Leinehafen (Hanover)

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The north bank of the Leine at the location of the former Leine harbor, which has almost completely disappeared, in the background the Bremer Damm expressway in the northern part of Hanover;
State at the beginning of 2016
the quay wall can still be seen when the water is clear

The Leinehafen in Hanover was an inland port built at the beginning of the 20th century on the north bank of the Leine . Based on the medieval predecessor buildings around Hanover, the port was also called “ Stapel ”. The technical structures along a quay wall around 600 meters long began shortly after the confluence with the Ihme in what is now Hanover's Nordstadt district, opposite Linden-Nord .

history

The Leinehafen was built on the initiative and as a prestige project of the Hanover city director Heinrich Tramm at the beginning of the 20th century. As a trading port for the handling of goods by shipping , it was to be in economic competition with the Linden port , which was operated by the then still independent industrial city of Linden .

To operate the Leinehafen, the Leine was straightened and widened to around 70 meters during the First World War , partly with the use of forced laborers from Russia : from the confluence of the Ihme to the weir between Limmer and Herrenhausen . From there, could, for example, bulk carriers over the then Leash descent channel , later leash connection channel called, and continue on the leash Abstiegskanal- lock the branch canal Linden reach.

The Leinehafen was finally opened in 1917. In addition to the approximately 600-meter-long quay wall , an approximately 250-meter-long loading area was built, to which three 60-ton barges could moor at the same time so that they could be loaded by crane . Bulk goods such as sand, coal, sugar beet and cane sugar or molding sand for Hanomag were handled .

Since the Leinehafen was built purely as a city port for local traffic, the goods were delivered from or to the ships with cars on the Hanoverian tram . From the Glocksee depot there was a track on a wooden bridge over the Leine. It started operating in 1916, and traffic ceased in the mid-1920s. However, the track remained in place until the late 1940s and was used to park cars.

In the early days and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , the Leinehafen still had its largest volume turnover : while around 32,000 tons were handled in 1919/1920, it was only 730 tons in 1925/1926. Before the Second World War , the port operations apparently ceased.

Until 1955 the Leinehafen was still on the city ​​maps of Hanover . It was not until the Bremer Damm, built in 1959, as a feeder to the Westschnellweg, and the accompanying greening of the banks of the Leine, was finally removed.

See also

Other ports still in existence in Hanover are the Brinker Hafen on the Mittelland Canal , the Misburger Hafen on the Misburg canal and the Lindener Hafen on the Hanover-Linden canal .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Leinehafen. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 369.
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 406ff.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Leonhardt: Completion of the Leinehafen , in which. "Hannoversche Histories" .... p. 29.
  4. ^ Horst Moch: Germany's largest tram freight transport Hanover 1899–1953. Üstra, Hannover no year 1986, ISBN 3-9802783-2-8 , p. 49.
  5. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Bremer Damm , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 48.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 43 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 39.1"  E