Mülheim harbor
| Mülheim harbor | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE MMO | ||
| operator | Cologne shipyard Deutz GmbH & Co.KG | ||
| opening | 1880 | ||
| Port type | Protective port, shipyard port, oil port | ||
| website | www.ksd-koeln.de | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Cologne | ||
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '18 " N , 6 ° 59' 8" E | ||
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The Mülheimer Hafen is a Cologne port on the right bank of the Rhine with no cargo handling in Cologne-Mülheim on Rhine km 691.5.
history
On May 7, 1259, Konrad von Hochstaden , Archbishop of Cologne, granted the city the right to stack . Every foreign ship captain who transported his goods across the Rhine had to offer them for three days in Cologne. The merchants tried to avoid this. Therefore, above Cologne, Zündorf became a port and trading center for goods traffic with the Duchy of Berg. An arm of the Rhine between the Groov - an old Rhine island - and the banks of the Rhine served as the port . The goods shipped on the Rhine were reloaded onto wagons in Zündorf and transported overland to Mülheim am Rhein . However, this was not without risk. Anyone who could prove that they wanted to circumvent the stacking right by land was threatened with expropriation of their goods.
Industrialization promoted the construction of the first port in Cologne. Felten & Guilleaume (F&G) first operated under this name on June 1, 1823 and achieved world fame with its cable production. Between 1853 and 1874 there was the Mülheimer Hütte , operated with two blast furnaces , whose waste dump was called "Schlackenberg". In 1868 she had to lay off all 77 workers due to a lack of orders. The Carlswerk was established on June 14, 1874 by F&G, which became an independent partnership in 1892 and went public in 1899 as "Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk AG". The port with the octagonal customs tower for the free port has been in operation since 1880; it was partly on Deutz territory. In 1896, F&G acquired the Mülheim port facility on Kranstrasse. The former Hees'sche stepping crane was replaced by two steam cranes when the quay walls were renewed in 1899. The old shipyard was used until 1924.
Between 1922 and 1925, F & G's new factory harbor was built on Schlackenberg, the remnant of the Mülheimer Hütte . The area was created by leveling the 200-meter-long site as a loading and unloading facility on the bank that protrudes into the Rhine and served F&G as a "Rhine shipyard". The client was the city of Cologne, which left it to F&G as a long lease for 99 years. The port of Mülheim was used for bulk and general cargo handling, the largest customer was F&G. Since the shutdown of the plant, the port has lacked its main customer, which has had an enormous impact on port handling.
The port of Mülheim was the target of the first bombing raids on Cologne during the Second World War on May 12, 1940.
Since the dismantling of the only heavy lift crane in May 2000, the port of Mülheim has no longer handled any goods, but instead operates slipway systems for ships up to 110 meters in length with 14 slipway wagons with a load capacity of approx. 100 t each for dangerous goods transport ships. The shipyard Deutz GmbH & Co. KG , founded in 1978 - whose predecessor shipyard has been operating in the port since 1929 - also maintains extensive facilities in the Mülheim harbor for the repair, modernization and conversion of cargo and passenger ships. It also has three land berths and five water berths as well as a 450 t stevendock. There are two tower cranes on the site for transport on the sheet pile wall and the slipway. A propeller repair workshop is attached to the shipyard. In the winter months, the Deutz shipyard prepares the Cologne-Düsseldorfer's white fleet for the new season. The growing number of river cruise ships is also important for the shipyard. The Goethe was converted to diesel drive here. The port of Mülheim will also be of considerable importance as a port facility in the future, particularly for increased use as a night berth and repair port. The 180-meter-long pedestrian bridge made of prestressed concrete, known as the "Katzenbuckel", was built in 1955 according to plans by the architect Bernhard Hermkes for the 1957 Federal Garden Show .
As the only port in Cologne's urban area, the Mülheimer Hafen including its water surface (port basin) does not belong to the municipal ports and goods traffic of Cologne (HGK), but is part of the international waterway "Rhine", which is dedicated according to § 1 of the Federal Waterways Act . Therefore the port belongs to the Federal Republic; the water and shipping office in Cologne , represented here with a branch office (the buoy yard waits for shipping signs), is only the operator on behalf of the federal government. The land area is 260,000 m², the water area 127,300 m².
economy
The construction diving company Moissl is based on the landside quay on the Auenweg. The company has a 200 meter long quay here and has around 6000 m² of water available for its ships. One of the ships is the MS Obelix , a motorized truck with 2 truck mixers and a concrete pump with a laying mast. This allows special concrete to be placed under water.
Others
The Kelly Family lived in the harbor between 1989 and 1996 on the houseboat "Sean O'Kelly", a 34-meter-long coal ship built in 1929 in the Netherlands and weighing 160 t. In June 2004 the ship came to the Technik-Museum Speyer . The adjacent quay area was the target of many young fans and had to be protected by a wall for security reasons.
From 1998 to 2013 the television series Die Anrheiner was filmed by WDR in Hafenstrasse . The backdrop city was built directly at the transition from Mülheim harbor to the banks of the Rhine. This was torn down in 2013 after the last filming of the series.
The old Fritz harbor crane was sold to the Elbe by the HGK and is now working in Dessau-Roßlau .
Harbor entrance
The Anrheiner at Mülheim harbor
WSA with buoy yard
Pedestrian bridge, popularly known as Katzenbuckel
Web links
- muelheimerhafen.com - Website about the Mülheimer Hafen (history and current construction projects)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolf Klein, Cologne in the 19th Century: From the Imperial City to the Large City , 1992, p. 294
- ↑ Peter Fuchs (Ed.), Chronicle of the History of the City of Cologne , Volume 2, 1991, p. 240
- ↑ Bonapart on the Stevendock extension
- ↑ KSD Cologne tower cranes
- ^ Bonapart on passenger ship maintenance
- ^ Cologne Waterways and Shipping Office, Mülheim branch
- ↑ Construction divers about special concrete Mülheim ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Old Hafenkran via Fritz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
