Vltava port

Moldauhafen, view from the Sachsenbrücke

Aerial photo (2010)

Flood protection system "Am Moldauhafen"

The Vltava port ( Czech: Vltavský přístav ) is a harbor basin built in 1887 in the port of Hamburg . In 1919 a 30,000 square meter site was leased to Czechoslovakia for 99 years on the basis of the Treaty of Versailles signed after the First World War , since the Elbe is the only navigable connection to the oceans for this inland area. A similar provision applied to the port of Szczecin . The harbor basin is surrounded by the Prager Ufer (north quay) and Melnik Ufer (south quay ).

History and Development

In 1937, 2,010 inland vessels from Czechoslovakia with a carrying capacity of over 1,500,000 tons arrived in Hamburg . The exports mainly included sugar , coal , grain , wood , glass products , iron goods , cellulose and malt . In the 1950s a barge converted into a barge was moored there for the crews of the Czechoslovak tugs and barges.

In 1993 the Czech Republic became the legal successor to Czechoslovakia. The site in the then free port was used by the Czechoslovak Elbe Shipping Company (ČSPL) until 2002. After the insolvency of the ČSPL, the use decreased, the lease agreement is valid until 2028.

With the expiry of the Versailles Treaty after the Second World War , the lease has the character of a private law contract between the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as the landowner and the Czech Republic.

future

In the coming years, the cargo port operations are to be discontinued and the Vltava port and the surrounding area as part of the new Grasbrook district are to be redesigned into a residential area with mixed residential and commercial use.

Web links

Commons : Vltava port  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Versailles Treaty, Article 363
• Hamburg calls for better use of the Czech port area
• Olympia: secret talks about the Czech port
• Pictures of the Vltava port
• Newspaper article about the port of the Moldau in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

literature

• Czech territory in the port of Hamburg . In: Daily port report of March 4, 2014, p. 4, ISSN  2190-8753

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elbe shipping . In: Die Zeit , No. 17/1946
2. ^ Culture ship from Prague . In: Die Zeit , No. 3/1955
3. ↑ Miriam Rasched: The Elbe in international and community law . ISBN 3-8258-6779-X , p. 101
4. ↑ NDR: Hamburg is getting a new district on Grasbrook. Retrieved July 28, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 44 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 54 ″  E