Jade-Weser-Port (1971)
Jade-Weser-Port (officially Jade-Weser-Port - Germany's Universal Harbor ) was a private planning draft presented at the beginning of the 1970s for the construction of a multifunctional transport port on the German North Sea coast .
Planning
On July 10, 1971 the planning group "Jade-Weser-Port", headed by Ulrich Tappe and the employees Rolf Rasch and Friedhelm Krzensk, presented a planning concept for the Jade-Weser area, which was given the working title "Jade-Weser-Port" - Germany's universal port - got.
The main idea was that the 35-kilometer-wide coastal strip between the seaports of Wilhelmshaven and Bremerhaven , including the ports of Elsfleth , Brake and Nordenham, should merge into a uniformly developed coastal and port region with an industrial landscape and, as Germany's “First Port Region”, develop an economically dynamic development as shown by other port regions in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
During the planning work, the Tappe team assumed that the existing development plans in Bremen / Bremerhaven, Nordenham and Wilhelmshaven were drawn up from a local point of view, but that the large number of individual plans could not result in a meaningful whole. That is why the team put all local considerations aside and combined what was already available in the region between Jade and Weser with optimal opportunities for further development. This gave rise to the central planning idea of a new, modern urban network as a ribbon city, in which the existing infrastructures were to be optimized with new infrastructures to form a meaningful whole.
This is a thought model that was not created for today or tomorrow, but as a planning basis for the coming generation.
Rotterdam with its outer port Europort is a coastal region of around 40 kilometers. Amsterdam with Ijmuiden comes to 45 kilometers and Marseille with its Fohs region is even larger. Why should the Weser-Jade area, which has grown together naturally, not just as naturally be viewed as a seaward-facing region of port and industrial centers with corresponding recreational values?
With this question in mind, the Tappe planning team went to work and combined the development ideas of the chambers of industry and commerce in this area and the drafts of the planning and funding companies as well as the state governments of Bremen and Lower Saxony to create a meaningful spatial plan with space for everything that already exists and space for Development needs is.
With this planning nothing is taken away from anyone, only everyone can win, because with the "Jade-Weser-Port" or "Weser-Jade-Port" the "First German Universal Port" was formed, which offers a wide range of services for the shipping divisions from super ships to special ships, from container ships to fishing trawlers, from passenger ships to trawlers.
Details of the planning concept are described in the "Local Documentation 1971" of the Wilhelmshavener Zeitung.
The plans provoked lively discussion in the region and, for the most part, rejection. Shortly afterwards, the submitted draft idea was only a platform for future planning, a guide and working paper.
Identical names
The name " JadeWeserPort " for the container terminal opened in 2012 has nothing in common with the basic idea of the "Jade-Weser-Port". The designation "JadeWeserPort" for a container terminal is a private local project with public support, whereas the "Jade-Weser-Port" was a private regional planning for the Jade-Weser area without public funding. The planning and the work title are protected by copyright.
Web links
- "Article about the Jade-Weser-Port from the Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of July 10, 1971" on antiport.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung: "Local Documentation 1971" - articles from the Wilhelmshavener Zeitung with the Jade-Weser-Port-Plan