Ports of Kitzingen
| Ports of Kitzingen | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE KIT | ||
| owner | Free State of Bavaria | ||
| operator | several | ||
| Port type | Port and lands | ||
| Throughput | 140,000 tons (2015) | ||
| website | LZR website | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Kitzingen | ||
| country | Bavaria | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 43 '24 " N , 10 ° 9' 35" E | ||
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The ports of Kitzingen include three landing points on the Main , a lock port , a protective port and a sports boat port in the large district town of Kitzingen in the district of Kitzingen ( Bavaria ).
geography
The ports of Kitzingen are located at seven spatially separate locations along the Main Federal Waterway to the east and south of the historic town center of Kitzingen. They are mostly at an altitude of 182 m above sea level. NN , only the protective harbor is already below the Kitzingen barrage at an altitude of 178 m above sea level. NN .
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
| Location: waters - km |
Port: | description | Quay length | Furnishing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 283.6 R | Port ⊙ | Protective harbor | 2 × 185 m, sloping | Berths for commercial shipping , dolphin warehouse, free storage space |
| 284.6 L. | Land ⊙ | Lock port | 2 × 400 m, sponged | Waiting places for commercial shipping |
| 284.7 r | Land ⊙ | New Mainland | 150 m, sloped + 250 m quay wall |
Crane bridge , 66 m beam, mobile excavator, conveyor belts, hall and outdoor storage areas |
| 285.4 L. | Land ⊙ | Knauf Land | 185 m, sloping | Crane bridge 45 m, outdoor storage area, heavy-duty slab |
| 285.6 L. | Marina ⊙ | Marina | Landing stages | 30 berths for small vehicles up to 12 m in length, 1.6 m draft, electricity, water, sanitation, camping, barbecue area, clubhouse |
| 286.4 R | Land ⊙ | lower Mainkai (old crane) | 135 m, quay wall | Passenger shipping |
| 287 R | Land ⊙ | Rowing club | 13 m, bridge | Floating jetty and small landing bay for muscle vehicles, boathouse |
history
The Main was already used as a waterway in Celtic times. There was graining and plowing , rafting , fishing, rowing and sailing. Attempts by the Romans to advance across the Maingraben to the east as far as the Elbe were repulsed by the Germanic Cimbri at the turn of the century . The Main continued to be an important trade route. In Carolingian times, there were first attempts to connect the waterway of the Main with the Danube region ( Fossa Carolina ), of which only contradicting records and a few findings on remains at Graben are available.
In the Middle Ages, large quantities of wood were rafted , for example to Frankfurt, the Ruhr area, but also for shipbuilding in Holland. In the 16th century, the port in Kitzingen was an important transshipment point for trade with Ansbach and Nuremberg.
The Bavarian original cadastre from 1808 already recorded two separate ports in Kitzingen. The transshipment point ( old Krahner ) was located at the point that is now used by passenger shipping as a landing stage, on the lower Main Quay . Directly opposite in what is now the Etwashausen district, a flow-free oxbow lake of the Main, into which the Bimbach originally flowed, served as a winter hall . This was used as a protective harbor, for example during storms, floods or ice . The Wintershall is now filled in and built over with green areas.
Since 1830, Kitzingen has been accessible from the west by steamship and the transport volume increased to up to 50 tons per watercraft. The Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal was completed between 1836 and 1846 , and the fact that it was continuously navigable, including to the Danube region, meant that transport volumes increased rapidly. Rail traffic became serious competition for shipping around 1880. In 1900 the Main Chain reached Kitzingen and the transport volumes could be increased again through the introduction of chain shipping on the Main , in particular through steel and coal deliveries from the Ruhr area. In both the First and Second World War , shipping remained important for Kitzingen as an industrial location and also as a transshipment point for war goods, for example to the Kitzingen air base.
While Kitzingen was badly destroyed by Allied bombers during Operation Clarion in 1945 , the port facilities remained largely intact and were occupied by the US Army in April. In 1953 the site was returned to the Federal Republic of Germany and the port facilities in Kitzingen were partially redesigned. In 1955, the Main was expanded into a large shipping route with the Kitzingen barrage. At the beginning of the 1960s, new storage buildings were built at the port and the transport volumes continued to rise as the construction of the Main-Danube Canal progressed, which went into operation as far as Nuremberg in 1972 .
Mainly coal, building materials such as sand and gravel, agricultural and forestry products and fertilizers were handled.
Until 1977 the port was operated by the city of Kitzingen. Since then, Lenz-ZieglerReifenscheid GmbH has been the main operator.
Commerce and infrastructure
To the west, the port facilities are now supplemented by a 40 hectare industrial area with important infrastructure. A railway line leads past the freight ports immediately to the north, but does not provide access to the quays . On the Knauf-Lände, however, a possible routing is kept free of construction so that a rail connection can be implemented with little effort if necessary.
Today mainly building materials are handled, but also agricultural and forestry products, animal feed, fertilizers and scrap .
Once a year the Kitzinger Hafen becomes a party mile when the Bayern 3 party ship MS Catwalk docks there.
Passenger shipping, especially river cruises, is becoming increasingly important. In Main Franconia, high five-digit passenger numbers are counted every year.
traffic
The transshipment countries are accessible via the state roads 2270 and 2271 to the federal road 8 . The Knauf-Lände is equipped with a cross-free driveway to the B 8 and the access routes are dimensioned for a load capacity of up to 70 tons.
In all parts of the port there are public transport boarding options a few hundred meters away.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Umschlagsätze, Hafen Kitzingen 2003, p. 114 ff. (.Pdf) ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Renovation of the upper sluice port
- ^ Marina Kitzingen
- ^ SSC Kitzingen
- ↑ Terms of use of the pier passenger shipping (.pdf)
- ^ Chronicle of the rowing club
- ^ Reichskreis 2 pp. 34/35
- ↑ Kitzingen landing stages on historical map,
- ↑ Storage building 1961
