Deutz harbor
| Deutz harbor | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE CGN | ||
| owner | modern city GmbH | ||
| operator | Rheincargo GmbH & Co. KG | ||
| opening | 1417 | ||
| Port type | Inland port | ||
| Throughput | 295,000 t (2011) | ||
| website | http://www.modernestadt.de | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Cologne-Deutz | ||
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 55 '29 " N , 6 ° 58' 35" E | ||
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The Deutzer Hafen is a Cologne port on the right bank of the Rhine with commercial use and cargo handling in the Cologne district of Deutz at Rhine km 687.3.
history
For a long time there was only a small port in Deutz as a shelter for the ferry boats and facilities on the connection from Deutz to Cologne, as well as a port for the Deutz pioneers. Emperor Otto I granted his brother Archbishop Bruno I the right to ferry between Deutz and Cologne as a hereditary shelf . Archbishop Dietrich II of Moers confirmed on July 20, 1417 the establishment of the Deutz Rhine ferry for trade as "Erbfähre" ( ferry rights ) and on November 10, 1428 issued a feudal letter in favor of "Heinze Pyffen, Hermann van der Eycke, Tejlen Key , Johan vame Dycke, Johan Michaeils, Johan von Ercklens, Elger van Duytz and Heintzen van Wesselink ”. In the absence of bridges, there was a regular ferry service between Deutz and the opposite Cologne. On July 9, 1595, about 50 people died when a Deutz ferry went down below Salzgasse; only a few were rescued. In 1674 a flying yaw bridge was set up in place of the ferry traffic, and on February 5, 1676 Archbishop Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern enfeoffed the Electoral Cologne Chamber Council Johann Hermann von Kempis with ferry rights.
The bollard heads were built from 1560 as a bank reinforcement system, which largely fell victim to the heavy flooding of February 27, 1784. The last parts of the bollard heads protruding into the Rhine were removed during the construction of the Deutz port. They arose out of concern that the Rhine might look for a new river bed. The Werth bollard played a role in this. It was a peninsula, the rest of which today forms the Deutz port. The repair of the Rhine breakthrough at Poller Werth in 1575/1576 cost the city 34,502 Cologne guilders. Before the incorporation he belonged to the electoral office of Deutz. The old arm of the Rhine here was called "Schnellert" and was a popular destination until around 1900.
The strict rayon regulations forbade building in the vicinity of the fortresses until 1907, so that the construction of a Deutz port was out of the question. With the opening of the first section of the Cologne-Mindener Railway to Düsseldorf on December 20, 1845 and increasing industrialization, the requirement for a dedicated Deutz port arose. The van der Zypen & Charlier wagon factory began producing railway wagons on December 14, 1845, not far from the station. On March 31, 1864 NA Otto & Compagnie was founded , the origin of the Deutz gas engine factory and later Deutz AG , the world's first engine factory. Another potential main customer of a possible port of Deutz was the later Chemical Factory Kalk, founded on November 1, 1858 . The area of what will later become the Deutz port was already flooded during the flood on November 29, 1882 with a water level of 10.52 meters at the Cologne level ; on December 23, 1993 and January 21, 1995, large parts of the commercial and industrial areas of the Deutz port area were flooded.
The Werthchen bollard and the old arm of the Rhine “Schnellert” enabled similar technical port conditions as the Rheinauhafen opposite . The first excavation and dredging work was carried out in 1895. Due to lengthy expropriations, the port construction did not begin until 1904, on December 14, 1907 the port opened. The two port basins were separated by the opening of the listed, electrically operated 177 t swing bridge in March 1908. The southern basin functioned as an industrial and winter port, covered an area of 6 hectares and had a width of 50–135 meters. The width at the pool head is 88 m, at the port entrance 70 m. The smaller northern basin measured 3.5 hectares and served as a security harbor. The outer harbor area in Deutz originally extended as far as the Deutz bridge with a 700 meter long quay . In 1909, the new port acquired the Leysieffer & Lietzmann-Mühle AG mills as its first major customer; from 1964 it was called Ellmühle . Another mill customer was the Heinrich Auer -Großmühle, which was also taken over by Kampffmeyer in 1975. Both mills were merged in 1975 as Ellmühle , which is now one of the most important mills in Europe with an annual capacity of 365,000 tons. In the 1920s there were 4 electric and 3 steam-powered cranes in the harbor. This was followed by the Kalk Chemical Factory, which handled bulk goods, especially salt and phosphates, here until it closed in December 1993.
