Rummelsburg harbor
The port of Rummelsburg is a port basin that was newly created between 2010 and 2012 in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick , Oberschöneweide . It was built on the open-air site next to the Rummelsburg power plant , which was closed in 1966 and from which the name of the port is derived. The port has a water surface of 11,000 m² and has an access from the Spree with a width of 12 meters. The port was built exclusively for the use of passenger ships.
location
According to water law , the port basin is located on the Spree-Oder waterway at km 25.2 - right bank - in Berlin. It is on the Spree side in the immediate vicinity of the Bullenbruch Island. At the approx. 200 meter long bank edge there is a 65 meter long emergency berth for passenger ships next to the entrance to the harbor basin. The rest of the bank at Bullenbruch Island has been renatured as the original river bank. The land area around the port is delimited to the north by the area of the former Rummelsburg power station, to the south by the area of the former GDR radio ( Funkhaus Nalepastraße ) and on the eastern side there is the access via Nalepastraße , between house numbers 10 and 16.
Location history
The property at Nalepastraße 10-16 has been used by companies that have been storing and processing mineral oil since the end of the 19th century . At the turn of the century, these included the German-Russian Naphtha Import Company , the OLEX Deutsche Petroleum-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft and, after 1940, the German Gasoline Petroleum GmbH. After 1945 the area became the property of VEB Minol , which operated a gas station for ships on the Spree.
In 1967, after the Rummelsburg power plant was shut down, the old high-level tanks of the OLEX were partially demolished. A data center was built in this area in 1970/71 . In 1981 the area was taken over by the State Committee for Broadcasting of the GDR . In this context, demolition measures were carried out in 1983, combined with some new buildings. The remaining high tanks and boiler systems were dismantled. The GDR State Broadcasting Company used the systems until the turn of 1990.
The decades-long use of the site as a transshipment point for mineral oils and fuels led to the introduction of typical water-polluting pollutants into the soil and groundwater . Investigations carried out accordingly since 1991 have shown considerable pollution, which caused the pollutants to spread in the direction of the drinking water collection systems of the Wuhlheide waterworks due to rain and flowing groundwater .
After several changes of ownership and various interim uses , the Riedel shipping company bought the site at the end of 2009, after having already started exploring the damage to the soil and planning the redevelopment and development of the site in mid-2007. At the beginning of 2010, the demolition work began on other old building complexes and the extensive floor renovation, which was finally completed successfully at the end of 2011. The Senate Department for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection ( Senate of Berlin ) recommended the work for the German Environment Prize due to the renovation . The present port basin was created from parts of the redevelopment areas .
Aerial photograph June 4, 2009
Construction work June 24, 2010
Construction of the port August 25, 2010
Construction port May 11, 2011
Construction port May 18, 2011
Construction of the port June 1st, 2011
Construction port September 16, 2011
Construction port September 28, 2011
Construction port November 30, 2011
Construction port January 4th 2012
use
The port of Rummelsburg has served as the home port for the passenger ship fleet of Reederei Riedel GmbH since 2012. The total area of 41,500 m², in which the harbor basin was dug, has several useful buildings. The building planned in 1988 to provide power was converted into an administration building for the shipping company. Another workshop, originally used as a district heating transfer station for the radio area, is now used by the shipping company as a carpentry and metal construction workshop. Apartments for employees of the shipping company are to be built in two old tenement houses built in 1905. The remaining open spaces will be developed for leisure and events. The 200-meter-long shoreline is to become part of the riverside hiking trail from Rummelsburger Bucht to Berlin-Köpenick over the next few years .
literature
- Hannes Wanderer: The red castle - the radio site on Nalepastraße , Peperoni Books publishing house (2007), ISBN 3-9809677-3-5
Sources and web links
- Website of the shipping company Riedel GmbH
- Funkhaus Berlin
- Hannes Wanderer: THE RED CASTLE - The broadcasting area on Nalepastraße
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rummelsburg power station industrial monument at group.vattenfall.com
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 47.7 " N , 13 ° 29 ′ 53.6" E