RegioPort OWL

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The Minden ports at the Minden waterway intersection and the RegioPort Weser development area, including the Bückeburg port of Berenbusch

The RegioPort OWL (formerly RegioPort Weser ) is a port opened in 2019 on the Mittelland Canal near Minden , which is used for container handling . It complements the port of Minden , which is increasingly reaching its capacity limits . The trimodal connection by inland waterway vessels , railways and trucks enables the diverse use of the transport capacity. The Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) region and the Ruhr area in particular should benefit from this port and increasingly relieve the seaports. The planning for the port was carried out by the planning association RegioPort Weser, to which the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Minden, the Lower Saxony city ​​of Bückeburg and the districts of Minden-Lübbecke and Schaumburg belonged. The site for the port is east of the Nienburg-Minden railway line on the Mittelland Canal. The planned area, on which the container and general cargo port is to be built, is around 14 hectares north of the canal and 17 hectares in the expanded Berenbusch port . In the affected districts of Cammer and Berenbusch, there is a citizens' initiative that is against the planning and operation of the port.

history

The increasing container traffic is pushing the old industrial port at the Minden waterway junction to its capacity limits. Increases in throughput of up to 80% require new space that the existing port cannot offer. In addition, the locks that provide access to the industrial port are only designed for the old European class of inland vessels and cannot lock the new large motor cargo ships . Therefore, from the beginning of 2000, a new port was planned in the far east of the city of Minden on the border with Lower Saxony. The aim is to adjust the capacity of the hinterland port for the connection to the seaports of Bremen , Nordenham , Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven . The container system in the industrial port in Minden has so far only been designed for ships up to a length of 85 meters.

The system is initially only planned and funded in a bimodal manner. The connections to the railway are only to be implemented later and are planned in the second expansion stage.

Planning data

A trimodality (ship, road, rail) is planned for the Weser RegioPort at canal kilometer 106 , which is to be established in several steps by 2022. The planners are initially assuming a total area at the port of 14 hectares instead of the previously planned area of ​​25 hectares.

The expansion of the Mittelweser for large motor ships has not yet taken place and appears to be questionable.

Resistance and litigation

In the neighboring community of Cammer (district of Bückeburg) a " Citizens' Initiative Container Port (Bicon)" was founded against the project. Above all, she complains about the additional burdens caused by trucks, the number of which is given by the citizens' initiative at around 400 per day. Furthermore, she criticizes the presented master plan for the wrong location.

The Higher Administrative Court (OVG) Münster declared the development plan "RegioPort Weser I" ineffective for formal reasons in a judgment of June 26, 2017. The planning association RegioPort Weser, to which the cities of Minden and Bückeburg as well as the districts of Minden-Lübbecke and Schaumburg belong, is not legally justified because the districts belonging to it have no planning competence in this matter. The approved appeal at the Federal Administrative Court was rejected on May 17, 2018 by the Federal Administrative Court of Leipzig . In addition to a private person, the city of Porta Westfalica had complained that the development plan was drawn up by the planning association, whose founding statute was objected to. However, the statutes must ensure that ultimate responsibility for land-use planning remains with the cities. The ruling had no impact on the construction work approved by the city of Minden.

The city of Minden prepared a new development plan in autumn 2018, the adjacent areas in Lower Saxony are covered by a development plan of the city of Bückeburg.

Construction stages

The RegioPort Weser in operation in January 2020
Portal crane in the RegioPort OWL

In June 2010 a master plan for RegioPort was published, which presented a comprehensive regional planning, but had no legal effects on the construction. The first construction phase concerns the construction of the quay and the transshipment area on the Mittelland Canal as well as the construction of a crane system; To compensate, numerous retention and renaturation measures are to be implemented.

At its meeting on February 28, 2013, the City Council of Minden approved the fundamental decision for the construction of the RegioPort in a roll-call vote. The original schedule with a start of construction in 2013 could not be met.

