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Historic HHLA Harbour Crane (1915)

Historic HHLA Harbour Crane (1915)

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Historic HHLA Harbour Crane (1915)

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Location: Hamburg, Germany

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October 18, 2023

There is a historic revolving crane right next to the Museum of Work site.

It was built by the HHLA workshops in 1915 and was used by the building materials company Hakibau am Billhafen in the last decades before it was taken over by the museum in 1993. As the oldest object of its kind in the collection of the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation, the harbor crane is an important industrial historical testimony to the history of the former New York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Company, in whose buildings the Museum of Work is housed.

In 2002 the crane was extensively renovated for the first time and installed at its current location. In addition to the weather-related wear and tear, it has been increasingly sprayed with graffiti in recent years, meaning that the crane operator's cab and chassis had to be repainted. With the support of the neighboring Saga group of companies, the museum workshops were able to begin the renovation in March, which has now been completed. During the work, additional damage was discovered to the attachment of the crane boom, which will soon require extensive renovation and repairs.

Before the First World War, there was an unloading point at the current location of the rotating crane, where the then Gummi-Waaren Compagnie was supplied with rubber bales and coal from the port of Hamburg. In the first decades after the factory was built in 1873, the canal ended approximately at Saarlandstrasse, and the material still had to be transported from there to the factory by horse-drawn carts. By 1902, the Osterbek Canal was extended to the New York-Hamburger site, and the barges could now be unloaded directly at the factory.

Source: hamburgerwochenblatt.de/nachrichten-barmbek/barmbek/ein-stueck-industriegeschichte-in-neuem-glanz

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Historic HHLA Harbour Crane (1915)

1. Heinz Erhardt Park – Osterbek Canal loop from Lübecker Straße

2. Kuhmühlenbrücke – Bridge over the Osterbek Canal loop from Barmbek

3. View of the Außenalster – View of the Alster Steamboat loop from Barmbek

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