Freudenau harbor
The port of Freudenau , also known as the winter port , is a freight port on the right bank of the Danube (river kilometer 1920.1) in Freudenau, a Viennese district in the 2nd district of Leopoldstadt . It is the largest public Danube port in Austria and at the same time the largest trimodal (networking: rail, road, ship) freight transport center in Austria. In addition to the Lobau oil port and three other ports, the port belongs to the Wiener Hafen Group , which is owned by the City of Vienna through Wien Holding .
The approximately 140 hectare port area houses the handling facilities for bulk goods and raw materials, a container terminal, a car terminal, halls and storage areas, distribution centers for branded goods, the largest free customs warehouse in Austria with a customs office and its own police station, and the management and administration of the Vienna harbor. The port of Freudenau also serves as a protective and winter port.
history
After the regulation of the Danube was completed in 1875, a former branch of the Danube was used on the right bank of the main stream to overwinter the Danube ships. From 1889, this area was expanded into a protective harbor in the event of floods and ice, as well as a winter harbor. It was opened in 1902. Originally the port - planning target 1900: trading port - consisted of a broad main port and a side port to the south-west of it (so-called inner port ); areas were devoted to extensions to the south . This side port was gradually filled in in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in favor of the duty-free zone ; however, various street names have been preserved to this day.
After the flood event of August 2002 , when the port of Freudenau was partially up to 1.20 m under water, a port gate was built to protect against flooding. This port gate with a clear passage width of about 26.5 m is a sliding gate construction and is located next to the Freudenau port bridge built in 1958 .
In 2008 the new container terminal with two gantry cranes went into operation. The gap between the Danube bank and Donauländebahn was also closed . For this purpose, the Winterhafenbrücke was built right next to the Freudenauer Hafenbrücke with a length of around 168 m as the central link. In 2013, the third largest trimodal container terminal in Europe was upgraded with a third crane bridge.
Picture gallery
The icebreaker MS Eisvogel in Freudenau harbor
The port's container terminal
New winter harbor bridge
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literature
- The water supply as well as the systems of the municipal electricity works, the Vienna river regulation, the main collecting canals, the light rail and the regulation of the Danube Canal in Vienna / on behalf of the mayor Karl Lueger edit. from the city building authority . Gerin / self-published by the Vienna City Council, Vienna 1901. - Full text online .
- Danube Regulation Commission in Vienna (ed.): The Freudenauer Hafen in Vienna. Memorandum for the opening of the Freudenau Harbor on October 28, 1902 . Imperial-Royal Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1902. - Full text (without plan representation) online (PDF; 130 KB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wiener Hafen in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Port of Vienna: Service built on the water ; viewed on June 13, 2018
- ↑ a b Port of Vienna: Port of Freudenau ; viewed on June 13, 2018
- ↑ Martin Schmid: City on the river: Vienna ports as socionatural scenes from the early modern era to after the Second World War . Vienna 2013, p. 18. From: Lukas Morscher (Hrsg.) Et al .: Places of the City in Change from the Middle Ages to the Present. Meeting places, traffic and care . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 2013, ISBN 9783706553049 .
- ↑ General city plan 1904
- ↑ Press release of the ÖBB-Holding from September 1st. 2008 ( online )
- ^ Port of Vienna: Opening: Third crane bridge WienCont container terminal in the port of Vienna ; viewed on June 13, 2018
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 41.2 ″ N , 16 ° 28 ′ 5.6 ″ E