Duisburg Inner Harbour
The inner harbor in Duisburg is who has a size of 89 ha was long during the boom of the Industrial Revolution over a century the central harbor and trading center of the Ruhr city. Since the mid- 1960s, the port lost its importance and lay dormant for 20 years, before the inner harbor began a structural change. The Emscher Park International Building Exhibition (IBA ), which took place from 1989 to 1999, associated with former industrial area has changed fundamentally.
The basis for this model for the structural change in the Ruhr delivered in 1994 by British architect Lord Norman Foster. Meanwhile the inner harbor has become a place of work, housing, culture and leisure connects the water. Today, the inner harbor is an industrial monument and anchor point on the Route of Industrial Heritage.
Where is the inner harbor today, the Rhine flowed many centuries ago. He trained here until the 5th century, the border of the Roman Empire. At the site of the present Town Hall was located directly in the middle ages on the Rhine a Frankish royal court. There are also the ancient city of Duisburg Church, the Salvator Church, Duisburg Market Hall and the city wall arose.
Around the year 1000 - according to the latest research - the Rhine shifted westwards to bed. Duisburg was no longer directly on the Rhine, but was still connected for about 400 years over a navigable dead arm of the Rhine with the flow. It was then a small farming community town of the once very important commercial town. Only in the 19th century, an initiative to revive the connection to the Rhine was successful. First, the outer harbor was dug from the River Rhine to the west up to the present Marientorbrücke, then the eastern extension was built, the inner harbor. First, let the timber industry, which found its sales in the mining, down in the harbor. As their space requirements fell by more modern methods of production, the mills took with its distinctive storage buildings in many places their place. They gave the inner harbor known as the " bread basket of the Ruhr ", supplied the sharply increasing population in the area.
After the decline of the mills in the 1960s, the inner harbor had lost its economic power and housed largely only warehouse and industrial buildings. Nevertheless, this area of the Duisburg City blocked the access to the water. By exposing the city walls and the construction of a new residential area at the end of the eighties Corputiusplatz Initial steps were taken to give the inner harbor, a new face.
As part of the IBA Emscher Park, which has renewed an example of the industrial areas of the Ruhr, a conversion of the entire inner harbor was begun. The water should be brought back to the city, should be experienced and provide better quality of life - and attract investors. There was room for work - created for living, culture and leisure - especially in the service sector. The industrial and historic " landmark" of the port were allowed to get quite deliberately.
The inner harbor today
The newly designed quarters of the inner harbor different museums are located such as the art museum redesigned by Herzog & de Meuron Küppersmühle that Werhahnmühle that is used after the Exodus of the Children's Museum ATLANTIS by a Legoland Discovery Center and the Culture and City Historical Museum.
Dani Karavan put the "Garden of Remembrance", which allows the architect Zvi Hecker built the community center and the synagogue of the Jewish community Duisburg-Mülheim/Ruhr-Oberhausen.
From the garden the humpback bridge for pedestrians leads over to the marina and office complexes Five Boats and Hitachi Power Office.
More memory renovated and new buildings are as office, office and car parks, used by public institutions as well as the catering and leisure establishments.
A complete list of structural objects can be found in the tour Duisburg Inner Harbour.
Continuation of development activities
2008 should start with the establishment of the Euro Gate, a semi- elliptical multi-functional building with up to 10 floors and a total floor area of about 35,000 m², after repeating a failed to award legal problems an investor selection process. The building design by Foster follows the curve of the timber port. The works to land reclamation in the shore area have been completed.
For the West, the inner harbor, which is immediately adjacent to the Old City, Foster now has a similar conversion designed in a fresh design on behalf of the city administration as it was conducted in the eastern part - and is far from complete: Another avisiertes development area is located at the extreme eastern edge near the Küppersmühle, which also constitutes itself an object of structural expansion intentions, as the art museum as a result of the merger of the collections Grothe and Ströher has additional space. A park is also on the back of the office building on the north bank also provided. To realize bundled the ideas of the designer with respect to the inner harbor and downtown, the competence of the existing inner harbor development company now includes the management of the modernization of the entire city center.
End of 2012, the National Archives North Rhine-Westphalia with its far in Dusseldorf ( Main State Archives ) and Brühl ( Individual Archive Brühl) based parts will be located in the inner harbor. In December 2007, the Austrian architects Ortner and Ortner was awarded the contract to rebuild a Grade I listed historic warehouse built in the 1930s.
Views
Pictures
Community Center of the Jewish Community Duisburg-Mülheim/Ruhr-Oberhausen, in the garden of remembrance
A portion of the historic city walls in front of the Old Town Park at the Inner Harbor
Schwanentor: a bascule bridge; left beside the RWSG memory to be expanded and extended to the National Archives.
View at night, left H2 - Office with restoration, right Küppersmühle and Werhahnmühle.
Car park in the inner harbor at night