Offenbach harbor

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The Offenbacher Hafeninsel to the west, in the background the Kaiserlei and in front the old Carl Ulrich Bridge; 2010

The port in Offenbach am Main is a former industrial port. The Offenbach port project provides for the urbanization of the port area.

location

Blue crane on the southern edge of the harbor basin

The Offenbacher Hafen with its distinctive harbor island is located to the west of the Offenbach city center, the west side beginning in the Kaiserlei district , between the Kaiserlei and Carl-Ulrich bridges . Construction work on the port began in 1899; the port was inaugurated on September 15, 1902. The harbor basin is 65 meters wide and 770 meters long. The port island to the north and the areas to the south on the banks of the Main are almost 30 hectares in size and were used as a port and industrially until the beginning of the 21st century.

In addition to the now dismantled port railway , the area is part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main project . On the southern edge of the dock extending Main-cycle path , the portion of the D-Route 5 is a by Saarbrücken to the Czech border extending Radfernwegs .

Immediately on the bike path is the long-disused Blue Crane ( ⊙ ), which as a relic of the former industrial port is today its landmark . The 26 m high harbor crane was converted into a walkable work of art with a nine-meter-high viewing platform in cooperation between the Rhine-Main Regional Park and the State of Hesse and opened on April 28, 2017.

Offenbach port project

planning

In the background: Mainzeile Offenbach from ABG Frankfurt Holding (2013). In the foreground: harbor stairs
Left: promenade. Right: Harbor basin towards the harbor stairs (2013)

The Offenbacher Projektentwicklungsgesellschaft , a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Offenbach Holding , is planning the future development of the port area into a new residential and office area with the city of Offenbach. Mainviertel Offenbach GmbH & Co. KG was founded for the project and property development of the Offenbacher Hafen . 61 million euros are planned for the development of the port area.

The former site of the industrial port is to be developed into a new urban district with residential, office, university, school and retail space on a total area of ​​256,000 square meters. By 2020 up to 1,000 people are to live there and 10,000 people are to work and study. Between the construction areas smaller public green spaces are planned, such as the parks Lower and Upper Molenpark . The ratio of the built-up area to the open space is around 50/50 according to the development plan. A harbor campus with a primary school, day-care center and a centrally located new building for the University of Design is planned for the southern bank area .

To further develop the port area, a road and a pedestrian bridge are under construction, which should better connect the port island with the Nordring and Nordend.

Development and construction progress

The first development work for the port area began in 2009. There were reconstruction measures at the crossing area of ​​the Carl-Ulrich-Brücke and changes in the traffic management.

There were delays in the planning approval because the commercial residents on the northern Frankfurt side of the Main feared that the new tenants and residents could assert emissions and noise protection requirements. In September 2010, an out-of-court settlement agreement negotiated, among other things, that the northern residential and commercial buildings on the harbor island will be equipped with soundproofing on the water side .

The development work continued in 2011. In particular, Hafenstrasse was expanded and the first green spaces were created.

View over the residential area

Construction of the first residential buildings began in August 2011. ABG Frankfurt Holding completed the Mainzeile Offenbach residential project by 2013 . ABG was the first investor to invest 50 million euros in the completion of 178 rental apartments. As a result, 7,020 square meters of the port area have already been built on.

The 3,200 square meter Obere Molenpark was opened in May 2012. The staircase leading to the harbor basin is the western part of the planned central harbor square and was opened in April 2013. A narrow promenade , which has also been completed , connects the harbor stairs with the Molenpark.

In July 2013, it was announced that Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Germany wants to build its new German headquarters with 210 employees on the port island. A seven-story office building was built with a usable area of ​​6,500 square meters and an investment volume of 20 million euros. Construction began in autumn 2013 and was ready for occupancy in spring 2015.

In February 2014, the first construction phase of the Hafengold residential complex north of the harbor stairs began. Around 200 condominiums are to be built in a total of nine six-story houses by 2016. The first construction phase of the Hafeninsel-Mitte project began at the beginning of 2015 . By mid-2016, 68 additional condominiums are to be built in this section.

Offenbach am Main harbor school

In May 2015, the construction of the elementary school with daycare began on the eastern property on what was then the Nordring. The basement-free structure closes off the pier to the south and acts as a noise protection against the noise pollution from traffic on the Hafenallee. The school was officially opened for the 2017/2018 school year. The four-class elementary school with two preliminary classes offers space for 420 children. A daycare center is available for 170 more, and after-school care is also offered.

The traffic development of the port island and its connection to the north end began in June 2014 with the construction work for the road bridge (roughly in the middle of the port basin) and the pedestrian and cycle path bridge (in the eastern part of the port basin). In the far east, between the newly opened December 2014, Carl-Ulrich Bridge and the harbor basin, the was also in June 2014, the construction of the port center started. This shopping and office center, planned as a striking entrance gate to the harbor district, with a separate multi-storey car park, was opened in December 2015 and is intended to radiate into the northern north end of the city of Offenbach am Main.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local route guide No. 9 of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. (PDF; 519 kB) In: krfrm.de. KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH, December 2005, accessed on November 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Blue crane as a walk-in work of art
  3. ^ Madeleine Reckmann: Offenbach port area: Investor before boarding. In: fr-online.de. September 25, 2013, accessed April 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Project description port Offenbach. ( PDF; 50 kB ) In: offenbach.de. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  5. ^ Matthias Alexander: Frankfurter Wohnbaugesellschaft: ABG interested in Offenbach harbor project. In: faz.net. July 15, 2009, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Discover the new harbor district - general plan. In: offenbach.de. Archived from the original on March 19, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Matthias Dahmer: Offenbach Harbor School: First students are taught in a provisional facility. In: op-online.de. April 30, 2015, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Quarters. In: offenbach.de. Archived from the original on March 19, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Development plan no. 563A - Offenbach harbor. From: offenbach.de , January 16, 2008, accessed April 30, 2016 (PDF; 14 MB).
  10. ↑ Fact sheet on the development work in the first phase of the Offenbach port project. (PDF; 31 kB) In: offenbach.de. Mainviertel Offenbach GmbH, March 2009, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Data and facts on the settlement agreement. (PDF; 203 kB) In: offenbach.de. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  12. ↑ The Offenbach port project continues development work in the port. In: offenbach.de. March 17, 2011, archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  13. ↑ First groundbreaking in the pioneering project “Mainzeile Offenbach”. In: ABG Frankfurt Holding. August 15, 2011, archived from the original on August 17, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Information on the Molenpark in Offenbach Harbor. (PDF PDF64 kB) In: offenbach.de. Stadtwerke Offenbach Holding, archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Port stairs opened in the heart of the new district. In: offenbach.de. April 12, 2013, archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Veronika Schade: Building materials company Saint-Gobain settles its German headquarters at the port in Offenbach. In: op-online.de . July 20, 2013, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Key data - Office building for Saint-Gobain in Offenbach harbor. (PDF; 18 kB) In: offenbach.de. Groß & Partner, archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Matthias Dahmer: First new building since 1978: Port School in Offenbach is officially opened with a celebration and words of praise. In: op-online.de. August 31, 2017, accessed September 2, 2017 .

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