Wesel Lippe Harbor

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Aerial view of Wesel, looking south-west, below left the Lippe loop with the tree-lined harbor basin

The Lippe port of Wesel was one of several ports of refuge (e.g. to secure ships in case of ice etc.) that were built along the Lippe in the 19th century when the Lippe was navigable from the Rhine to Lippstadt.

The heyday began around 1840 and ended at the beginning of the 20th century. Locks and weirs provided the Lippe with a greater depth and a more even water level; the ships were pulled on rope paths by horses . There were also some attempts with smaller steamships. However, increasing silting up and the expansion of other transport routes made the Lippe shipping unprofitable. With the start of the Haltern – Wesel – Venlo railway in 1874, general cargo transport ceased. Until shortly after the turn of the century, the harbor was still used by the August Böhme sawmill and planing mill.

the southern end of the former harbor basin

In 1863 Luyken and Tigler founded a brewery in the Lippe harbor. They produced the better storable bottom-fermented beer, as it was already brewed in Bavaria and Berlin. The proximity to the port not only had advantages in terms of transport, in winter the ice for the ice cellar could be cut there. In 1900 the company was taken over by Habich and Voss and modernized. In 1919 the brewing contingents were sold to the Dortmund Actien brewery. The brewing operation was stopped. A filling and sales branch was established for this purpose. In 1965 the workforce still numbered 52. There was an efficient fleet of vehicles and a marquee service. The DAB / Hansa Group later changed its sales strategy and in 1981 also dissolved the Wesel branch.

The old harbor wall on the “Am Lippehafen” street in Wesel and the nearby pond, which emerged from the harbor basin, still bear witness to the extent of the former Lippe Harbor. Today the canoe friends Lippe are stationed there, the canoe association NRW operates the Otto Vorberg Haus as a canoe home and sports school. Today's pond is used for fishing, the surrounding area as a campsite.

The Lippe Harbor is part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

Web links

Commons : Lippehafen Wesel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ District governments Arnsberg Detmold: Information sheets on locations on the right and left of the Römer-Lippe-Route
  2. ↑ http://www.familie-luyken.de/07Genealogie/09Gen/09005.htm

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 52 ″  E