Sachsenhagen harbor
| Sachsenhagen harbor | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE 75E | ||
| owner | City of Sachsenhagen | ||
| operator | Rhenus AG & Co | ||
| start of building | 1913 | ||
| opening | 1916 | ||
| Port type | Lands | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Sachsenhagen | ||
| country | Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 23 '0 " N , 9 ° 16' 11" E | ||
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The port of Sachsenhagen is the inland port of the city of Sachsenhagen in the district of Schaumburg , Lower Saxony .
geography
The port of Sachsenhagen is about one and a half kilometers south of the town center at an altitude of 50.3 m above sea level. NHN on the federal waterway Mittellandkanal (MLK).
To the west of the port area, the Ziegenbach and the Faule Riehe cross under the canal in 90 m long culverts .
Until the 1960s, the area was dominated by mining; Above all potash, sandstone and coal were mined.
At MLK km 127.8 to 128.4 north there are berths with 600 m sloped banks and at MLK 128.9 north there is a 110 m long quay wall . At MLK 128.8 south there is another 460 m long pounded quay.
history
The Mittelland Canal near Sachsenhagen went into operation around 1916 after the first lands had been built in 1912/13. The community then leased the site to the Union-Schiffahrts- und Lagerhausgesellschaft . Potash salt from the Bokeloh shaft was handled primarily , but also forest and agricultural products, fertilizers, construction materials and fuels.
Between 1908 and 1910 a narrow-gauge field railway was built for building materials, which connected the port with Auhagen and Sachsenhagen. In 1914 this was renamed the Schaumburger Kleinbahn. After the First World War and the Great Depression Commercial settled in the 1930s timid there in your location to. The nearby mines were also given sidings and both goods and people were transported.
The facilities survived the Second World War undamaged and experienced further economic growth in the 1950s, so that the port railway could be changed to standard gauge.
Long-term lease agreements were again concluded with the operating company of the port.
In the 1960s, in the course of upgrading and expansion work on the canal, the transshipment points were modernized, but also the port railway, whose operation was stopped in 1961, was terminated.
Commerce and infrastructure
Today, there are no longer any crane or track systems at the port of Sachsenhagen. A transshipment takes place there only by ship / road and there is no business in the port area. If necessary, handling is carried out with a mobile crane or conveyor belts ; Storage facilities are available on 12,500 m² of paved outdoor storage areas. Otherwise there is only a resource shed and a small harbor master's office. Today the port is operated by Rhenus AG.
A large motor cargo ship with a draft of up to 4 m can be moored at the quay walls and handled. In the western port area there is a turning bay for ships up to 100 m in length and berths for five ships, as well as four more on the opposite bank. There are dumpsters, but no lighting.
Only rarely uses Personenschifffahrt the southern border of Saxony Hagens, taking place at the no envelope. The harbors are only suitable for short stopovers for recreational boating.
traffic
Local roads connect the port to the federal highway 65, which runs 5 km to the south, and 5 km north to the federal highway 441 , both of which connect to the federal highway 2 to the east .
There is a public transport stop on Landesstraße L 445 directly at the port. Today there are no railway connections any more.