The fire boats of the Cologne professional fire brigade have been stationed at the swing bridge since 1994 . The guard was previously in the area of today's Chocolate Museum at the Rheinauhafen. The water police has had its investor in the Deutz port since 1998.
Today, grain is handled in the port, mainly from the Ellmühle, which belongs to the Kampffmeyer Mühlen, as well as animal feed, liquid chalk and scrap.
port
The harbor basin is on average 82 meters wide and 1,098 meters long. The water area measures 123,700 m² (34% of the total area). The land area is 240,700 m². It is an inner-city industrial port with predominantly commercial uses and a cargo turnover of 295,000 tons (2011).
Of the land area of the port, 24,200 m² are allocated to Ellmühle , 20,800 m² to Strabag AG, 11,400 m² to Carl J. Weiler Eisen & Stahl GmbH & Co. KG and a small part to Alfred H. Schütte GmbH & Co. KG . A total of 118,400 m² of commercial space related to the port is available. The annual port handling is handled by 5 port cranes for 216 ships. Today just under 60% of the commercial space is still used by the port. The vacant space makes up 20% of the area, the remaining 20% commercial space has no direct connection to the port facility.
Until 2016, around 70% of the port area belonged to Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG (HGK), an affiliate of Stadtwerke Köln GmbH (SWK) and the City of Cologne.
In 2017 the port areas of the HGK - including the water areas of the port basin up to the historic swing bridge - became the property of the modern city society for the promotion of urban development and community development mbH (modern city). Moderne stadt is a project and urban development company that is held by SWK and the city of Cologne.
Until December 31, 2020, HGK and its holding company RheinCargo GmbH & Co. KG (RheinCargo) were granted contractually unlimited rights of use for the port areas. Up until this point in time, RheinCargo has been the port operator there.
From 2021, the urban restructuring of the Deutzer Hafen will take place with its total area of around 35 hectares.
economy
The image of the Deutzer Hafen dominates the Ellmühle of the GoodMills Germany group of companies (formerly: Kampffmeyer Mühlen ). 365,000 tons of grain (wheat and rye) are ground in the Ellmühle annually. The mill complex has a storage capacity of 60,000 t of grain. The grain deliveries are made by ship, train and truck. The delivery is carried out with bulk vehicles and in bulk to major customers. In August 2016, the company announced that it would give up its previous location in Deutz Hafen and sell the property on the swing bridge to Siegburger Strasse to the city of Cologne. Production at the old location is contractually secured until the end of 2020. The company is currently reviewing several locations.
Another operation that dominates the picture of the port is the facility from Theo Steil GmbH . The recycling company and scrap dealers are represented on both sides of the harbor basin and are also connected to the rail network. In addition, the company Carl J. Weiler (steel trade) stands out with its large crane system, the crane runway protrudes beyond the quay wall. At Weiler, barges, rail wagons and trucks can be loaded and unloaded using a crane system. Omya , an international company, maintains a tank farm for calcium carbonate directly at the swing bridge. The German Asphalt GmbH (subsidiary of Strabag AG) operates an asphalt mixing plant in Deutzer harbor. Timber companies that used to settle here have now given up their location in the port.
With the event hall " Essigfabrik " and the "Elektroküche" as well as the "Frauenautohaus" companies from outside the port have now settled.
