kehrwieder; the river boat church at the pier

  • View from Kehrwieder to the eastern inland port with the confluence of the Nikolaifleet

  • The "New Crane" from 1858

literature

  • Arnold Kludas , Dieter Maass, Susanne Sabisch: Port of Hamburg. The history of the Hamburg free port from the beginnings to the present , Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0089-5

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