Port of Worms

Port of Worms
Data
UN / LOCODE	DE WOR
owner	City of Worms
operator	Hafen Betriebs GmbH Worms
opening	Late antiquity
Port type	Inland port
Total area of the port	0.265
Throughput	1.37 million tons
website	http://www.hafen-worms.de/
Geographic information
place	Worms
country	Rhineland-Palatinate
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 38 ′ 25 " N , 8 ° 22 ′ 20" E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 25 " N , 8 ° 22 ′ 20" E
	Location Worms harbor

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The port of Worms is the Rhine port of the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Worms . It consists of a river port between Rhine kilometers 442.160 and 450.400 and the two port basins "Floßhafen" at Rhine kilometer 443,000 and "Handelshafen" at Rhine kilometer 444,500.

history

Georg Braun : View of the city of Worms (1572; after Sebastian Münster 1550). In the right half of the picture the two cranes on the Woog and on the main stream of the Rhine.

The 858 first time in a document of Lorsch mentioned medieval port could not be proven archaeologically so far. Like its late Roman predecessor, it is believed to be directly east of the city fortifications in the area of the Woog arm of the Rhine. In an engraving of the city of Worms in Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia , a crane on the main stream and one on the Woog are documented for the 16th century .

After the Woog had been backfilled, a fortified river port with storage sheds, known as the “Ladeufer”, was built in 1856 in the area of today's Nibelungen Bridge. It had become necessary because the Worms boatmen increasingly turned to the Mannheim harbor due to the poor mooring conditions . The so-called winter or safety harbor, a small harbor basin to protect the ship's bridge from floods or ice, was also built here. From 1890 to 1893, the city of Worms built two docks in the course of the bank fortification, the raft port in the south and the trading port in the north, on the site of the infilled branch of the Rhine in Gießen. Industrial areas subsequently developed in both areas. In 1901/02 a representative building for the municipal port authority was built at the commercial port .

The present port Worms was then in 1969 of two originally separate parts, the 1890 scale of the city of Worms harbor to the south and the former border in the Rheindürkheimer drive to the north, which since the 15th century the main port for the Palatine Oberamt Alzey was .

Facilities

The port is operated by the municipal Hafen Betriebs GmbH Worms . Rhenus Rail St. Ingbert GmbH is the operator of the Worms port railway with a track network of around 21 km . The logistics service provider in the Worms port is Rhenania Worms AG , which is 50% owned by the city of Worms and 50% by Rhenus AG & Co. KG .

The port area comprises a total of 265,000 m², the Floßhafen and trading port basins are 31,500 m² and 33,000 m² respectively. A total of 3,400 m of banks have been developed. The port's container capacity is 18,000 TEU , there are also 50,000 m² of free storage space for bulk goods , storage halls with an area of 13,300 m², grain silos with a capacity of 40,400 m³ and storage floors for 26,000 t.

The following facilities are located in the port area:

three electric cranes from 3 to 15 t
five loading bridges from 1 to 45 t each
a container crane
a tower crane
seven extinguishing devices for grain
two extinguishing devices for mineral oil
a reach stacker .

The facilities in the commercial port are also used by Contargo for ( trimodal ) combined transport , including for block trains on the Trieste – Worms route.

The Floßhafen and Handelshafen docks are designated as protective harbors . The service port of the Worms / Oppenheim suburb of the Mannheim Waterways and Shipping Office is located in the northern part of the raft port .

The privately owned marina in the former winter harbor and the yacht harbor (also Marina Worms ) in the south of the city, which belongs to the Motor-Yacht Club Worms, are not operated by Hafen Betriebs GmbH Worms .

Handling of goods

The average cargo turnover per year is around 1,100,000 t. The main goods handled are chemical products, stone and earth , food and animal feed, agricultural and forestry products, vehicles and machines, iron and steel, petroleum, mineral oil products and gases, fertilizers and solid fuels. Around 150 cargo ships call at the port of Worms every month.

literature

August Weckerling (editor): The harbor and bank structures at Worms 1890–1893 . Kranzbühler, Worms 1893.

Web links

Commons : Port of Worms - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Mathilde Grünewald : Worms from the prehistoric epoch to the Carolingian era . In: History of the City of Worms. Ed. I. A. of the city of Worms by Gerold Bönnen . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 . P. 92
^ Fritz Reuter : Between reaction and the Hessian city order . In: History of the City of Worms. Ed. I. A. of the city of Worms by Gerold Bönnen . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 . P. 443 f.
↑ Fritz Reuter: The leap into modernity: The "New Worms" . In: History of the City of Worms. Ed. I. A. of the city of Worms by Gerold Bönnen . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 . Pp. 496-498.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Data and facts about the Worms location. City administration of Worms, accessed on January 10, 2015 .

[1] Mathilde Grünewald : Worms from the prehistoric epoch to the Carolingian era . In: History of the City of Worms. Ed. I. A. of the city of Worms by Gerold Bönnen . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 . P. 92

[2] Fritz Reuter : Between reaction and the Hessian city order . In: History of the City of Worms. Ed. I. A. of the city of Worms by Gerold Bönnen . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 . P. 443 f.

[3] Fritz Reuter: The leap into modernity: The "New Worms" . In: History of the City of Worms. Ed. I. A. of the city of Worms by Gerold Bönnen . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 . Pp. 496-498.

[Standortdaten-4] Data and facts about the Worms location. City administration of Worms, accessed on January 10, 2015 .