Godorf Harbor

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Godorf Harbor
Data
UN / LOCODE DE CGN
owner city ​​Cologne
operator Ports and Freight Transport Cologne AG
opening 1901
Port type Inland port
Throughput 4.95 million t (2011)
website hgk.de
Geographic information
place Cologne-Godorf
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Port of Cologne-Godorf
Port of Cologne-Godorf
Coordinates 50 ° 50 '53 "  N , 6 ° 58' 58"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '53 "  N , 6 ° 58' 58"  E
Godorf Harbor (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Godorf Harbor
Location Godorf Harbor

The Godorfer harbor (until 1960 Wesselinger port ) is the busiest Cologne harbor . It is located in Cologne-Godorf am Niederrhein at km 671.9 on the left.

history

In 1901 the Querbahn (HGK) opened on behalf of the Cöln-Bonner Kreisbahn . This 7 kilometer long freight route Brühl - Vochem - Berzdorf - Wesseling - Godorf led to the construction of the Godorf harbor which went into operation in 1901. In 1928 the first port basin went into operation. The Wesselinger Hafen was renamed in 1960. Back then, both Wesseling and Godorf were in the Cologne district . The renaming indicated the realignment to the Rhineland refinery of the Royal Dutch Shell in Godorf. The expansion project at that time was postponed after Godorf was incorporated into Cologne. In 1960/61 the oil port (port basin II) and the gas port (port basin III) were opened. In 1992, the Cologne-Bonn Railway (KBE) became the operator of Godorf Harbor in the Stadtwerke Köln group . The Godorf port became part of the ports and goods traffic Cologne AG. In 2006 goods traffic on the Rheinuferbahn was discontinued.

In the 1990s, the expansion discussion came up again. In addition to economic arguments, proponents cite the transport benefits as the main reason. They expect the expansion of Godorf Harbor to significantly reduce traffic congestion in other parts of Cologne. Critics of the expansion and above all the local residents fear the loss of a local recreational area in the south of Cologne and the Sürther Aue nature reserve .

Among other things, it supplies the region's chemical industry with mineral oil. The planned expansion to include a fourth port basin was politically controversial; In September 2019, the Cologne City Council finally stopped the expansion plans.

Infrastructure

The Godorf Harbor currently has three harbor basins with a water surface of 192,900 square meters and a land area of ​​170,200 square meters. In 2011, around 966,000 tons of bulk goods - mainly gravel, salt and moisture hydrate - as well as almost 5 million tons of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons were handled there.

In the three port basins , bulk and liquid goods are mainly handled. Pipelines lead from the berths for the handling of liquid goods directly to the plants of the surrounding companies Shell and Basell .

Bulk goods (including gravel , clay, limestone, gypsum and limestone) are handled directly on the river with a total of 2 gantry luffing cranes . A funnel is located between the two gantry luffing cranes, this helps with the loading of railway wagons and spans the tracks between the storage boxes and the river. The hopper can be attached to both crane systems.

traffic

At the port there is a train station of the ports and goods traffic Cologne AG . Pull-out tracks in the southern and northern port basins lead directly to the quays . The landing stages in the central port area are not accessible for ship / rail handling. The port is located near the Cologne motorway ring at the Godorf exit of the federal motorway 555 . The public transport serving the Godorfer harbor with the light rail -Station Godorfer station. The port of Godorf is not suitable for passenger shipping and leisure shipping.

  • Compressed air lock at the port entrance

  • Liquid goods extinguishing system

  • Godorf harbor, entrance

  • Ship-rail transshipment in the Godorf harbor

  • the oil port in Godorf harbor

Controversy over the expansion of the port

Advocates of expansion

Twelve hot-air balloons show the amount of CO 2 saved by expanding the Godorf harbor.

The Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln (HGK) has been striving to expand a fourth port basin since the early 1990s. In September 2006, the Cologne district government approved the planning approval for the port expansion. At that time, the HGK's supervisory board chairman was Johannes Eckard Waschek. The SPD politician Michael Zimmermann has chaired the HGK's supervisory board since January 2010.

With the expansion, the HGK wants to respond to the traffic volume that has been increasing for years. Transport scientists predict that truck traffic in the region will double by the year 2025. Particularly in container traffic, there are high growth rates, for which capacities would have to be expanded. Cologne has a disadvantage here, as the city only has one suitable terminal. By eliminating the need to transport containers from industrial companies in the south of Cologne to Niehler Hafen in the north of Cologne, tens of thousands of truck trips across Cologne's urban area could be saved each year. The capacities for containers and combined transport are already being adjusted in numerous sea and inland ports . In Cologne, too, this has already happened in the port of Cologne-Niehl. A strengthening of the Godorf harbor is also important with regard to the local industry, which is calling for this expansion. That is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the German Federation of Trade Unions support the expansion. A traffic science report confirms a high demand for space for container handling in the south of Cologne.

A report by the Transport Science Institute of the University of Cologne commissioned by the City of Cologne also proves this positive effect for Cologne as a location. Further supporters are above all the Cologne SPD and the Cologne CDU.

