Holteyer harbor

Former harbor basin

Arch bridge made of Ruhr sandstone at the entrance to the Holteyer harbor

Towpath over the arch bridge, before the asphalting at the end of 2017

The Holteyer Hafen in the Essen district of Überruhr-Holthausen was built in 1837/1838 as one of the first real harbors (not just as a landing stage) on the Ruhr and closed in 1880.

It served the Ruhr shipping as a security port in the event of storms, low or high tide and ice. In addition, the coal ships, the so-called Ruhraaken , wintered in the port.

history

It is named after the Holtey family, who formerly lived nearby . On the towpath, which was built around 1780, merchants and industrialists had already requested the security harbor in 1833. When construction began at the beginning of 1837, the steam excavator ordered from Ruhrort was not yet ready for operation, the brick workers had already been hired elsewhere. After further problems with weather and floods, the port was finally completed at the end of 1838 with the help of foreign workers from Paderborn . A sworn port overseer, who lived on site in a port master's house with a warehouse, supervised the port operations from then on. In the southern area of ​​the harbor basin there was a ship's room. The port facilities were maintained by the Ruhrort district's hydraulic engineering insector.

The nearby Mönkhoffsbank and Vereinigte Charlotte collieries in the Wichteltal were connected to the port by a horse-powered railway and a coal mine directly on the Ruhr.

Another security port , the Neukirch port , was close to becoming independent at the time .

With the construction of the railways in the Ruhr Valley , transports on the Ruhr became increasingly unprofitable and eventually stopped. The port was used as such until 1880 and then left to its own devices in terms of water technology.

The Turnerbund 1900 e. In 1929 V. Überruhr converted an old barn at the harbor basin into a gym and in 1938 built a boathouse. He also used the pool as an outdoor pool.

Current condition, current use

The port entrance through the intact quarry stone arch bridge has been preserved. The old towpath runs over the bridge, still partly with original paving, today as part of the RuhrtalRadweg . This approximately 240-year-old pavement was covered with asphalt at the end of 2017 at the request of the city’s green office Grün und Gruga and with the approval of the Düsseldorf district government . The port basin is still recognizable as a body of water, but there are no more port facilities. The harbor basin, the bridge and the towpath have been a listed building since July 11, 1988.

Today the paddle department of the Turnerbund 1900 e. V. Essen-Überruhr active. The water area is also offered as a fishing area by the city of Essen, with the main fish species: river eels , bream , chub , pike , carp and tench .

In 2007, the city of Essen created the Holteyer Hafen / Stadtpark Überruhr project and included it in the Western Ruhr Valley master plan . The residential area of ​​Überruhr is to be strengthened and tourism is to be promoted throughout the Ruhr Valley. Plans for the years 2015 to 2020 provide for the port to be protected from silting up and excessive reed growth, the city park to be extended to the port and various lines of sight to the water area exposed. The costs are estimated at 200,000 euros.

See also

• List of sights in the Ruhr valley

Web links

Commons : Holteyer Hafen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture
• Towpath bridge at Holteyer Hafen at the bridge web
• Holteyer harbor with maps of the historical and current situation
• Holteyer harbor soil monument with bridge and remains of the towpath (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holteyer Harbor. (PDF) In: List of monuments of the city of Essen. Retrieved April 17, 2018 . 
2. ^ Gregor von Hirschfeld. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: Statistics of the Düsseldorf administrative district. 1874, Retrieved April 7, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Chronicle Turnerbund 1900 e. V. Essen-Überruhr. (PDF; 2.1 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Turnerbund 1900 e. V. 2000, p. 6 , archived from the original on April 13, 2015 ; Retrieved April 7, 2015 . 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.  
4. ↑ Trouble with dreary asphalt on the bridge at Holteyer Harbor . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 12, 2017
5. ↑ Water regulations. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Fischerei-Verein Essen e. V. May 1, 2005, archived from the original on September 12, 2014 ; Retrieved April 7, 2015 . 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.  
6. ^ Holteyer harbor and city park Überruhr. (PDF; 4.7 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Konzept Ruhr. August 2009, p. 77 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 7, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '43 "  N , 7 ° 5' 22.4"  E