Ports market wide

Ports market wide
Data
UN / LOCODE	DE MKT
owner	Free State of Bavaria
operator	several
Port type	Ports and Lands
Passengers	unknown
Throughput	100,000 t (2015)
Geographic information
place	Market wide
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
	Left: Alter Kranen, pier for passenger shipping, middle: Marktbreit harbor, right: Marktbreit barrage view from the northeast, (2016)
Coordinates	49 ° 40 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 41 ″ E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 41 ″ E
	Location Harbors Marktbreit

The ports of Marktbreit include two landings on the Main , a protective port and a sport boat port in the town of Marktbreit in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen ( Bavaria ).

geography

The Marktbreit ports are located at four spatially separate locations along the Main federal waterway north of the historic town center of Marktbreit at an altitude of 179 m above sea level. NN .

f1 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

Location: waters - km	Port:	description	Quay length	Furnishing
276.4 L	Land ⊙49.668657 10.140226	Knauf transfer point	150 m, rounded + 850 m sloping	Waiting places commercial vessels with pontoons , excavators, conveyors for bulk materials, silos, free bearing surface
277.1 L	Land ⊙49.669175 10.14396	Age cranes	150 m, sloping	40 m quay wall , landing stage , width 8 m for passenger shipping , public slip area for small vehicles
277.3 L.	Marina ⊙49.670069 10.14685	Marina	Landing stages	25 berths, harbor basin 15 × 40 m, 150 m sloping, floating jetties, electricity, water, sanitary facilities, clubhouse, near gas station
277.6 L.	Land ⊙49.672991 10.149337	Canoe docks	sloped	Pier and insertion point for muscle vehicles, toilet, garbage disposal, bathing bay, barbecue, tent and mobile home parking space
279.0 L	Port ⊙49.683997 10.143969	Wüffert transshipment point (protective port)	25 + 45 m, rounded + 350 m sloping	Cranes, berths, jetties, handling equipment for bulk goods , excavators, conveyor belts, warehouses, silos, outdoor storage areas

history

Main shipping in Marktbreit (1847)

Old cranes, pier for passenger shipping, view from the east (2013)

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 . Although they still reached Marktbreit and set up the Roman camp Marktbreit , they could not consolidate themselves in the area and had to retreat to the west behind the Limes, 60 km away, during the Pannonian uprising . The viticulture they brought with them remained and the vineyards are still a tourist magnet for the area today. 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 area ( Fossa Carolina ), of which only contradicting records and a few findings of 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. Old prints from the 16th century show the shipping industry at Marktbreit.

The Bavarian original cadastre recorded in 1825 in Marktbreit east of the mouth of the Breitbach the already fortified port, the old cranes , the warehouse, a ship's house and two ferry connections to the northern bank of the Main.

In the 1830s, Marktbreit was opened up from the west by steam shipping and the transport volume rose to up to 50 tons per vessel. 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. When the Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railway was built in 1864 , rail traffic became serious competition for shipping in the 1880s. In 1899 the main chain reached Marktbreit and the transport volumes could be increased again through the introduction of chain shipping, in particular through steel and coal deliveries from the Ruhr area.

In both the First and Second World War , shipping remained an important economic factor for Marktbreit, although local trade declined. Standard-gauge rail connections with the Mainland railway led directly to the pier so that trimodal ship-rail-road traffic was possible there. However, industry settled down and the transport volumes rose again as the construction of the Main-Danube Canal progressed, which went into operation in 1972, initially to Nuremberg and in 1992. Mainly coal, building materials such as sand and gravel, agricultural and forestry products and fertilizers were handled.

Commerce and infrastructure

The handling operation at the old crane was given up. The facilities there are used today as a marina for recreational shipping and for passenger shipping, which is becoming increasingly important . Especially on river cruises , high five-digit passenger numbers are counted annually in Main Franconia .

The companies Knauf and Wüffert operate their own transshipment points on site, mainly for their building materials. To the west, the port facilities are now complemented by an industrial area with important infrastructure. An industrial track runs 100 m south of the Knauf transshipment point, but no longer provides access to the quay facilities . There is a road connection between them, but regular transhipment between rail and ship has not yet taken place there. At the Knauf transshipment point, two to three motorized goods ships with a length of 110–130 m or two push convoys with a length of 185 m can be handled simultaneously, as well as three to four other ships. Only one ship up to 150 m in length can land at the Alter Kranen and, if necessary, another can wait for the roadstead near the opposite bank . The Wüffert transshipment point is only navigable for significantly smaller ships or barges with a shallower draft . For just under a dozen of these, however, this is also suitable as a protective harbor , since there, well separated from the fairway, ice drifts are not to be expected.

Today mainly building materials and gravel , around 17% sugar , and occasionally agricultural and forestry products, fodder and fertilizers are handled.

Once a year, Marktbreit harbor becomes a party mile when the Bayern 3 party ship MS Catwalk docks there.

traffic

Municipal roads open up all parts of the port to the western federal motorway 7 , to which there is a connection at AS Marktbreit. There is a possibility of getting on public transport in reasonable proximity at the Marktbreit train station. As a scheduled ship, the MS Neptun lies and operates at the Marktbreit harbor .