Rhine port of Koblenz
| Rhine port of Koblenz | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE KOB | ||
| owner | City of Koblenz | ||
| operator | Stadtwerke Koblenz GmbH | ||
| opening | Antiquity | ||
| Port type | Port and lands | ||
| Throughput | 1.2 million tons (2009) | ||
| website | Koblenz harbor | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Koblenz | ||
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 23 '35 " N , 7 ° 35' 35" E | ||
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The Rheinhafen Koblenz is an inland port on the Rhine in Koblenz . The port, located between the districts of Kesselheim and Wallersheim , is located in the north of the city in an industrial area and is owned by the Koblenz municipal utilities . With a cargo handling of 1.2 million tons (2009) it is the third largest port on the Middle Rhine after the Rhine ports of Andernach and Bendorf .
Description of the port
The flood-free Rhine port of Koblenz is on the left bank of the Rhine at Rhine kilometer 596.6. The port basin has a size of 7.3 hectares (730 × 100 meters), the port entrance is 50 meters wide. The port has a trimodal container terminal with one of the largest container gantries on the Rhine. It has a total throughput of over one million tons per year, with approx. 43,400 container movements (2003). The container bridge, which was built in 1999, has a cantilever of 37 meters and a load capacity of up to 52 tons and can load and unload the largest ships on the Rhine. At the same time, a second adjacent ship can be served. There are also two dock levellers for bulk and general cargo, two slewing cranes and two container forklifts . The handling area for containers is around 17,000 square meters. In addition to containers, aluminum , glass , stones , sand , gravel , wood and scrap are also handled here. The trimondal transshipment enables goods to be loaded from the water to rail and road. It is connected to the left-hand Rhine route via the “Rheinschlussbahn” .
history
The Rhine was an important trade route between the North Sea and the Mediterranean as early as the Bronze Age , Hallstatt Age and Latène Age . A first port was built around the turn of the Roman era at the mouth of the Moselle near the Confluentes fort . It was also of strategic importance for the Roman Rhine fleet . After the fall of the Roman Empire, navigation on the Rhine was maintained through all times. It was rowed, sailed, punted , towed and also by the end of the 19th century rafting operated.
A fortified Rhine crane for loading and unloading ships was erected in today's Rhine facilities in the 17th century. With the opening of the Mosel shipyard, however, it lost its importance and was used as a gauge house. A free port existed near the Rheinkavalier from 1837 to 1898.
Mosel shipyard
The Moselle shipyard arose after the softening of the city of Koblenz in 1890 under Mayor Emil Schüller along the Mosel front . The port facilities with customs port consisted of a crane, warehouses (built in 1911/1912) and the Werftbahn, a railway connection to the Moselle station built by Friedrich Albert Carl Spaeter . In addition, there was a port in the Rauental , which mainly served the local oil tank farm and was abandoned in 1999.
During the air raids on Koblenz in 1944/1945, the Mosel shipyard was badly devastated, but was rebuilt after the end of the war. The handling of goods in the port increased sharply in the 1960s. Since further expansion was not possible at this point, the old town of Koblenz including the banks of the Moselle should also be restructured, the port was abandoned in 1969. The new Moseluferstraße was opened to traffic on May 25, 1973 and renamed Peter-Altmeier -Ufer after the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate .
Rhine port
A new port in Wallersheim was planned as early as the 1920s. But it was not until 1957 that the city placed an order for the planning of the 250 hectare port, which was then decided by the city council in 1960. The construction time of the 38 million DM building project lasted from 1961 to 1965. The opening of the new Rhine port in the north of Koblenz took place on January 25, 1965.
Passenger and pleasure boating
Passenger shipping in Koblenz is handled in the Ehrenbreitstein district and at the Deutsches Eck am Rhein. The dock for the Koblenz Rhine ferry is also located there at Rhine kilometer 592 . There is a facility on the Rheinlache at km 590 for recreational shipping
There are berths for larger passenger ships, especially those for river cruises, on the banks of the Moselle in Koblenz. This led to complaints from residents, as these ships left their engines running overnight due to a lack of shore power, which led to considerable noise and exhaust emissions. Although such a power supply has now been set up and its use is prescribed, problems continue to arise due to delivery and disposal as well as buses to transport passengers, which led to the demand for a redesign of the bank area.
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Economy, Rheinhafen Koblenz
- ^ Port of Koblenz, data
- ↑ Passenger shipping in Koblenz
- ↑ Rhine ferry Ehrenbreitstein and others
- ↑ Rheinlache Yacht Club
- ↑ https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/aus-den-lokalredaktion/koblenz-und-region_artikel,-was-hilft-gegen-laerm-rund-um-die-kreuzfahrtschiffe-muss-das-moselufer- to be rescheduled-arid, 1931587.html