Braunschweig harbor
| Braunschweig harbor | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE BWE | ||
| owner | City of Braunschweig | ||
| operator | Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft Braunschweig mbH u. A. | ||
| start of building | 1930 | ||
| opening | May 13, 1934 | ||
| Port type | Ports and Lands | ||
| Throughput | 830,000 t (2014) | ||
| website | www.braunschweig-hafen.de | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Braunschweig | ||
| country | Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 18 '53 " N , 10 ° 28' 53" E | ||
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The port of Braunschweig is an inland port opened in 1934 in the north of the city of Braunschweig , Lower Saxony . It includes two docks , a plurality of channel venues with and a marina .
geography
The ports of Braunschweig are located at three spatially separate locations on the federal waterway Mittellandkanal at an altitude of 65 m above sea level. NN , the apex posture of the canal. 1.3 km west of the city harbor, the Oker crosses under the Mittelland Canal in an 80 m long culvert , to which there is a flood relief . The Schunter passes under the canal 400 m west of the oil port .
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
| Location: waters - km |
Port: | description | Quay length | Furnishing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MLK 217.5 north | Marina ⊙ | Marina Watenbüttel | 210 m, quay wall | 39 berths in water , dry berths, jetties, 1.6 t crane, barrier gate, water, electricity, sanitary, catering |
| MLK 219.0 - MLK 220.3 |
Land + port ⊙ |
Braunschweig city harbor |
3,000 m, sponged | 2 container cranes, 4 gantry cranes , mobile cranes, conveyors for bulk materials , goods handling , rail connection (South piers ) weighbridge mooring for the commercial shipping to the North piers, several indoor and outdoor storage areas |
| MLK 222.4 north | Land ⊙ | RV investor | 100 m, sloping | Special jetty for muscle vehicles, 15 m Niederkai, footbridges, stairs, boathouse, dry berths, public transport connection |
| MLK 223.0 north | Land ⊙ | WSA and Thune oil port |
550 m, sponged | Pumps, pipelines , bollards and tank farms at the oil port, as well as the operating port of the WSA Braunschweig , turning bay for large motor freight ships up to 150 m in length, further berths on the south bank |
history
The old Hanseatic city of Braunschweig had already had a stacking and transshipment point on the Oker around 1000 and from 1227 regular shipping between Braunschweig and Bremen was documented, which had to be abandoned again in 1764 due to increasing siltation of the rivers.
It was not until the construction of the Mittelland Canal, which began in 1906, that the prospect of a link to sea trade was again revealed. In 1926 the city council decided to build a port. Since the Mittelland Canal did not run through the urban area of Braunschweig, the city was to be connected by a side canal and a port should be created at Ölper . With the incorporation of Veltenhof , the city was able to build a harbor basin directly on the Mittelland Canal from 1930 and dispense with the cost-intensive side canal. The port was opened on May 13, 1934 and was then the eastern end port of the canal for four years.
In the time of National Socialism, other industries quickly settled in Braunschweig, which the port served. In 1938 the canal was pierced towards the Elbe and the volumes handled increased. In the period that followed, the port benefited from the war armament and the opening of the Salzgitter branch canal due to increasing transport volumes. There was a pipeline from the oil port in Thune to Waggum airport .
During the Second World War , the further construction of the Mittelland Canal came to a standstill in 1942, but the cargo handling remained at a high level due to a large number of war industries located in Braunschweig . As a result, Braunschweig and the port infrastructure were repeatedly targeted by Allied bombers. While Braunschweig was 90% destroyed in February 1945, the then remote port remained almost undamaged. Bunkers built in the port area during the war are still preserved today and are a reminder of this time. In April 1945 the US Army occupied the facilities and handed them over to the British occupation forces in June 1945 . Operations in the port, which was then the responsibility of Rhenus Transport GmbH, continued seamlessly, as photos of the port from 1946 show.
From the 1950s on, passenger shipping also began to move; Until the end of the 1980s, passenger ships ran to other ports according to schedule.
