Weser transshipment point
The Weser transshipment point is an inland port for inland shipping in Hann. Münden . It is located directly at the confluence of the Werra and Fulda to the Weser . This makes the Weser transshipment point the southernmost port of the Upper Weser. The facility is right next to Bundesstrasse 80 and is also within sight of the Weserstein . The system of the Weser transshipment point today consists of a quay wall and remnants of the earlier storage and equipment rooms.
history
Weserumschlagstelle GmbH as a loading point for freight was founded in 1905 by Norddeutscher Lloyd in Bremen, Wesermühlenaktiengesellschaft in Hameln and the Mündener Magistrat. Construction work began that same year. First, the quay walls were built. A three-story half-timbered building was erected over the quay walls. The Weser transshipment point was connected to Hann. Mouth connected. The cost of the entire system at that time was 600,000 marks. The opening of the Weser transshipment point took place on August 31, 1906.
The loading point was primarily used for handling bulk goods , mostly potash and grain. Quartzite from a quarry on Blümer Berg above Hermannshagen was also transshipped, as were toys for the USA that had been made at home in Thuringia and the Werra Valley.
The freight volume increased steadily until the mid-1930s. The throughput rose from 90,000 tons in 1910 to 105,000 tons in 1927. In 1936, 222,000 tons were handled. Even before the Weser transshipment point was built in 1904, goods were handled in Hann. Muzzle only 6,300 tons.
After the Second World War, the handling of goods from the Soviet-occupied zone and later GDR ceased, so that there was a noticeable decline. In the 1970s, the Weser transshipment point lost its importance for Weser shipping. In 1972 the turnover was 18,000 tons, in 1978 only 12,500 tons. In 1978 the Weser transshipment point was closed.
When the B 80 was expanded in 1960, the half-timbered superstructures of the Weser transshipment point, in which the water police were temporarily located, were torn down. Two fires in 1990 and 1998 severely damaged the remaining parts of the port facility. After the second fire, the heavily damaged upper floors were torn down. Only the lowest part of the building consisting of sandstone vaults is visible today. The remains of the old warehouse are now in private hands. The owner of the quay walls and operator of the loading point is today the Weser transshipment point Wirtschaftsförderungs- und Stadtmarketing (WWS) GmbH of the city of Hann. Münden. In 2015, suspended ceilings from the previous building that were in danger of collapsing were removed and the arcades on the ground floor secured in order to preserve the fabric of the building, which is not listed, for possible later use. There are considerations to build a restaurant or a hotel on the building remains.
A 130 meter long section of the quay wall has been in need of renovation since around 2010, the cost of which is estimated at around one million euros. The city of Hann. Münden or the waterways and shipping office Hann. Münden in question.
Earlier track connection
See main article: Dransfelder Rampe
In 1906, the section over the Dransfeld ramp on the Hannöverschen Südbahn at km 141.0 was given a siding directly in front of the Werra bridge in Hann. Münden, which led down to the banks of the Weser opposite the confluence of the Fulda and Werra rivers on its own railway track . The 1.5-kilometer branch line , known as the port railway , ended at a 240-meter-long quay wall in a specially constructed transshipment point. Here, until 1978, bulk goods such as potash , grain , cement , basalt chippings and gravel were loaded from freight wagons onto barges using a one and a half ton crane that could be moved on two rails. In 1910 the system was expanded with a conveyor belt and in 1927 with electrically operated shovels from Amme-Luther ( Braunschweig ). The complex included an elongated vault made of rubble stones, which served as a storage room for its own power supply. Above was a floor with an engine room and offices as well as a half- timbered, slate-roofed second floor with apartments. Another, tower-like building, which was adjoined by a terrace with a balustrade on the street , protruded far beyond the ensemble of buildings with four floors.
The single-track port railway crossed Questenbergweg 1,100 meters after it branched off from the main line and, after a 200-meter-long cut in the mountain, Göttinger Straße. Shortly before reaching its destination, the railway branched into several tracks, one of which was extended a few hundred meters further in the 1980s to the Bundeswehr water training area on the right of the Weser in order to be able to transport heavy equipment such as pontoon bridge parts by rail .
The decline of the Weser transshipment point and with it the port railway began in 1960 with the demolition of the parts of the building that protruded above street level, supposedly to provide a view of the then completed Weser bridge . In 1978 cargo shipping on the Oberweser was finally stopped and the port railway shut down. The track leading to the water exercise area was last used by a Bundeswehr train in the 1990s. Most of the tracks of the port railway were dismantled by early 2005 and the rock cut was largely backfilled.
Resumption of port operations
In June 2008, the Weser transshipment point resumed port operations in a partial area. Before that, the transhipment point there had to be repaired for 250,000 euros. Since then it has been used again for loading heavy machine parts from heavy-duty transports to inland waterways and vice versa. Due to the heavy weight of the cargo, the ships are mostly loaded and unloaded by two mobile cranes. The operator of the Weser transshipment point plans to further expand the facility.
Loading of a 200-ton cast iron part, July 2008
Loading of a cast iron part, April 2013
Loading of a 186-ton steam superheater, May 2016
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literature
- Erwin May: Münden and surroundings , 5th edition, 1980, p. 284.
- Rudolf Wegner: Traffic and traffic routes in the Hann. Münden , 1992, p. 105 ff.
Web links
- Postcard with Weserstein and Weser transshipment point , used in 1938
swell
- ^ Rudolf Wegner: Traffic and traffic routes in the Hann. Münden , 1992, p. 105
- ^ Rudolf Wegner: Traffic and traffic routes in the Hann. Münden , 1992, p. 108
- ^ Rudolf Wegner: Traffic and traffic routes in the Hann. Münden , 1992, p. 108
- ↑ Erwin May: Münden und Umgebung , 5th edition, 1980, p. 284
- ↑ Erwin May: Münden und Umgebung , 5th edition, 1980, p. 284
- ^ Rudolf Wegner: Traffic and traffic routes in the Hann. Münden , 1992, p. 109
- ↑ Erwin May: Münden und Umgebung , 5th edition, 1980, p. 284
- ↑ Erwin May: Münden und Umgebung , 5th edition, 1980, p. 284
- ↑ Article HNA, January 11, 2007
- ↑ Weser transshipment point: ruins are saved from deterioration in HNA of May 21, 2015
- ↑ The quay wall in Hann. Münden shows damage in HNA from May 22, 2015
- ↑ Hann. Münden is looking for the seawall owner on ndr.de on June 22, 2018
- ↑ Article HNA, June 26, 2008
- ↑ Article HNA, June 26, 2008
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 23.2 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 46.2" E