Moorburger Elbdeich 129
21079 Hamburg
Small baroque village church.
Parking spaces available, fixed seats, surrounded by cemetery.
Unadulterated nature and a backcountry rich in contrasts in the middle of Hamburg Harbour between Waltershof and Finkenwerder. The background shows a logistics centre for container transfer.
Trimet Aluminium wharfage is an independent, medium-sized enterprise. The plant was founded in 1970 under the name Reynolds Aluminium, the electrolysis facilities were opened in 1974 and metal production began. In 1975 Reynolds threatened to give up in view of massive environmental problems and (on the grounds of surety) the city founded Hamburger Aluwerke – with a 20-year fixed electricity contract up until 1995. Then production continued until 2005 at considerably higher electricity prices, the rolling mill was given off to Hydro Aluminium, and by December 2005 all the furnaces were cold. After intense negotiations with the city, the aluminium smelter and the anode factory were sold to the family enterprise Trimet / Heinz-Peter Schlüter end 2006 and the first electrolytic furnace was running again in March 2007. Under full production, the plant produces an annual 130,000 tons of liquid aluminium.The expansive outdoor facilities, the production halls, the electrolytic furnaces, the conveyor belts and the wharfage with its suction devices all provide an abundance of interesting and spectacular motifs. Trimet is very open towards shooting requests and says of itself that it readily tries to make possible what it can.
The Kattwyck bridge is the biggest bascule bridge in the world. It is 290m long and was built in 1973. The maximum height of stroke is 53m high. A specialty about the bridge was, that it had train and car traffic, but there is a second bridge next to the Kattwyck bridge to split the train and the car traffic since 2017.
In Finkenwerder Vorhafen lies the METHA treatment plant wharfage, belonging to the Hamburg Port Authority. METHA is the first major sediment-processing plant in the world to mechanically process dredged harbour sediments. It separates and drains polluted silt from sand. The sand can be used as building material while the silt is processed and either used as packing material or deposited environmentally safely. Large scale tests have been conducted in view of recycling as a building material or a natural resource substitute in the production of building materials. Conduit pipes and suction devices transport the dredged material via the wharfage to the processing plant.
