Crooked dog (gantry crane)
The so-called Krumme Hund was a gantry crane in the Westhafen in Herne-Crange on the Rhine-Herne Canal . The crane was under monument protection standing monument . Its entry in the list of monuments of the city of Herne took place on March 9, 1999 (monument no. A 639.1). In the course of the backfilling of the harbor basin and the rebuilding of the entire area with a container storage and transshipment point, however, it was removed from the list of monuments in 2011 and on 13/14 March 2012.
history
As soon as the Rhine-Herne Canal was completed, the majority of the canal ports planned along its 39-kilometer route began operations. The Wanner Westhafen , which is managed by Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft Wanne-Herne mbH , ranked first among the 20 ports mainly used for coal traffic, after the coal it handled. In 1926 it achieved an annual turnover of 2,286,505 tons, which found their way to the Westhafen from the catchment area ( Wanne-Eickel , Herne , Bochum and Recklinghausen ). As a result of an oversupply on the coal market and, at the same time, increased demand for certain types and qualities of coal, an expansion was tackled, in the course of which a bridge crane system consisting of three almost identical electric bridge and luffing cranes was installed in 1927. Including the crooked dog , which was officially listed as crane 4. In October 1928 the new harbor basin was opened to traffic. The crane, initially mainly used for handling gravel and sand, also worked for the coal separation plant from 1945 to 1997. Subsequently, he was used to backfill the harbor basin, which, irony of fate, was ultimately what triggered his laying down. At the end of the backfilling, it stood as a solitaire on a fragment of track at its old location. As a bridge crane, however, it stood for the development of work and production conditions and had become an identifying feature for the port as well as for the population, it was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Herne in 1999 as a monument. This entry was confirmed in a judgment of the Administrative Court of Gelsenkirchen on September 12, 2002.
In the course of the further expansion, the Wanne-Herner-Eisenbahn und Hafen GmbH (WHE), which also owned the Krumme Hund , planned the construction of a container terminal. But the crane stood in the way of erecting it. The WHE, which was in economic difficulties, was unable to maintain or relocate the crane, whereupon it was removed from the list of monuments at the end of 2011. Various initiatives to prevent the demolition, for example on the part of the Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV , the Haus Crange association , which for this purpose renamed itself the Friends' Association for the Rescue of the Crooked Dog or a petition to the corresponding state parliament committee ultimately failed. After initial preparations on March 13, the crooked dog fell on March 14, 2012. The inauguration of the container terminal along with two gantry cranes followed on February 6, 2013, almost a year later.
See also
literature
- Jürgen Hagen: The case of the crooked dog. In: Georg Eggenstein, Herbert Niewerth, Arnulf Siebeneicker (eds.): 100 years of the Rhine-Herne Canal. The waterway right through the district. (At the same time catalog for the exhibition in the LWL-Industriemuseum Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg with stops in Herne, Gelsenkirchen, Datteln and Duisburg May 4 to September 28, 2014) Klartext Verlag , Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1186-4 , p. 96 -99.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crooked dog. WAZ from January 15, 2012, accessed on May 31, 2014, with numerous images.
- ↑ Crooked dog fell. WAZ of March 14, 2012, accessed on May 31, 2014, with numerous images.
- ↑ a b c d Jürgen Hagen: The fall of the crooked dog. In: Georg Eggenstein, Herbert Niewerth, Arnulf Siebeneicker (eds.): 100 years of the Rhine-Herne Canal. The waterway right through the district. (At the same time catalog for the exhibition in the LWL-Industriemuseum Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg with stops in Herne, Gelsenkirchen, Datteln and Duisburg May 4 to September 28, 2014) Klartext Verlag, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1186-4 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '54.2 " N , 7 ° 9' 13.7" E