After the hurricane "Kyrill" around 100,000 tons of tree trunks - mainly from the Sauerland - were loaded onto ships in the Deutz port. The recipient was a French sawmill in the Strasbourg area.
future
In the course of the development of the opposite Rheinauhafen into a service and residential location, the future of the Deutz Hafen as an inner-city industrial harbor was discussed again. The discussion was fueled by increasing vacancies in the outdated commercial properties, the fallow land and the resulting urban development deficiencies. As early as autumn 2005, the Department of Urban Development, Planning and Building of the City of Cologne organized the first information and discussion events with neighbors and businesses in the Deutz port.
- Site investigation: Against the background of the discussions of the Council of the City of Cologne in September 2007 and in November 2008 - during which a binding clarification of the future development of the Deutz port was requested - the administration of the city of Cologne published the "Site investigation Deutzer Hafen" in December 2008 in front. The site survey describes the mandatory requirements (necessary upgrading of the logistics site) and alternative development options (conversion for living and working). In order to be able to economically maintain the industrial port operations of the Deutz Hafen in the long term, it would have had to be converted and expanded. The consequence would be more truck traffic in the midst of densely populated residential developments in the city center, which would have led to foreseeable conflicts. On March 26th, 2009, the council commissioned the administration of the city of Cologne to carry out a planning workshop based on the "Deutz Hafen location investigation". The planning workshop took place on April 27 and 28, 2009 as a two-day symposium with 16 specialist speakers and around 150 participants. This included experts from the areas of office location development, housing, creative industries, urban development / urban planning, logistics, inland shipping / port management and water management. The main result of the symposium was the recommendation to draw up a binding development concept for the future use of the port.
- Development concept: With the decision of the council of September 10th, 2009 the administration of the city of Cologne was commissioned with the creation of a development concept according to § 1 paragraph 6 number 11 of the building code with a partial conversion of port areas.
- Moratorium resolution: In May 2010, the representatives of the City of Cologne on the HGK's supervisory board were instructed in a so-called moratorium resolution by the City of Cologne to ensure that the company does not conclude any rental and lease agreements beyond 2020. The subsequent relocation of the businesses located in the Deutz port should be carried out in a socially and economically acceptable manner. With the "moratorium decision", the conversion of the Deutz port was given a temporal perspective for the first time.
- Feasibility study: A feasibility study published at the end of 2014 showed that the risk of flooding does not necessarily increase in the event of a change of use, but can even be reduced through clever urban planning. According to the study, quays and water-based zones can be left out of the development, large areas can be freed from their previous use and modeled into valuable open spaces so that additional flood areas would be available in the event of a flood. In addition, the construction of underground garages that can be flooded in an emergency and the expansion of the harbor basin in the south could create additional retention areas.
- Fundamental decision on the future of the Deutz Port: In June 2015, based on the findings of the feasibility study, the Cologne City Council made a fundamental decision in favor of converting the port into an office and residential area. Housing for up to 6,900 residents and 7,000 jobs can be created here. These requirements were introduced by the administration of the city of Cologne in the ongoing procedure for the draft of the new state development plan (LEP / E) in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The previously planned portrayal of the Deutz port as a 'port of importance to the country' has been dispensed with. A corresponding amendment procedure to the regional plan, sub-area Cologne, was also initiated.
- Urban planning appraisal procedure : With the implementation of an urban planning appraisal procedure with the participation of the citizens of the city of Cologne, the course was set for the conversion of the Deutz port. Since February 2016, five interdisciplinary teams from internationally renowned planning offices and with the participation of the city society had been concerned with the question of what the Cologne Veedel of tomorrow might look like. The most convincing answer came from the Copenhagen office COBE Architects. The design scored among other things with the successful integration of the industrial port heritage, which should not only find expression in the preservation of the crane runways and the former fire-fighting crane. The design takes up the motifs of the port and the mill buildings located there and makes them the “DNA” of the new district. Different structures not only ensure architectural diversity, but also a lively social mix - at least a third of the apartments should be built in subsidized housing. The open space in the north, which exposes parts of the two mill buildings that are worth seeing, was welcomed by both the advisory committee and the citizens alike. As the largest public open space and industrial monument, the harbor basin is accompanied by other parks and public spaces, creating a connection to the landscape for every location in the quarter. The difference in level between the current edge of the harbor and the flood-safe area is partially offset by high-quality, handicapped-accessible staircases. The east side of the harbor basin is formulated as an urban bank, while the west side has a green character. This planning culminated in a water basin at the southern end of the harbor basin, which offers a view over the harbor basin to the towers of the cathedral. The planned five sub-quarters can either be built one after the other or partly at the same time.