Proponents of expansion continue to argue that a good infrastructure is an important location factor for an industrial location like Cologne. He creates jobs and maintains competitiveness. Given the enormous growth, there is no question that more container handling capacities would be required.

On July 5, 2011, the HGK let 12 hot air balloons soar into the Cologne sky. The port company wanted to show the volume of CO 2 saved every day by expanding the Godorf harbor. The HGK states that 47 million lorry kilometers could be shifted to inland waterway vessels per year and refers to the one report which it has carried out on its behalf. a. by the Institute for Transport Science at the University of Cologne . According to the HGK, truck traffic could be reduced with the expansion of the Godorf harbor and around 52,700 cubic meters of CO 2 - as much as the filling volume of 12 hot air balloons - could be saved.

Opponents of expansion

Critical observers as well as local residents deny the necessity of the expansion. They ask to handle the transshipment in the port of Cologne-Niehl I, around 20 kilometers away. An expert opinion prepared by opponents of expansion calls into question the economic viability. Furthermore, the loss of the floodplain for the inner city and the risks from the storage of dangerous goods are feared.

Nature conservation associations also argue that the destruction of the Sürther Aue nature reserve by the port expansion is disproportionate, and that the replacement areas in northern Cologne promised by the HGK to meet legal requirements are due to their spatial distance and the different location factors and biotope types , despite having already taken place Investments by the HGK of several million euros for environmental compensation are not sufficient to compensate for the loss. In order to create a suitable replacement habitat for the threatened species, it would be necessary to provide an equally large nature reserve in Sürth with a development time of around 15 years in advance. The HGK again rejects such a lead as disproportionate.

Council resolution and referendum

In August 2007, the Cologne City Council decided with an absolute majority of votes (CDU and SPD, against FDP, DIE LINKE and Greens) to expand the Godorf harbor. The opponents of expansion initiated a referendum against the council decision. It was closed on November 30, 2007 with 37,808 voting slips handed over to the city. This was declared inadmissible by the Cologne City Council with legal arguments. The Cologne Administrative Court confirmed this view of the council.

Vigil in the Sürther Aue

A vigil has been taking place in the Sürther Aue since Sunday, January 25, 2009, 3 p.m. The Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) Cologne together with the Action Group Contra Extension Godorfer Hafen, the NABIS e. V., Bündnis90 / Die Grünen and the Kölner Baumschützer citizens' initiative set up the vigil to prevent the clearing and deforestation of the Sürther Aue by the Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG (HGK). A first attempt at clearing on Thursday, January 29, 2009 was prevented by local residents by moving an excavator.

Judicial review and construction freeze

With three decisions dated August 11, 2009, which were announced on September 2, 2009, the Cologne Administrative Court overturned the regional government's planning approval decision for formal reasons and restored the suspensive effect of the lawsuits against the planning approval decision, which in fact meant a construction freeze. The construction site has been idle since then. Against the decision on the suspensory effect, the district government submitted complaint and against the zoning decision annulling judgments appeals a. On July 29, 2010, the higher administrative court in Münster initially confirmed the formal concerns against the planning approval decision of the district government in provisional legal protection and thus confirmed the construction freeze. The HGK announced that it would apply for a new approval procedure. With two rulings of March 15, 2011, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster also rejected the main appeals after the district government had withdrawn its appeals and only the developer had continued his appeals. The administrative court and the higher administrative court based their decisions unanimously on the opinion that no uniform planning approval procedure should have been carried out by the district government for the entire project, but that individual procedures should have been carried out on various project components for which the district government was not exclusively responsible. The decisions, however, hardly deal with the port project itself.

Survey of residents by the city of Cologne

After the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia finally rejected the granted planning approval decision, the City of Cologne carried out a residents' survey on July 10, 2011. All residents aged 16 and over were entitled to vote. The City Council of Cologne had set a quorum of 10%: at least 87,901 votes had to be given to one of the possible answers (“Yes” or “No”) for the Council to follow the results of the residents' survey in the form of a voluntary commitment. Since the quorum, with 57,307 yes and 72,787 no votes, was not achieved, the legal status from before the survey continues.

  • Information event on the expansion of the Godorf harbor

  • Ballot for the residents' survey

  • Information event on June 28, 2011 in Gürzenich on the referendum

Suspension of planning

In September 2019, the Cologne City Council finally stopped the expansion plans.

See also

Web links

Commons : Godorfer Hafen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  29. ↑ Vigil in Sürther Aue
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  33. ↑ a b http://www.express.de/klagen-stattgend-gericht-stoppt-ausbau-des-godorfer-hafens-22054102
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  36. ↑ http://www.hgk.de/pdf/presse/20110316.pdf
  37. ^ OVG Münster, judgment of March 15, 2011 - 20 A 2147/09 -, quoted from juris
  38. ↑ OVG Münster, judgment of March 15, 2011 - 20 A 2148/09 -, DVBl 2011, p. 767 ff.
  39. ↑ Should the Godorf harbor be expanded further? Official final result of the residents' survey of July 10, 2011. City of Cologne, archived from the original on September 15, 2011 ; accessed on March 14, 2015 .