On July 25, 2015, at an association meeting of the RegioPort Weser planning association, the development plan “RegioPort Weser 1” was adopted with 14 votes to 2 and one abstention. The total area of ​​the port was reduced to 14 hectares, the ecological interventions are compensated for by a renaturation in the area of ​​the floodplain and the noise and light nuisance are reduced. The containers may not be stacked more than 15 meters high in all areas; in the northern part this is limited to 10 meters. Monitoring also takes place.

On July 3, 2017, the construction phase officially began without the usual “first groundbreaking”.

The gantry crane was erected in January 2019 . Trial operation began in April . The opening of the RegioPort took place in early July 2019. The total costs amount to 23 million euros, of which the federal government bears 16.6 million euros. At the inauguration ceremony, the port was renamed from Regio Port Weser to Region Port OWL to make it easier to locate.

operator

Logo of the operating company RegioPort GmbH

The port is operated by the company RegioPort OWL Betriebs GmbH. The operating company consists of three equal members, Mindener Hafen GmbH, Weser Container Xpress and Bode Spedition.

Web links

Commons : RegioPort Weser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Figures on minden.de , accessed on February 22, 2017
  2. ↑ Silke Kettig: A huge container port is being built near Minden. In: welt.de . August 31, 2008, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ http://www.regionalrat-detmold.nrw.de/sdnetrim/Lh0LgvGcu9To9Sm0Nl.HayIYu8Tq8Sj1Kg1HauCWqBZo5Ok6KfyIhuGWsBSq4Qp0OezKeyDWq8Sn6Rk1FavjF8Kjlussjlussjlvjrk1MavjBKjlussjlse.jljrk1MavjBKjlussjljljrk1MavjF0Kjlusjljljrk1MavjBZo5
  4. ↑ Hafenband_startet_in_die_Kundenwerbung Mindner Tageblatt of May 5th, accessed May 5th, 2011
  5. ↑ Inland navigation: land development plans for Regioport Weser are being redesigned Edition of September 14, 2018, accessed on April 1, 2019
  6. ↑ Lighthouse becomes ridiculous Mindener Tageblatt of October 18, 2011
  7. ↑ Starting shot with many question marks. In: Neue Westfälische No. 152/2017, July 4th 2017.
  8. ↑ Wirtschaftsverband Weser eV on the expansion of the Mittelweser ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2017 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. June 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weser.de
  9. ↑ http://www.mt-online.de/lokales/blickpunkt/regio_port/2401654_Rechliche_Schritte_gegen_Regionalrat.html  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mt-online.de  
  10. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of June 30, 2010, accessed in July 2010
  11. ↑ Press release of the OVG Münster ( Memento of the original of July 11, 2017 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.ovg.nrw.de
  12. ^ Dpa: Judgment: Development plan for "RegioPort Weser I" tipped . In: Westfälische Nachrichten . ( wn.de [accessed June 27, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Press release of the Federal Administrative Court No. 32/2018 of May 17, 2018: Ineffectiveness of the RegioPort Weser I development plan, accessed on May 18, 2018
  14. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: Court decision: Zoning plan for Regioplan not permitted Online edition of May 17, 2018, accessed on May 18, 2018
  15. ↑ Inland navigation: land development plans for Regioport are being revised Edition of September 14, 2018, accessed on April 1, 2019
  16. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of June 30, 2010, accessed in July 2010
  17. ↑ regioport-nein-danke.de: Large majority for Regioport Weser project worth millions, accessed on February 26, 2016
  18. ↑ Starting shot with many question marks. In: Neue Westfälische No. 152/2017, July 4th 2017.
  19. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: "Way almost free for Minden's new harbor", print edition of June 27, 2015, page 5
  20. ↑ Starting shot with many question marks. In: Neue Westfälische No. 152/2017, July 4th 2017.
  21. ↑ October news: Regioport Weser shortly before completion, accessed on April 1, 2019
  22. ↑ Milestone and bone of contention. In: Neue Westfälische July 3, 2019.
  23. ↑ RegioPort OWL opened
  24. ↑ Deutscher Verkehrszeitung: Regioport OWL is ready for use , accessed on January 27, 2020
  25. ↑ Inland Shipping Magazine 07-2019: Minden's new container port opened , accessed on January 27, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 2 ″  E