Wolfsburg ports
| Wolfsburg ports | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE FAB, DE WOB | ||
| operator | Container Terminal Fallersleben Betriebsgesellschaft mbH ULG Umschlags- und Lagerhausgesellschaft mbH and others |
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| start of building | 1934 | ||
| opening | from 1938 | ||
| Port type | Ports and Lands | ||
| Throughput | 148,000 t (2014) | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Wolfsburg | ||
| country | Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 25 '50 " N , 10 ° 47' 22" E | ||
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The ports of Wolfsburg consist of an inland port , two sluice ports as well as several states and several yacht harbors .
geography
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
The ports are located at a number of spatially separated locations to the west, central and east of the city center of Wolfsburg . Most of them are located on the federal waterway Mittellandkanal (MLK) at an altitude of 56 m above sea level. NN . As a curiosity, the "lower" Schleusenvorhafen is at a height of 65 m, ie higher than the "upper", but at a lower kilometer of the MLK.
Several other harbors, which are primarily used for sports and recreational shipping, are located on Allersee (AS) at an altitude of 55.5 m above sea level. NN , to which, however, there is no direct navigable connection.
| Location: waters - km |
Height above NN |
Port: | description | Quay length | Furnishing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MLK 236.2 | 65 m | Lands ⊙ | lower lock port | 2 × 700 m, sponged | two sun transhipment sites for commercial vessels , electricity, water, bunker points , berth for small vehicles with station |
| MLK 237.6 | 56 m | Lands ⊙ | upper lock port | 750 m, rounded + 550 m sloped |
Berths for motor ships , electricity, water, bunkering, berths for small vehicles with intercom, if necessary, rail craning is possible on the open route (only for emergency transhipment ship / rail in the event of operational disruptions in the canal) |
| MLK 239 South | 56 m | Land ⊙ | Container terminal | 250 m, quay wall | 2 reach stackers , car and truck parking spaces, public transport |
| MLK 240.7 north | 56 m | Bay ⊙ | Turning bay | 650 m, sloping | Berths, bunkers, turning bay for ships up to 110 m in length, bollards , stairs |
| MLK 240.9 south | 56 m | Land ⊙ | Raiffeisenland | 240 m, sponged | three gantry cranes , handling facilities for bulk goods , silos, hall storage, two-way rail connection to the pier , public transport |
| MLK 245.6 south | 56 m | Land ⊙ | Stadtlände (Hbh.) | 650 m, sponged | Berths, electricity, water, public transport |
| MLK 245.8 north | 56 m | Port ⊙ | City harbor | 370 m, sponged | Pier West: pumps, tank farm, rail connection directly to the pier, Pier East: jetty system for solar and pedal boats, public transport |
| MLK 246.1 north | 56 m | Land ⊙ | Passenger shipping | 60 m, quay wall | Pier for passenger shipping |
| MLK 247 North | 56 m | Marina ⊙ | Wolfsburg marina | 100 m × 30 m | Pier, slipway, 45 water and 20 berths on land, electricity, water, sanitary facilities, WiFi, catering |
| MLK 247.6 north | 56 m | Land ⊙ | Transfer point | 10 m, Niederkai | Transfer point for muscle vehicles |
| MLK 249.4 south | 56 m | Land ⊙ | WSA port | 120 m, quay wall | Outside area of the Uelzen Waterways and Shipping Office, ASt. Vorsfelde |
| Allersee (AS) | |||||
| AS Southwest | 55.5 m | Bars ⊙ | Rowing club | Pier, boathouse, clubhouse with catering | |
| AS South | 55.5 m | Bridge ⊙ | Canoe club | Boat and club house, sanitary facilities, jetty, land berths | |
| AS South | 55.5 m | Bars ⊙ | Sailing club | Pier, boathouse, clubhouse, water and land berths | |
| AS Southeast | 55.5 m | Bars ⊙ | YC Hoffmannstadt | Pier, boathouse, clubhouse, water and land berths |
history
Between 1934 and 1938 the Mittelland Canal was built near Wolfsburg, which was laid out according to plan during the Nazi era and was then called the City of the KdF-Wagons near Fallersleben . From 1939 onwards, large quantities of hard coal were delivered to the city harbor to fire the thermal power station there . During the Second World War , the automobile plant was built and the city harbor also served as the loading point for the plant, which at that time mainly produced armaments. In April 1945 the facilities were largely destroyed after Allied bombings and in May 1945 the place was renamed Wolfsburg. After the reconstruction, the port also benefited from the growth of the city and the local industry during the period of the economic miracle . After expansion and upgrading work on the canal in the 1960s, the Fallersleben agricultural land and the lock ports were added to the ports of Wolfsburg in 1972 through incorporation. At about the same time, the sports clubs and their landing sites for recreational shipping moved from the Mittelland Canal to the newly created Allersee . Vorsfelde was also incorporated into Wolfsburg in 1972. During expansion work in the 1980s, an operating harbor was created there as the outskirts of the Uelzen Waterways and Shipping Office . In 2012, construction began on the container terminal in Fallersleben, which opened in August 2014.