From 1964, the Mittelland Canal was expanded for large motor cargo ships . In 1970 the Braunschweiger Motorboot Club and its own crane system moved from the Sophiental area to Watenbüttel and built the marina there.
This became one of the Braunschweig ports, as did the oil port in Thune , but only with the incorporation of these districts in 1974.
As a result of the growing ship sizes, two parallel ports were expanded in the 1970s. Until 1989, the focus of activities was on transshipment between East and West tonnage and the adjustment of the loading of ships in Berlin transit to the water levels in the Elbe .
When this handling work ceased after the border was opened in 1989, the freight forwarders and storage companies migrated and the port operating company also took over logistics services in addition to pure port operations. In 2001, a parallel port was enlarged again and a container terminal with 33,000 m² of paved area was added.
In 2015, Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft Braunschweig mbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the city of Braunschweig, handled over 850,000 tonnes of bulk goods (2011: 779,000) and around 62,500 standard containers (2010: 56,800). In 2000, the volume of bulk cargo was less than 580,000 tons and the number of standard containers handled was 7,700. The goods handled in Braunschweig mainly include clothing, grain, furniture, cars and spirits. In addition, the region's supply of heating oil and diesel fuel is important, and the transport of scrap to the neighboring steelworks is relevant.
Commerce and infrastructure
operator
The Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft Braunschweig mbH operates the city harbor and is the sole property of Stadtwerke Braunschweig GmbH. The marina and the WSA / oil port each have their own operators.
envelope
The port is the largest container port in inland northern Germany. In 2014, goods handled around 830,000 tons, mainly grain, mineral oil, fuels, building materials and recycling products. At the container terminal , which was built in 2001 and connects Braunschweig with the seaports of Bremerhaven and Hamburg , 60,278 TEU were handled in 2014 .
Port railway
A port railway opens up the port, two neighboring industrial areas and is connected to the European rail network under the name Braunschweig Hafen . The transition to the public rail network takes place via the tariff station: Braunschweig-Hafen.
traffic
Street
The city port of Braunschweig is connected to the federal motorway 2 in the Veltenhof district via local roads. The driveways are partly free of crossings and capable of heavy loads. The WSA / oil port is connected to Bundesstraße 4 . The marina can be reached via a junction from the federal highway 214 .
rail
The port railway serves the southern jetties of the city port in two and three trains right up to the piers , so that trimodal traffic is possible there. There are no rail connections on the outskirts on the north bank, at the WSA / oil port or at the marina.
Transportation
At the city harbor there are several boarding options for public transport 200–300 m away. At the WSA / Ölhafen the distance to the next stop is over 500 m, at the yacht harbor around 1,000 m.
Former bunker, now used as a café (2013)
Former "one-man bunkers" at the scrap loading quay, in the background the container bridge (2013)
Scrap loading quay, gantry crane, behind warehouse (2013)
Thune Oil Harbor (2012)
literature
- Helmut Weihsmann : Building under the swastika. Architecture of doom. Promedia Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , p. 323.
Web links
- Homepage of the Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft Braunschweig mbH
- binnenschifferforum.de Pictures from the port of Braunschweig
- braunschweig-zukunft.de ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Photo of the WSA and oil port (1989)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c cover numbers ( memento of the original from September 21, 2017 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. on the website of the port operating company (accessed on April 7, 2016)
- ↑ Braunschweig marina
- ^ Pipeline Ölhafen - Waggum
- ↑ History of the Port of Braunschweig ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2017 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.
- ^ Port of Braunschweig, photo from 1946
- ↑ History ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2017 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. on the website of the port operating company (accessed on April 7, 2016)
- ^ Association chronicle Motorboot Club
- ↑ Sina Rühland: Track systems in the port require high investments . In: regionalbraunschweig.de (accessed on April 7, 2016)
- ↑ New tracks for the port. (No longer available online.) In: www.braunschweig.de. Archived from the original on August 24, 2016 ; Retrieved August 25, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Port wants to cooperate with Hamburg . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung (paid subscription access)
