Bad Salzig customs clearance
The customs office Easier Bad Salzig in 1949 as a branch of the main customs office in Koblenz for monitoring lighterage of barges decorated with customs seal.
history
The origins of the Bad Salzig barge go back to the beginning of the 19th century. The roadstead offered anchorages for more than a hundred ships. Towing trains going uphill were divided here, as the passage through the mountain route between Sankt Goar and Bingen was only allowed with a maximum of four attachments. Ships that had loaded too much and could no longer navigate this route with its many shallows due to falling water levels, or were unable to continue for other reasons such as average , were unloaded here, that is, part of the cargo was transferred to another ship. In the early years this was done by workers from Bad Salzig, popularly known as the Salziger Murkser , later cranes and pumps were also used on tankers.
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Vessels from the Netherlands , Belgium and Switzerland and France came, had on the German border declared to customs are, as yet there was no single customs territory. To ensure that customs were paid at the destination, the transport was subject to customs regulations. For example, the skipper had to apply for the A customs document at the border customs office, after which the customs authorities checked the cargo and attached the customs seals, which could only be removed at the destination.
In the first post-war years in Bad Salzig, the lightening of the ships was supervised by local customs officers, but they were not allowed to perform any official duties. Since there was no customs clearance after the lightening, all obligations were transferred to the skipper. Because of the increasing easing of the provisions, a customs branch was set up in Bad Salzig in November 1949, which, in addition to the customs clearance, also combated the increasing smuggling of coffee, cigarettes and other goods. The area of the customs office extended over about 20 kilometers of the Rhine between Osterspai and Werlau . In October 1959, the customs branch was converted into a customs office and was now called the customs clearance office, which was headed by a customs secretary who was also responsible for tax oversight in the area from Spay to Oberwesel , on the Lower Mosel and in the Vorderhunsrück . Between 1961 and 1976, between 200 and 1400 lightings were carried out annually. The years with low water levels can be recognized very well by the number of lightening.
The end of the customs clearance office
With the expansion of the mountain route, the lightening decreased further and there was less work at the customs clearing point. Therefore, the office in Bad Salzig was closed at the beginning of 1980, but the roadstead of Bad Salzig is still used as a barge.
literature
- Contributions to the Rhine customer, issue 58 2008, pages 28–39