Landskrone Rhine ferry
_und_Hessen-_Rheinf%C3%A4hre_Landskrone_22.5.2011.JPG) The land crown on the Rhine near Nierstein in Rhineland-Palatinate on the way to Kornsand in Hesse
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The Rheinfähre Landskrone is next to the Rhine ferry Gernsheim the only way between the two Rhineland-Palatinate cities Mainz ( way Auerbrucke ) and Worms ( Nibelungen Bridge ) with the car over the Rhine to reach.
The Rhine ferry is located at Rhine kilometer 480.65 and connects the two cities of Nierstein and Oppenheim on the left bank of the Rhine Hesse with the Hessian Kornsand , today part of Trebur, on the right bank of the Rhine . At this point, the Rhine is up to 300 m wide, depending on the water level.
On the Niersteiner side, the landing point is right next to federal highway 9 , between the Louis Guntrum winery and Sironabad . The Nierstein-Oppenheim fire station is also within sight of the ferry. If you want to continue in the direction of Wörrstatt, you can use the federal road 420 , which joins the B9 in Nierstein (underpass). Trucks must use the level crossing directly behind the Guntrum winery. The only connection on the Hessian side is the L 3094, which leads to Geinsheim .
Ferry service
The ferry service takes place all year round. Normally a ferry crosses the Rhine according to a fixed timetable. The times given are guidelines. No liability is accepted for delays or a possible cancellation of the journey. If necessary or when the ferry service requires it, intermediate trips are carried out. In special cases, such as the closure of the Schiersteiner Bridge and the Weisenau Bridge, the replacement ferry can also be used in two-ferry operation. However, this requires a higher level of staff and requires lead time. The basic requirement for a ferry operation with two ferries is a sufficiently high water level in the Rhine so that the ferries do not get in each other's way and have enough space to maneuver.
The ferry service is discontinued if the translation is associated with danger. There is a particular danger when the water level, ice or storm make it no longer seem possible to cross over safely.
Flood : Whether the ferry service is stopped during high water depends, among other things, on whether the L 3094 to Geinsheim is closed and whether the ferry can still be safely entered and exited. An extremely large amount of floating debris in the Rhine, which can damage the drives, leads to the ferry service being stopped in the dark.
Low water : In contrast, low water does not necessarily mean that the ferry service is stopped. Even with the record low water in 2018, the ferry operator was able to secure the ferry operation by means of complex and expensive dredging work at the ferry station on the Kornsand. Dredging work that the private ferry operator has to pay for itself.
The difficulties on the grain sand are due to the location of the ferry ramp in an inner curve of the Rhine, at the "Goldgrundhafenbank".
When the current is weak and the water level is low, the Rhine deposits tons of gravel here. The "large Goldgrund", which lies on the right bank of the Rhine, between Rhine kilometers 481.5 and 483.5, prevents the dammed gravel from flowing away. This creates a gravel landfall of almost a third of the width of the Rhine. So that inland shipping does not run into this gravel bank, a red fairway buoy is located a little below the ferry on the right edge of the 120 m wide fairway.
At times, the maximum permissible total weight of a vehicle / the heaviest vehicle had to be reduced to 3.5 tons. Heavier trucks could no longer be taken and had to find their way via Mainz and Worms. By further limiting the load capacity from 21 cars to in some cases only 15 cars, at least a limited transfer traffic for cars could be maintained at the lowest level of the Worms level of 2 cm even with the record low water level in 2018.
The “Rheinfähre Landskrone GmbH” has two ferries, the “Landskrone” and the originally identical “Landskrone 2”. The "Landskrone 2" is the former ferry "Stadt Gernsheim", which was replaced in December 2015 by the new Rhine ferry "Helene" from the Gernsheimer Rheinfährbetriebe. The former replacement ferry, the smaller “Kornsand” ferry (which had been in service since 2004 and could hold 18 cars and 250 people), was sold at the end of March 2018. It is now known as the “St. Michael ”is based in Niederheimbach-Lorch (Rhine KM 539).
technology
The "Landskrone" and the "Landskrone 2" were built in 1965/1966 at the shipyard "Hans Boost" in Trier for the water and shipping directorate in Mainz. In addition to the “Landskrone 2” there was another identical ferry which is better known as the emergency ferry “SF III Bingerbrück” or as the measuring and direction finding ship “Bingerbrück”. She was bought by the Lux shipyard and built back to the ferry. Since 2015 she has been doing her ferry service as "Christophorus" at the ferry stations Niederkassel - Bad Godesberg (Rhein-KM 647) and Mondorf - Graurheindorf (Rhein-KM 659).
The "Landskrone" and "Landskrone 2" are 45 m (over flaps) long and 11.10 m wide. The maximum draft is 0.80 m, they can transport up to 140 tons, 300 people can be crossed per trip. Ideally, 21 cars (7 cars per lane) fit on the three lanes of the ferry. Heavy or tall trucks must be positioned in the middle lane. The permissible total weight of the heaviest land vehicle must not exceed 50 tons.
The ferries are driven by four Schottel rudder propellers , which can be rotated 360 degrees, thus enabling the ferry to turn on the spot. The necessary drive power is provided by four air-cooled Deutz diesel engines (each with 105 hp) for the “Landskrone”, while the “Landskrone 2” has 4 water-cooled Caterpillar diesels (each with 85 hp). Both ferries have 14 transverse and 4 longitudinal bulkheads. They have radar (Swiss Radar JFS364C) and ship safety radio.
In a feasibility study in 2000, WGZ Bank recommended the construction of a bridge over the Rhine in order to significantly shorten commuter travel times between the right and left bank of the Rhine.
Web links
- Website of the Landskrone Rhine ferry
- Ferry "Landskrone" in the inland navigation forum
- Ferry "Landskrone 2" in the inland navigation forum
- Ferry "Kornsand" in the inland navigation forum
- Ferry “St. Michael ”in the inland navigation forum
- Ferry "Christophorus" in the inland navigation forum
Individual evidence
- ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Nierstein: Across the Rhine - but where and how? - General newspaper. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Fährbetriebsverordnung - FäV § 12 Use of the ferry and cessation of ferry traffic Fährbetriebsverordnung - FäV
- ↑ Operation of the Rhine ferry between Nierstein and Trebur has to be temporarily suspended due to low water in "Allgemeine Zeitung", online edition of September 11, 2015, accessed on June 19, 2016
- ^ The Rhine in pictures from the air - Police Hessen - Hessen.de
- ^ RHEIN-RADAR-ATLAS by Rolf Karmineke
- ↑ Width of the fairway and depths of the Rhine
- ↑ ELWIS - water levels at levels relevant to shipping. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Ferry "Kornsand" in the inland navigation forum
- ↑ Ferry “St. Michael ”in the inland navigation forum
- ↑ Ferry "Christophorus" in the inland navigation forum
- ↑ Rhine bridge between Mainz and Worms is realizable , journal-lokal.de, accessed on February 16, 1019
Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 54 ″ N , 8 ° 21 ′ 8 ″ E