Mainhafen Hanau
| Mainhafen Hanau | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE HAU | ||
| owner | City of Hanau | ||
| operator | Hanau Hafen GmbH | ||
| opening | 1924 | ||
| Port type | Inland port | ||
| Throughput | 1.8 million t (2008) | ||
| website | Hanau.de port | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Hanau | ||
| country | Hesse | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '8 " N , 8 ° 55' 6" E | ||
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The Mainhafen Hanau is the inland port in the city of Hanau in Hesse .
It is the second largest port on the Main after Frankfurt's Osthafen and is one of the ports with the largest cargo handling rates on the Main, Main-Danube Canal and Danube .
history
The functional predecessor was the Main Canal , which connected the Neustadt Hanau with the river, but had become increasingly too small for the ships used since the 19th century. The port activities for the city of Hanau increasingly shifted to quays that were built along the river bank between the bridge of the Frankfurt-Bebraer railway to Steinheim and the confluence of the Kinzig in the river. This section of the river should be expanded accordingly at the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century, but already in the planning process it turned out to be too small for the expected traffic and the necessary infrastructure.
The planning was therefore changed: an 800 meter long harbor basin was to be built above the Steinheim Main Bridge . The Prussian State Railways secured a siding to the Ostbahnhof (today: Hanau Hauptbahnhof ). In the area, areas have been designated for the settlement of industry. In 1909 there was a plan drawn up between the city and the Frankfurt hydraulic engineering authority, which in 1910 led the city to decide to build the port. In 1912 the state approval was also available. However, the First World War prevented work from beginning.
It was not until 1921 to 1924 that the project was implemented as part of a job creation measure and the Main Harbor was officially opened on October 25, 1924. On the city side, a monumental entrance was built on the land side with the port gate on Hafenplatz and the accompanying apartment blocks. Two colossal concrete figures by August Bischoff crown the passage and symbolize trade and work. Because of the cogwheels on which one of the figures rests, they are also popularly known as the cheese rollers .
During the Second World War , the port facilities were completely destroyed and only gradually rebuilt after 1950. Around 1960 it was expanded to become an oil port and in the mid-1980s it was upgraded for ships with a draft of up to 3.2 m. In 2009, the heavy lift slab with a load capacity of 80 t was added to the north quay .
The former branch of Aldi Süd GmbH at the port was converted into the Bait-ul-Wahid mosque in 2015 .
Investments
In addition to the waterside shipping traffic, the port has road connections on the land side ( A 3 , A 5 , A 45 , A 66 , B 8 , B 43 , B 45 are all within a short distance) and its own port railway .
Companies in the chemical and building materials industry as well as numerous handicrafts, wholesalers and retailers have settled in the industrial and commercial area at the port. There is also a customs office at the port .
meaning
With the opening of the Main-Danube Canal in 1992, the traffic connected to the port was also opened in the direction of the Danube and Black Sea . The Mainhafen Hanau is now a department of Stadtwerke Hanau GmbH. Since the mid-1980s, it has developed into a logistics service provider, far beyond its activity as a pure port operator.
Today the Mainhafen Hanau is one of the largest German ports on the Main and Danube, measured in terms of ship handling. On the Main, the Hanau port is the second largest after Frankfurt's Osthafen with a quay length of 2.8 km. With 1,363 ship movements and 27,889 wagon movements, freight handling by rail and ship totaled 3.2 million t in 2008 (2007: 3.1 million t). The ship's share was 1.8 million t (2007: 1.5 million t).
The port is home to Oiltanking , one of the largest mineral oil transshipment centers in Europe, but also companies such as Rhenus AG & Co. KG , HUL Hanauer Umschlag and Lager GmbH. The headquarters of Südhessische Asphalt Mischwerke GmbH & Co.KG (SHM-Asphalt), a supraregional supplier to the road construction industry, is also located in the Hanau harbor. SHM-Asphalt works in close cooperation with Hessen-Mobil, the Hessian planning and execution authority for road construction, expansion and road maintenance in the State of Hesse. One of the large mixing plants of Südhessische Asphalt Mischwerke GmbH & Co.KG is also located at the Hanau Hafen location.
literature
- E. Bomhardt: The Main Harbor and its importance . In: Hanau city and country. A home book for school and home . Hanau 1954, p. 419f.
- Martin Hoppe: Hanau and the Main . Hanau 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Hanau harbor
- ↑ Press report Fulder Zeitung , May 2015
- ↑ Aldi branch becomes mosque OP-Online May 2015
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau v. July 23, 2009, local section Frankfurt, p. F2.