Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity

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The two provisional terminal buildings of the Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity (2011)

The Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity , also Hamburg Cruise Center 1 ( CC1 ) is one of the cruise terminals in Hamburg and offers two berths for cruise ships near the center in HafenCity in the Strandkai district there .

history

At this place, which used to be called Großer Grasbrook , from 1900 the 200,000 m³ gasometer was the largest gas container in Europe. Coal for the Hamburg gas works was extinguished here until the 1980s . HHLA later maintained the Cellpap Terminal Hamburg here with a hall for the storage of cellulose .

The Hamburg-Grasbrook cruise terminal was created in 2002 as part of the expansion of HafenCity . The quay route was called Strandkai in this area and was now named in the eastern part of the section of the two new berths for cruise ships after Hamburg's twin city Chicagokai.

Before there was a cruise terminal in Hamburg, most of the cruise ships were handled in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Hafen or the Hansahafen, and the Überseebrücke or the St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken were occasionally used. On the latter, however, there was a ban on motor vehicles, so the supply of the cruise ships was only possible to a limited extent. For the passengers, embarking the ships directly in the port basin was quite uncomfortable.

Temporary Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity

The Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity offers two berths for ships up to a length of 330 and 295 meters and a target depth of 11.5 meters ( LAT ). Two cruise ships can moor here at the same time. When the Queen Mary 2 calls in, with a length of 345 meters, both spaces are required; the draft is about 11 meters.

Passengers are handled in a temporary handling hall made of containers . There are several provisional parking spaces in front of this. It can also be reached via the Überseequartier underground station, just a few meters north of it .

The Cruise Center has been operated by CGH Cruise Gate Hamburg GmbH since September 2014 .

Terminal 2 of the temporary cruise center was dismantled in October 2016 . This measure was planned from the outset in order to create space for the development of the southern Überseequartier. The future Cruise Center HafenCity will be built in this position. Until it opens, operations will be guaranteed via Terminal 1 and a landing stage at Baakenhöft.

Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity of the future

As the development of HafenCity continued, one of the currently provisional terminal buildings was replaced by a new building from 2017. As part of HafenCity's 34/14 project, a 3,000 m² cruise terminal, underground car park, waiting area for twelve buses and taxi stops are to be built at the same location . The terminal will be integrated into an office, residential and shopping complex, which will also include a hotel. Passengers will be able to move from one of the upper levels of the building to the ship almost at the same level, so that the quay directly on the water can then be used by the public. The new terminal is expected to be ready in 2021. The cost of the new terminal is estimated at around 42 million euros. The Hamburg city-state is to give the French investor of the complex a "share" of around 10 million euros.

  • Draft of the planned new terminal building (former plans)

  • Draft of the planned new terminal building (current plans)

Seafarers Lounge

The Seafarers Lounges were founded by the German Seemannsmission (DSM) specifically to support and supply crew members of the cruise ships . The Seafarers Lounge has three locations in Hamburg, in the Cruise Centers in Altona , HafenCity and Steinwerder . Here the seafarers can contact their families and shop free of charge. They can also transfer money for their families and exchange foreign currency. The lounges are located in the security area of ​​the cruise center, so that the crew members do not go ashore, but can visit the lounges quickly and unbureaucratically. They were founded by DSM Altona and DSM Hamburg-Harburg. They work very closely with the seaman's missions and on-board support in the Port of Hamburg, often in personal union.

Further landing stages for cruise ships in Hamburg

literature

Web links

Commons : Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old port photos from the HHLA picture archive , Hamburg photo archive, accessed on August 10, 2012
  2. ↑ Ralf Lange : Untergrund und Übersee ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 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. , Quartier, magazine for Hafencity, Speicherstadt and Katharinenviertel, Quartier 03, September – November 2008, accessed on August 10, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quartier-magazin.com
  3. ↑ Cruise Center HafenCity: Terminal 2 is being dismantled. In: hafencity.com. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, October 28, 2016, accessed on November 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Project 34/14 ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of HafenCity GmbH  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hafencity.com
  5. ↑ Future plans from hamburgcruisecenter.eu ( Memento from February 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Another shore power system for luxury liners · Replacement building will be integrated in Überseequartier · Hamburg has to pay a higher share . In: Daily port report from September 19, 2017, p. 15
  7. ^ Website of the Seafarers Lounge Hamburg. Retrieved July 16, 2018 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 50.8 ″  E