Port of Mainz

The customs - and inland harbor of Mainz was one of four Mainzer ports, which are divided into three port operations: customs and inland port ( Ingelheim Aue ), Rhine harbor (Mainz -Weisenau ) and industrial port ( Mombach ), as well as the leisure area winter harbor. The commercial harbor area extended between Rhine km 499.100 to 503.701.

History

Roman time

There was the Roman naval base and a center for merchants with warehouses and storage at the site. The area is known as " Dimesser place " known ( to St. Theo Nest). It is believed that the first Christians were staying in the Roman Mogontiacum here.

19th century

Mainz Wine merchant Heinrich of Mappes sat down personally against Napoleon Bonaparte for the restoration of the Mainz free port and the establishment of a customs warehouse at the Electoral Palace a. Therefore, the Mainz city planners Eustache de Saint -Far left 1809 ablate the Martinsburg in favor of the bridge and port construction. This was one of the infrastructure measures for the canton of Mainz. From the stones recovered from the demolition the Schiffswinterung was built directly at the customs office at the former Electoral Palace.

1804 began with the Rhine Navigation Convention regulating the main water thoroughfare Europe. Agreement was reached on a consistent width of the river of 500 meters. 1815 called for the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna, the freedom of navigation for international waters and for the Rhine, the establishment of a commission. This Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine first met in 1816 in Mainz. On March 31, 1831 agreed to the Act of Mainz. In 1861 the Commission was transferred to Mannheim. On October 17, 1868, the Convention of Mannheim in Baden, Bavaria, France, Hesse, the Netherlands and Prussia was signed, valid in its principles to this day.

The customs - and inland harbor emerged in the course of this regulation of the Rhine with extensive Uferaufschüttungen according to the plans of city architect Eduard Kreyssig between 1880 and 1887. These came off the Electoral Palace, which had to serve in part as a storehouse of the adjacent free port until 1886. The railway tracks guaranteed to connect to the railway network. The port facilities and Niederlagsräume north of the city were produced at a cost of 5 million marks in 1887 to traffic.

Today's industrial port was created from 1882 to 1887 as a raft harbor, by the arm of the Rhine was filled to Ingelheimer Aue partly to upstream to create the pool for Mainz customs and inland port. In the year 1885 7887 ships ( including 3930 steam ships) and 1032 rafts with 181 276 tons of cargo arrived at Mainz. The timber floating was an important industry at that time.

Another port, then the Hessian Ludwig Railway belonging, is across from Mainz, was built at the mouth of the Main Gustav castle.

Trading in the early days was particularly lively in relation to books and music, grain, flour, oil, wine and industrial products.

In the center background the town hall and the Mainzer Dom ( right) ( 1900)

(1901 )

(1902 )

20th century

After the Second World War, reduced the northern harbor of the port industry by being filled with war debris.

Mid-80s lost the general cargo and bulk cargo in importance compared to the container terminal, which is largely Rhine other.

The still partially recognizable quay walls made ​​of basalt lava and located on the southern edge of the dock stairs have been preserved from the time it was built. Likewise today, the former engine and boiler house (today Kunsthalle Mainz ) and the wine storage building on the South Jetty available.

21st Century

In 2011, the port operators had an area of ​​30 ha, 2006, the customs and inland port an envelope of 1.43 million tonnes. He was hit by 1,381 ships. In the container throughput of the ten major ports of inland navigation Ranking Mainz was with 112 964 TEU in fifth place of the busiest inland ports in Germany.

The container throughput was down the Rhine moved to the Ingelheimer floodplain. The relocation of the last container was held in 2011. The attractive harbor area to be developed into residential area. In the engine and boiler house at the harbor - built in 1887 - the urban art gallery in 2008 confiscated. The historic wine warehouse on the South Jetty has since been completely renovated and converted into modern office space. The development of further sections of the Customs port to begin in 2013.

Importance

In the Mainz ports container, sand, gravel and grain are handled focus. This must be added the handling of products of the petroleum industry.

The tax and customs regulations at that time required the separation of the port area by means of an iron lattice fence from the rest of the city. Only then the Warenan and can outlet was controlled.

Building

As impressive harbor building was built in 1894 on the areas located on the southern headland between the two staircases, the five-story warehouse of the Tax Office. It was canceled in 1968. Currently the tallest building in the historic wine warehouse at the port, the garden was rebuilt after coring in 2011 and since May 2012, including the seat of the federal office of the Association of German predicate and quality wineries.

Equipment and handling facilities

  • Gantry cranes with a lifting capacity up to 40 t ( 5x)
  • Fighting equipment for petroleum products ( 2x)
  • Pneumatic systems for grains and oilseeds ( 2x)

Infrastructure

With the port railway and over the Rhine Allee, with connection via Mombach to the highways on the A 643, the port operators are good and cost associated with the main sales and procurement markets at home and abroad and make an important contribution to decongest roads in long-distance haulage.

In a nationwide comparison of the Mainz is container port in terms of total traffic volume in the top 10 of a total of 100 inland ports in Germany. The operator of the port is the Stadtwerke Mainz AG, Division harbor.

With the extension of the port railway separation of the bike course for Kaiser Bridge is gone hand in hand. Cyclists coming from Mombach must first pass under the railway triangle and pull out a about the end of Ingelheimer Aue to the crossing of the Rhine Allee by the port rail, and then go back over the remains of the Gassneralle to the bridge.

New Container Terminal

Due to the economic structural change, the surfaces of the Mainz customs and inland port were up for grabs. The old port area is planned for urban development as a new part of the Mainz -Neustadt. In its place, a new district with culture clasp Kunsthalle Mainz is emerging as event location and Marina at the old boiler house.

With the completion of the new, more efficient container terminals in the amount of Rhine kilometer 501 on the Ingelheimer floodplain north of the bridge in the spring of 2011, the Emperor, close to downtown port of entry was abandoned. The creation of a sufficient potential area for the new container terminal has been agreed between the operating company Frankenbach and Stadtwerke Mainz AG as property owners to create a system whose area has a long-term extension options. At a length of about 522 m at the shore zone, a new Rhine harbor was built. This is suitable through the parallel port rail excellent for a new quay and thus offers optimal conditions for a trimodal handling facility for intermodal transport.

The usable area of ​​present-day area is approximately 80,000 m² which are suitable for storage of 10300 TEUs. Four river -side container cranes and a landside container bridge enable the transshipment of 454 400 TEU p. In addition to a train movements about 700 truck movements per day are provided. For the handling of refrigerated containers are available after commissioning 36 solid cooling connections are available, whose capacity can be doubled.

The new port on the port railway has subsidized with € 9 million the state of Rhineland -Palatinate. The remaining costs of € 21 million share of the operator Frankenbach (75%) in collaboration with the group of companies Stadtwerke Mainz AG ( 25%) than landowners.

The port - to-port transport times to the port of Rotterdam to be 24 h and 60 h downhill uphill from Rotterdam.

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