Wiesbaden Bridge
The Wiesbaden bridge is a headland in the Wilhelmshaven Great Harbor , which was built in 1909 as a so-called coal tongue and was mainly used for military purposes until 2000. After an architectural and investor competition, construction of residential buildings started in 2019 .
History until 1955
As part of the southern expansion of the Wilhelmshaven ports , which began in 1904 , the dike between the first entrance and Mariensiel was moved forward and the western port , the intermediate port and the large port were created , so named because it allowed the largest ships to turn. At the west end of the Grand Harbor which was carbon tongue built an artificial peninsula (380 meters long and 125 meters wide) with a coaling station, bearings, tracks and magazines for the ships of the Imperial Navy . The construction work was completed in October 1909. The former bathhouse for the workers is still preserved today and is a listed building.
After the Versailles Peace Treaty had stipulated that many German warships were to be scrapped, countless scrapping operations were set up in Wilhelmshaven between 1919 and 1923. On the coal tongue it was the Jade shipyard, the Union shipyard, the Eiben shipyard, the Eveling company and a business cooperative of former naval members.
After the dismantling period, the Great Harbor was empty again and hardly any new businesses settled there due to a lack of handling facilities. Only with the establishment of the Reichsmarine and later the Kriegsmarine did the port facilities regain importance. As part of a further expansion of the port facilities in 1935 were renamed in part: From the Grand Harbor was Hipper Harbor and the carbon tongue was named in honor of the on 1 June 1916 Battle of Jutland lower light cruiser Wiesbaden for Wiesbaden bridge . The Wiesbaden Bridge initially received berths for service sailboats . Later stitch bridges and berths were for quick and minesweepers created. Due to the outbreak of war, the speedboats were no longer stationed.
The name Wiesbadenbrücke was retained after the war, the Hipper port and the other port basins were given their original names again. The roadworthy remnants of the German fleet were pulled together at the little damaged Wiesbaden Bridge and prepared for handover to the victorious powers until the 1950s .
History from 1956 to 2000
With the German rearmament and the establishment of the Federal Navy , Wilhelmshaven became a naval port again in 1956.
On June 6, 1956, the first four mine clearance boats released by the USA moored at the repaired Wiesbaden Bridge. It was followed in 1958 by the 2nd landing squadron and on July 4, 1958, the first speedboats of the 2nd speedboat squadron . Until 1964, the ships of the fleet service squadron and the new coastal minesweepers of the 4th and 6th mine sweepers were berthed here until the move to the newly built naval base in Heppenser Groden . The marina for the launches and service sailboats of the naval base command was located on the Wiesbaden Bridge from 1956 .
In 1962 the Wiesbaden bridge was significantly expanded. In addition to staff and social buildings, sanitary facilities, magazines and a boiler house, the magnetic measuring point for checking and regulating MES systems was built at the head end .
As part of an initial austerity program by the German Navy, older ships were withdrawn from the fleet and a reserve flotilla was formed with them in Wilhelmshaven. The new flotilla was set up on January 1, 1969 and was based on the Wiesbaden Bridge . For the decommissioned units, floating bridges with 600 meters of berths were moved from Cuxhaven to the Wiesbaden bridge in February 1969 . With the dissolution of Reserveflottille 31 December 1976 which took over naval arsenal , the semi-trailer and moved it to the late 1990s in the Arsenal harbor.
In addition to the units launched, the Wiesbaden Bridge was also repeatedly berth for foreign warship visits. It was particularly busy and the central venue of the Navy at the annual weekend at the Jade , most recently in 2000. The boat harbor was also given up in the same year and taken over by the sailing companions "Klaus Störtebeker".
Development from 2001
Since the magnetic measuring point (approx. 16,000 m²) is to continue to be operated, it was separated from the rest of the property in 2001. The Linde AG oxygen plant was also not up for grabs at first. The leasehold contract for 4,833 m² was not due to expire until 2040. Consequently, only the remaining area of around 30,000 m² was transferred to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) for sale. Due to an underground bunker , probable contaminated sites , the heritable building right contract and the magnetic measuring point (it is a special federal use area ), the site could not be sold initially.
The existing buildings and the swimming bridges remained unused and overgrown until the end of 2006. Parts of the Wiesbaden bridge were taken over in 2007 by the interest group for the preservation of historical vehicles (IEHF), which restored the paths, swimming bridges, green spaces and some buildings. The IEHF used the area as a berth for historical ships and as part of the weekend at the Jade and the national oldtimer commercial vehicle meeting for their events.
The Wilhelmshaven architect Rüdiger Tober presented his residential and event park project “Insulanus” in 2006. For 90 million euros , apartment houses for 750 residents, shops, restaurants, offices and a multi-purpose hall were to be built. The city administration was not very open to this project and insisted on a competition for architects and investors.
Since 2010, the city of Wilhelmshaven has expressed an interest in buying the “urban development fillet” itself from the federal government and the Wilhelmshaven housing association Spar & Bau would also be interested in partial areas. After long negotiations, the purchase was completed on January 1, 2013. The federal government's special use area and the existing rental and lease agreements are not affected.
Web links
- Wiesbaden Bridge. Spar + Bau housing association
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Gerhard Koop, Erich Mulitze: The Navy in Wilhelmshaven. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-7637-5977-8 .
- ↑ a b c d Hermann Ahner: Wilhelmshavener Chronik. Brune Druck- und Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1969.
- ↑ a b c The history of the Wiesbaden bridge. Interest group for the preservation of historic vehicles, accessed on January 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Overview plan for the ship berths - drawn up according to the status of January 1935.
- ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. October 20, 2001, p. 8.
- ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. June 5, 2010, p. 8.
- ^ Holger Raddatz: Wiesbadenbrücke underground bunker in Wilhelmshaven. Retrieved January 2, 2013 .
- ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. July 28, 2007, p. 5.
- ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. September 25, 2009, p. 3.
- ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. February 10, 2010, p. 3.
- ↑ Purchase of the Wiesbaden bridge perfect. NordseeStadt Wilhelmshaven, January 2, 2013, accessed on January 2, 2013 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 47 ″ N , 8 ° 7 ′ 9 ″ E