Commerce and infrastructure
The individual port facilities in Wolfsburg are equipped differently, depending on the respective requirements. The oldest part, the harbor basin of the city harbor, served from the beginning mainly to handle fuels, raw materials and semi-finished products. The works railway runs there on a single track directly to the western pier. On the aerial photo from 1989 (see web links) you can still see the huge coal heaps. Today the east pier has conquered the gastronomy for itself. The eastern handling and storage areas have given way to a hotel complex and restaurants. Pedal and solar boat rentals are operated on the Niederkai jetties that have also been brought in. At the city bridge, the excursion and passenger shipping has its own landing stage for sightseeing trips and river cruise ships.
The Raiffeisenlände in Fallersleben is primarily set up for the handling and storage of agricultural products, animal feed, fertilizers and building materials. Agravis Raiffeisen AG operates the facilities there . There are three portal cranes , conveyors for bulk goods , industrial trucks , warehouses, silos and outdoor storage areas. Pull-out tracks lead directly to the pier in two trains , so that two motorized goods ships and block trains can be handled there in trimodal traffic . Large amounts of scrap from automobile production and disposal were also repeatedly shipped there. At the moment (as of 2016) the scrap loading has stopped, but should be resumed as soon as the transshipment point has been upgraded and official approval. There is no regular transshipment at the WSA port, the outer area at the main train station or at the lock outer ports. These serve as berths for commercial ships as bunkering stations or loading of resources of the channel.
The container terminal in Fallersleben, which was newly opened in 2014, currently has two mobile container forklifts , around 20,000 m² of open-air storage space and spacious parking spaces. In two-shift operation, 35–50 containers are loaded there every week. There, too, two ships can be processed at the same time. A railroad track runs very close and can be approached 200 m south of the quay without crossing, but does not open up directly to the pier. In the eastern part of the port there is a public slip area for small vehicles .
The port facilities on Allersee are intended exclusively for recreational boating and local recreation .
traffic
The ports of Wolfsburg can be accessed via local roads, some of which are heavy-duty, and are partly free of intersections with the federal motorway 39 , which crosses the town in the center . From the Allersee and from the WSA-Lände in Vorsfelde , the northbound federal highway 188 is the cheaper connection.
There are rail connections in all parts of the port, with the exception of Allersee and the WSA-Lände.
Public transport connections are available in all parts of the port within walking distance, sometimes with excellent frequency. Only on the land in Vorsfelde and the upper Schleusenvorhafen is the distance to the nearest access point about 500 m.
Boat tours start at the passenger shipping area with five trips a day if the weather is suitable. They operate on behalf of the Autostadt .
Web links
literature
- Collection of facts "The Lower Saxony Ports in Profile: Figures - Data - Facts" (2013), publisher: Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport, pp. 91–97
Individual evidence
- ^ Cover Agravis Fallersleben
- ^ Wolfsburg marina
- ^ History of the WSA Uelzen
- ↑ Opening of the Fallersleben container terminal in 2014 ( Memento from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Agravis-Raiffeisen Fallersleben
- ↑ Press report on the Fallersleben container port ( Memento from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information on the journeys on the Autostadt website ( memento from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 30, 2016