- Integrated plan: The COBE draft was deepened in 2017 as part of an integrated planning process which, in addition to the classic subjects of engineering planning (traffic and urban planning), also takes geography, ecology, economy and possibly social aspects into account. The integrated plan was presented to the citizens of the city in March 2018 and final suggestions were incorporated.
The company modern city wants to develop the site from 2021 in close coordination with the city of Cologne as a mixed and lively quarter. The aim is to have a variety of uses with the most varied forms of living (30 percent of which are publicly funded), with offices, creative and service industries, cultural institutions and attractive public open spaces and recreational areas.
Web links
- influential. Cologne and its ports - historical archive of the city of Cologne
- City of Cologne - Official website of the city of Cologne on the Deutzer Hafen
- modernestadt.de - Official website of moderne stadt GmbH for the Deutzer Hafen project
- hgk.de - Official website of Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG with facts about the port of Deutz
- rheincargo.de - Official website of Rheincargo GmbH & Co. KG, operator of the Deutz port
- Rhenish industrial culture - historical facts about the Deutz port
- Life at the Deutzer Hafen - private website of the icon Kommunikation für Kultur und Wirtschaft GmbH about the Deutz Hafen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willi Spiertz, Eberhard von Groote , 2007, p 162
- ^ Josef Elben, The Deutz-Kölner Rheinfähre as Kurkölner Regal , Volume 9, 1933, p. 10, p. 452
- ↑ Peter Fuchs (Ed.), Chronicle of the History of the City of Cologne , Volume 2, 1991, p. 69
- ↑ Ludwig Röhrscheid, Rheinische Vierteljahresblätter , Volume 69, 2005, p. 198
- ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Bergerhausen, The City of Cologne and the Imperial Assemblies in the Confessional Age , 1990, p. 205
- ↑ Industrial culture over the Deutz port
- ↑ a b 4dd: Port of Cologne-Deutz - Ports and Freight Transport Cologne AG. Retrieved on March 14, 2018 (German).
- ^ City of Cologne, future use of the Deutzer Hafen , symposium from 27./28. April 2009
- ↑ modern city - society for the promotion of urban development of the city of Cologne. Retrieved on March 14, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Cologne Ellmühle relocates , goodmills.de, accessed on December 21, 2016
- ^ Website of Theodor Steil GmbH
- ^ Website of the Carl J. Weiler
- ↑ Omya website ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Women's car dealership (PDF)
- ↑ Deutzer Hafen. Retrieved March 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Site survey of the Deutzer Hafen. Retrieved March 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Site survey of the Deutzer Hafen. Retrieved March 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Martin Mirgel, Oliver Wruck: Sub- section Cologne region, 25th change of plan: Conversion of the commercial and industrial settlement area (GIB) in the general settlement area (ASB) in the area of the Deutzer Hafen, city of Cologne. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 15, 2018 ; accessed on March 14, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Deutzer Hafen Köln - Downloads, documents archive . In: Deutzer Hafen Newsletter . ( deutzer-hafen.info [accessed on March 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Integrated map of the Deutz port . In: Deutzer Hafen Köln Cologne . February 19, 2018 ( deutzerhafen.com [accessed March 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Deutzer Hafen - modern city . In: modern city . ( modernestadt.de [accessed on March 14, 2018]).
