Houses crane

The houses Crane (also Häusener Crane ) is a portal crane in St. Goarshausen at Rhein-Lahn-Kreis . The listed crane is located in the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley .

history

The crane, built in 1917 by Maschinenfabrik Jäger from Duisburg (later DEMAG ), can be rotated 360 degrees and has a 25 m long boom. Its load capacity is 8000 kg. It was powered by three motors. It was one of the first and largest electrically operated cranes on the Rhine.

Located at the St. Goarshausen Loreleyhafen, goods such as stones, coke, sand and grain were reloaded here between Rhine shipping and the Nassau small railway , which ran from St. Goarshausen via Nastätten and Holzhausen to Zollhaus .

When the tide was low , the crane was used to lighten the ships. The cargo was temporarily stored and the ship was able to continue its journey with a shallower draft .

In 1999 it was shut down after 82 years of operation.

meaning

The Haus Kran stands in a long tradition of cranes on the Rhine, as evidenced by the Oestricher crane , the Rhine crane in Bingen, the Alte Krahnen in Andernach or the former Koblenz Rhine crane . The crane and its equipment are still in their original condition and, as a technical monument, represent an important testimony to the connection between shipping and technological history in the cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

Individual evidence

^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. Mainz 2020, p. 78 (PDF; 6.2 MB).
^ State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The Rhine Valley from Bingen and Rüdesheim to Koblenz. A European cultural landscape . tape 1 . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-2753-6 .
↑ The harbor crane of St. Goarshausen - industrial monument of the traffic landscape. (No longer available online.) In: Mittelrheinforum.de. Förderverein Häusener Kran e. V., archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; accessed on June 4, 2020 .
↑ Heino Rönneper: An old crane in the UNESCO cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. (No longer available online.) In: Loreley-Info. Archived from the original on July 9, 2014 ; accessed on June 4, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Houses crane - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

The new time chronicle of the city of St. Goarshausen
Website of the “Häusener Kran” e. V.

50.149420146193 7.7256202697754Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 57.9 " N , 7 ° 43 ′ 32.2" E

[1] General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. Mainz 2020, p. 78 (PDF; 6.2 MB).

[2] State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The Rhine Valley from Bingen and Rüdesheim to Koblenz. A European cultural landscape . tape 1 . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-2753-6 .

[3] The harbor crane of St. Goarshausen - industrial monument of the traffic landscape. (No longer available online.) In: Mittelrheinforum.de. Förderverein Häusener Kran e. V., archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; accessed on June 4, 2020 .

[4] Heino Rönneper: An old crane in the UNESCO cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. (No longer available online.) In: Loreley-Info. Archived from the original on July 9, 2014 ; accessed on June 4, 2020 .