Loschwitz harbor

Aerial view of Dresden, the port (on the right edge of the picture) is north of the Blue Wonder at the beginning of the Elbe arc

The Loschwitz port is an inland port in the Saxon state capital Dresden on the orographic right side of the Elbe in the eponymous district of Loschwitz . It is in the middle of the one kilometer stretch between the Blue Wonder and Dinglinger's vineyard .

history

View upstream into the harbor entrance (on the left edge of the picture) and the Blue Wonder

Shipping on the Upper Elbe was relatively insignificant until the beginning of the 19th century. Often sailing ships were used which were towed upstream . Goods were mostly handled at simple landing sites . When a stern-wheel steamboat from Heinrich Wilhelm Calberla , owner of the Calberlaschen Zuckersiederei , arrived in Dresden on May 7, 1835 with two barges in tow, steamship travel on the Upper Elbe began. The Elbdampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft , founded in the following year, was granted the privilege of steam navigation in the Kingdom of Saxony for five years. After two takeovers in 1849 and 1851, the company was renamed in 1867 as the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company .

In order to keep its own steamers free of ice during the winter, the company decided in 1863 to build a winter port near Loschwitz, construction of which began in September 1864. By 1867, the company created the Loschwitz port upstream of what was then Dresden's city limits and at its own expense in the course of state regulation of the Elbe , by expanding and dredging a section of the river that had been gained. In addition, they increased the Korrektionsdamm ( parallel work ) to a harbor dam. The fact that in the 19th century a port on the Upper Elbe was not financed by the state but rather privately was the rule rather than the exception. Accordingly, only society used this port, whereby it protected itself from competing companies even without a monopoly position. A major expansion of the port took place in 1877. Good 18,000 cubic meters of excavated gravel and soil were removed by downstream barges to one and a half kilometers, newly built urban water Saloppe transported to there which are provided with manifolds groyne fields to be filled.

Towards the end of the Second World War, the Loschwitz Elbebad , which wintered in the harbor, was badly damaged in the air raids on Dresden .

The Loschwitz port has meanwhile lost its former economic importance and since 1970 it has also lost its function as an emergency and winter port for the White Fleet . It is used by two water sports clubs, the Dresden-Loschwitz water sports club, which built its own club building there in 1978, and the Elbe Dresden motor water sports club .

During the Elbe flood in 2002 and again during the Elbe flood in 2013 , the area around the port on Körnerweg was badly affected. Among other things, a building on stilts, the stilts of which were stiffened with walls to form a usable ground floor in GDR times, was flooded to the lower edge of the upper floor. As a result, a functional building on stilts was added in 2015/2016 and the ground floor was dismantled so that in the event of a flood the water can flow through under the two buildings.

Sources and further reading

Footnotes

↑ ^a ^b Saxon Engineers and Architects Association, Dresden Architects Association (ed.): The buildings, engineering and industrial applications of Dresden . C. C. Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1878, p. 587 ( digital copy of the SLUB Dresden).
^ Association for Socialpolitik (ed.): The shipping of German currents: Investigations into their tax system, regulatory costs and traffic conditions (= writings of the Association for Socialpolitik . Volume 100 ). Duncker & Humblot, 1903, p. 66 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Kurt Fischer: A study on the Elbe shipping in the last 100 years with special consideration of the question of the collection of shipping taxes (= collection of economic and statistical treatises of the political science seminar to Halle a. D. S. volume 58 ). Jena 1907, p. 158 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): Statistics of the German Empire . Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau , 1908, p. 132 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ The civil engineer . tape 36 . A. Felix, 1890, p. 285 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Statistical and financial communications . In: Nikolaus Heinrich Schilling , Hans Bunte (Ed.): Journal for gas lighting and related types of lighting as well as for water supply. Organ of the Association of Gas and Water Experts in Germany with its branches . 21st year, no. 13 . Oldenbourg , Munich July 1878, p. 412 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
↑ Loschwitz. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved July 19, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b About us. Water sports club Dresden-Loschwitz e. V., accessed on July 19, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b The history of the association. Motorwassersportclub Elbe Dresden, accessed on July 19, 2018 .
↑ New functional building planned for the “Elbe” motor water sports club. State capital Dresden, February 2, 2015, accessed on December 18, 2019 (press release).