Walsum North Harbor

Walsum North Harbor
Data
owner	City of Duisburg
operator	STEAG
opening	1936
Port type	Inland port
Throughput	2 - 4 million t (2008)
Geographic information
place	Walsum
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
	Harbor basin from the west
Coordinates	51 ° 31 '51 " N , 6 ° 42' 46" E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '51 " N , 6 ° 42' 46" E
	Location Nordhafen Walsum

The northern port of Walsum is located in Walsum on the Lower Rhine at kilometer 793 on the right and is the northernmost port in the area of the city of Duisburg .

history

The north port was built from 1933 to 1936 as the youngest Duisburg port and works port of the Walsum colliery . Today it is the port of the Duisburg-Walsum power plant . At the end of the Second World War , the facilities were destroyed and were rebuilt by 1950.

Up until the closure of the Walsum mine in 2008, part of the coal and tailings extracted there was shipped via the port and thus across the Rhine; the turnover was two to four million tons per year. The remaining part of the coal was converted into electricity in the neighboring Duisburg-Walsum power plant .

After the mine was closed, the facilities on the southern apron of the port basin (luffing cranes, raw coal bunker, track systems) were dismantled and facilities for the delivery and interim storage of imported coal and the removal of the power plant ash were built in the course of the construction of power plant block 10.

The port was operated by RAG until the mine was closed . It has been operated by Steag since 2008 .

Infrastructure

The harbor basin is 450 meters long and 70 meters wide and at the canal-like connection to the Rhine an extension as a turning point. The quay to the south is rounded to a length of 230 m and is flood-proof. The north side is sloped at 440 m. There are two luffing cranes, various track and belt conveyor systems available to equip the port, but the port railway only opens up the power plant, not the pier. Local roads lead from the port to the federal motorway 59, which runs 2.5 km to the east .

The passenger ship does not drive the North Harbor. For recreational boating, there is a jetty suitable for small vehicles at the turning point in the port entrance.

Others

Königstraße crosses the harbor at the turning basin by means of a lift bridge ; so the port can also be approached during high tide . The bridge was built in 1934-36, blown up in March 1945 by retreating armed forces and rebuilt in 1950. It has been closed to car traffic since October 2012 due to structural defects and can only be passed by pedestrians and cyclists. Walsum also has the southern port of Walsum .

The Orsoy – Walsum car ferry crosses the Rhine directly to the south of the mouth of the port, and the Orsoy port is opposite .

To the north of the northern port, the Rheinaue Walsum extends to the right of the Rhine .

Colliery and coal mine power station (1962)
The Walsum harbor in 1962 with a coal ship, behind it the colliery and the power station
Colliery power station, units 6, 7 and 8 (1962)
Entrance, turning point and jetty for small vehicles, view from the east (2011)