Port of Niehl I

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Port of Niehl I
Data
UN / LOCODE DE CGN
owner city ​​Cologne
operator Ports and Freight Transport Cologne AG
opening 1925
Port type Inland port
Throughput 2.09 million t (2011)
website hgk.de
Geographic information
place Cologne-Niehl
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Port entrances to basins I-III, the heating plant in the background
Port entrances to basins I-III, the heating plant in the background
Coordinates 50 ° 58 '48 "  N , 6 ° 58' 43"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '48 "  N , 6 ° 58' 43"  E
Port of Niehl I (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Port of Niehl I
Location of the port of Niehl I

The Niehler Hafen (or Hafen Niehl I ) is one of the Cologne ports with cargo handling in Cologne-Niehl . The entrance is on the Lower Rhine at kilometer 695.8 on the left.

Basin 4a, the "KD port"
HGK container cranes

history

After the floods of December 1740, the city began building the Niehler Dam between 1741 and 1745. The city ​​council of Cologne decided on March 16, 1921 to build the Niehler Hafen. The earthworks began in May 1922, and in July 1923 over 3,000 workers were busy building the port. A substantial part of them were paid for by unemployment benefits. The first partial expansion of the Niehler Hafen was carried out by 1925, and the fore basin was given a warehouse in 1927.
During the Second World War , the port was completely destroyed by air raids. In 1948 the quay walls and some handling facilities were operational again. The pre-war status was reached again in 1957.

Today's port entrance with the Westkai and Basin 1 emerged. From 1959 Niehl I was expanded to become Cologne's largest port in terms of area; In 1977 the work was finished.

On December 19, 1929, the first catapult aircraft of the Heinkel HE 12 type ( D 1717 New York ) landed as part of the postal service of ocean liners . It was stationed on the steamer Bremen and was launched from there by means of a catapult in order to bring mail bags destined for Germany to the port of Niehl. Here the shipments were re-sorted and distributed across Germany from Cologne-Butzweilerhof Airport . The last seaplane is also said to have been stationed there by the Royal Navy after the Second World War. The Belgian armed forces in Cologne used the port of Niehl as a fuel depot and also for the Rhine flotilla.

Niehl I (1953)

port

Niehl I is operated by the Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln (HGK). The four harbor basins have a water surface of 472,700 m². The land area is 837,300 m², so that Niehl I, with a total area of ​​1.4 million m², is the largest of the Cologne ports in terms of area. 14 HGK's own crane systems and one company crane are in use. Three systems for liquid goods , two dry transshipment halls and a RoRo car loading system for the vehicles manufactured by the Ford plants round off the range.

A bridge for pedestrians and cyclists has been running across the port entrance since 1986. It connects the street Am Molenkopf with the Niehler Damm .

In the port of Niehl I, around 514,000 TEU were handled with four container crane bridges and reach stackers in 2011 . The total throughput in 2011 was around 2.1 million tons. The water-side projection is 36 meters with two crane bridges. So two ships lying next to each other can be handled.

The Lagerhauskai lies between basins 1 and 2, the Stapelkai between 2 and 3 and the Hansekai between 3 and 4.

All quays and the operations at the Molenkopf are connected to the rail network of Deutsche Bahn via the HGK freight lines.

economy

At the Westkai - in the first construction phase - the containers are handled between ship , railroad and truck . RWZ operates a large grain silo on the Lagerhauskai . CTS GmbH has been operating its container terminal on the Stapelkai since 1984 . CTS began with a storage area of ​​approx. 8,000 m² and a container bridge. In 1991 the terminal area was enlarged by 10,000 m² and the container bridge EK 17 was built. The North Sea ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp are connected by an inland waterway service that runs twice a week. The container bridges serve harbor basins 2 and 3.

At basin 3, the Neska company maintains a dry handling facility . The Hansekai is primarily the location of freight forwarders such as B. Wincanton . Basin 4a is used as a lounger for the passenger ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer (KD). KD also maintains its maintenance operations for passenger ships at basin 4a. Next to the container depot at the Molenkopf is the Cologne-Niehl branch of the silo transport company Schmidt from Heilbronn, founded in 1981 .

The central location in the Cologne chemical belt and the connection to the seaports of Antwerp and Rotterdam offer good conditions for import and export business. The Cologne branch has space for the storage of 50,000 t of packaged products as well as a modern bulk goods center with 128  silos and 27,600 m³ capacity.

The RheinEnergie operates on the peninsula at the pier head between the pelvis 4 and the Rhine, the thermal power station Niehl .

Damage Pure-Liner 2

Roof of the sunken Pure-Liner 2 at water level 515 on the day after the accident; right the sister ship Pure-Liner 1
The Pure-Liner 2 continues due to water level 286 a few days later; the Pure-Liner 1 has left its berth next to it

At the head of the port of basin 3, the company Pure-Liner maintains a berth as the main location for its event ships Pure-Liner 1 and 2 for the Rhine area; the booked ports are controlled from the port of Niehl.

At noon on December 25, 2018, the unmanned ship Pure-Liner 2 sank there within 20 minutes. "Before that, the water had penetrated the ship in such large quantities when it was 'significantly inclined'" that it could not be pumped out by the fire brigade that arrived soon after. Then the ship lay aground in the harbor basin; Depending on the level of the Rhine , most of the superstructures or just the roof protruded from the water.

On January 14, 2019, the Pure-Liner 2 was lifted by the two floating cranes HEBO-Lift 7 and HEBO-Lift 6 and then pumped out. In March 2019 the ship was towed away; in view of the damage inside, its future fate is uncertain.

Web links

Commons : Niehl I  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • hgk.de - Official website of the HGK

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Fuchs (ed.): Chronicle of the history of the city of Cologne . Volume 2. 1991, p. 197 f.
  2. ^ Post-war history of the Cologne ports
  3. ↑ Peter Fuchs (ed.): Chronicle of the history of the city of Cologne . Volume 2. 1991, p. 206.
  4. ^ Werner Müller: The seaplane ports of Cologne. Retrieved November 2, 2010 .
  5. ↑ HGK services Niehl I
  6. ↑ HGK - Niehl I
  7. ↑ RWZ port locations
  8. ↑ Welcome to the CTS Container Terminal / Timetables . CTS Container-Terminal GmbH. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  9. ↑ RWZ about location Niehl I ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rwz.de
  10. ↑ Schmidt-Heilbronn on Niehl I
  11. ↑ Two ships - two floating event locations . Pure-Liner GmbH. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
  12. ↑ Fire brigade operation - party ship sunk in the port of Niehl - diesel leaked . Cologne city indicator . December 25, 2018. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
  13. ↑ Niehler Hafen in Cologne - The sunken party ship cannot be salvaged yet . Cologne city indicator . December 27, 2018. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
  14. ↑ Free download of hydrological data . Federal waterways and shipping administration . Retrieved January 2, 2019.