Main harbor Wertheim
| Main harbor Wertheim | |||
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| owner | Main-Tauber district and the city of Wertheim | ||
| operator | ZG Raiffeisen eG | ||
| opening | 1967 | ||
| Port type | Inland port | ||
| Throughput | 172,958 t (2015) | ||
| website | mainhafen-wertheim.de | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Wertheim | ||
| country | Baden-Württemberg | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 46 '58 " N , 9 ° 28' 31" E | ||
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The Mainhafen Wertheim is the inland port of a special-purpose association of the city of Wertheim and the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg . Tenant of the Wertheimer district Bestenheid lying port is the ZG cooperative . The Mainhafen Wertheim is the only port on the Main in Baden-Württemberg.
history
prehistory
Due to its location on the Main and Tauber , shipping has always been important in Wertheim. The first documented mentions of a ship's and fishermen's guild can be found as early as 1495. Down the river towards Frankfurt am Main , wine, grain and cloth in particular were shipped; however, there was already a highly developed passenger shipping system back then. On the way back, the ships were loaded with goods from Frankfurt and were treadled by horses .
The mouth of the Tauber into the Main offered itself as a natural harbor in Wertheim. In the second half of the 19th century, a winter harbor was built, which could then be used by ships when shipping traffic on the Main was idle due to the ice drift. The modern port facility on the Main near the Wertheim-Besteheid industrial area, which was created in 1945, was inaugurated in 1967. The Winterhafen was replaced by the Mainhafen in the 1960s . In 1960 there was a record handling of 20,918 tons of goods by 65 ships.
Main harbor
The Mainhafen Wertheim was completed in October 1967. The sponsors were the city of Wertheim and the then Tauberbischofsheim district , which merged in 1964 to form the Mainhafen Wertheim association. The participation ratio between the city and the district was 49:51. The 5.5 hectare port was inaugurated on October 12, 1967. The tenant at the time was WTAG (Westfälische Transport AG), which later became part of Rhenus SE & Co. KG . On August 1, 2015, the leaseholder of the Main Port Wertheim switched to ZG Raiffeisen eG. Shipping was of great importance to Wertheim even before the opening of the Main Harbor. The location on the Main and Tauber was already used for port handling in the times of the Wertheim County. The Tauber estuary presented itself as an ideal natural harbor. In addition, there was a landing stage from the Mainspitze reaching upstream until well after the Second World War, which was used for both passenger and freight traffic. After the construction of the state road with a bridge over the Tauber estuary, it became impossible to continue operating the Tauber harbor, so that the Wertheim Main Harbor was built.
envelope
Mainly handled goods are agricultural and forestry products as well as stones, earth and building materials. The port area has a 300-meter long bank with crane handling and a heavy goods handling area. The trimodal port infrastructure is suitable for handling goods by truck, rail or ship. Over the 2 km track network, the port is a freight station on the station Wertheim to the railway lines to Miltenberg (Main Valley Railway) and Lauda connected (Tauber Valley Railway).
| year | Ship handling | Warehousing and land handling | Total turnover |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | --- | --- | 221,349 t |
| 2007 | --- | --- | 210,772 t |
| 2008 | --- | --- | 245,354 t |
| 2009 | --- | --- | 194,815 t |
| 2010 | --- | --- | 121,964 t |
| 2012 | --- | --- | 158,434 t |
| 2013 | 125,521 t | 56,755 t | 182,276 t |
| 2014 | 119,813 t | 106,208 t | 227,021 tons |
| 2015 | 107,229 t | 65,729 t | 172,958 t |
| 2016 | 113,372 t | 68,779 t | 183,135 t |
| 2017 | 114,528 t | 62,420 t | 177,951 t |
| 2018 | 74,394 t | 55,394 t | 129,788 t |
| 2019 | 82,645 t | 56,080 t | 138,725 t |
Web links
- Wertheim Mainhafen on the website mainhafen-wertheim.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Claudia Wieland: Von Nachen, "Maak Columbia" and ferries . In: Archivnachrichten Nr. 40 , Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, March 2010 (PDF, 3,820 kB)
- ↑ Michael Geringhoff: The creative »Company of Elf« . In: Wertheimer Zeitung from January 7, 2013
- ↑ Shipping on the Main and Tauber - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Guido Weber: Wertheimer Zeitung 50 years ago: 1960 record year for the Tauberhafen . In: Wertheimer Zeitung from 6./7. January 2011
- ^ Wertheim Mainhafen: History . Online at www.wertheim.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ^ Main harbor Wertheim: History of the Wertheim Main harbor . Online at www.mainhafen-wertheim.de. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
- ↑ a b German Waterways and Shipping Association Rhein-Main-Donau eV: ZV Mainhafen Wertheim ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2016 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. . Online at www.schifffahrtsverein.de. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
- ^ Homepage of the Main Harbor in Wertheim
- ↑ Basic research on an inland shipping and port concept for Baden-Württemberg ( 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. (PDF, 907 kB)
- ↑ a b Wertheim Mainhafen: handling figures . Online at www.wertheim.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ^ Lines of the Westfrankenbahn. In: westfrankenbahn.de. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
