Hanseatic City of Bremen Office

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The Hanseatic City of Bremen Office (HBA) was a Bremen authority in Bremerhaven . In the founding years, the HBA building was Bremerhaven's most important “landmark of civil sovereignty”.

The Hanseatic City of Bremen Port Authority (HBH) is today (2017) responsible for port-specific sovereign tasks in the area of ​​ports in the state of Bremen , with its headquarters in Bremen .

tasks

Port Authority

The HBH acts as the port authority (head office) through the port captain . When a ship passes the port border, he assigns it a berth . The port captain is responsible for the maritime operation of the port, the exercise of port and shipping police tasks of port security as well as the supervision of the seaman's offices and the permission to fish .

Port construction

The port construction authority took care of the technical operation of the locks and movable bridges , the maintenance and construction of the quays , the road and track network in the port and the approximately 80 buildings in Bremen. Maintaining the water depth in the ports is a major task. Two bucket chain excavators , a washer and auxiliary equipment such as tugs and barges were available for this. The constant adaptation of the port to traffic requirements is one of the most important tasks and constantly results in new construction measures. The Bremerhaven container terminal was one of the largest new construction projects . Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 25.7 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 49.2"  E

history

Hanseatic City of Bremen Office

Former HBA building on Bussestrasse

The Hanseatic City of Bremen Office (HBA) bore the name from an old tradition that goes back to the first ports in Bremerhaven . It essentially fulfilled tasks as a port and port construction authority. In the city of Bremen's overseas port area, it was the municipal administration, administrative police and building regulations authority. In addition, it was the water and dike authority for the entire port area. The varied tasks resulted from the fact that the HBA was active on the one hand as an office of the city of Bremen (in the city's overseas port area) and on the other hand as a state authority in the state's own fishing port (Bremerhaven) . It belonged to the municipality of Bremerhaven in the province of Hanover . By resolution of the Allied Control Council , it fell to the State of Bremen in 1947 when the Free State of Prussia was dissolved.

In the city of Bremen, the port administration and maintenance tasks were carried out by the Bremen Port Authority. It was created on April 1, 1990 from the Bremen Port Authority (port authority / port captain) and the Bremen Port Authority (new construction, maintenance, servicing, property management).

As part of the administrative optimization, the Hanseatic City of Bremen Office (HBA) and the Port Authority of Bremen were merged on June 1, 1998. The authority was named Hansestadt Bremisches Hafenamt (HBH).

As part of the further reforms to realign the tasks, the warranty tasks (maintenance, servicing, new construction) of the HBH were transferred to bremenports GmbH & Co KG on January 1, 2002 . After the tasks of community, building and environmental management had been transferred back to the responsible senatorial offices since around 2013, the HBH performs the port authority / port captain role for both Bremerhaven and Bremen. The tasks of the port authority / port captain in the ports of Bremerhaven and Bremen include, as since 1827, ensuring the safety and ease of shipping in the ports of Bremen. This also includes activities in the area of ​​dangerous goods transport, occupational safety, environmental protection, lock controls, the approval of tug and mooring companies and port pilotage.

By 1980 the HBA had around 650 employees.

See also Bremenports .

building

Bremisches Amt- und Hafenhaus

Hanseatic City of Bremen Office in Bremerhaven (1900)

The Bremisches Amtshaus - also Bremisches Amts- und Hafenhaus or Bremisches Haus - was the first stone building in the newly founded town of Bremerhaven in 1827 . It was built in 1829 by the Dutch builder van Limbeck (or van Limbeek ). Built in the classical style , it stood by the lock to the first port basin of Bremerhaven - roughly where the Alfred Wegener Institute is today.

The two-storey main building was built from light-colored stones with a (eaves) roof parallel to the street . It was 16.2 meters long and 9.9 meters wide. The front was divided into seven window axes, with a portico with four Ionic columns and a triangular gable in front of the middle three .

The inscription was on the head of the porch

HANSESTADT BREMISCHES AMT

The Bremen coat of arms was placed directly above the entrance portal . The main building was flanked by two identical one-story side buildings.

Difficulties arose during the construction of the office building when the executors increased the cost of the portico after the construction work began. The Bremen deputation then decided to do without the entire front end. However, through the mediation of the port builder Jacobus Johannes van Ronzelen , the building could be completed as planned. The first bailiff in Bremerhaven was Johann Heinrich Castendyk .

The building was destroyed in the Second World War in the heaviest of many air raids on Bremerhaven on September 18, 1944.

Bussestrasse 27

Bussestrasse building

For a long time after 1945, the Hanseatic City of Bremen Office (HBA) had an office at Bussestrasse No. 27 in Bremerhaven, Geestemünde district, in a two-storey double building on the Geeste .
The institute for marine resources IMARE has been housed here since 2009 .

Official headquarters after 1945

Today's official seat

After the Second World War , the former building of the "Kommando Hafen" police force in Bremen, Walle district, Überseestadt district , Hafenstrasse 51/53 at the corner of Überseetor 20, became the headquarters of today's Hanseatic City of Bremen Port Authority. This five-storey building was built in 1925 for the Bremen police and has been a listed building in Bremen since 2007 .

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ It may be the later lock keeper Andreas van Limbeck , who worked for van Ronzelen in the planning and construction of the port.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Jöchner (Ed.): Political Spaces: City and Country in the Early Modern Age . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-05-003774-5 , pp. 61 .
  2. ^ A b c d Ulrich Miekley: Hanseatic City of Bremen Office (HBA). In: Lars U. Scholl (Hrsg.): Bremerhaven - a port history guide . Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum / Ditzen, Bremerhaven 1980, pp. 75–76.
  3. ↑ a b c Information from the port captain / head of the HBH
  4. ↑ Calendar of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for the year 1842 . Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1842, p.  52 .
  5. ^ Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the architecture of Bremen . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1964, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p.  513 .
  6. ↑ Harry Gabcke (ed.): Bremerhaven in two centuries . 1st volume. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1996, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 .
  7. ^ Monument database of the LfD