Duisburg Inner Harbour

Duisburg Inner Harbour
Duisburg Inner Harbor around 1900
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Location
Country	Germany
Location	Duisburg
Coordinates	51°26′27″N 6°45′58″E / 51.44083°N 6.76611°E / 51.44083; 6.76611
Details
Type of harbour	Harbour
Joins	Rhine River
Statistics
Website www.duisport.de

The Innenhafen (Inner Harbour) in Duisburg, Germany, is connected to the Rhine River, encompasses an area of 89 hectares (220 acres). For over a hundred years during the high point of the Industrial Revolution, it was the central harbour and trading point of the town. Since the mid-1960s, the importance of the harbour declined and it lay in a disused condition for 20 years, before plans for renovation were drawn up. This former industrial area has been fundamentally transformed, a process which started as a part of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA) which ran from 1989 until 1999.

The basis for this model of development in the Ruhr district was delivered in 1994 by the British architect Norman Foster. Since then, the Inner Harbor has transformed itself into a district combining employment, housing, culture and water-based leisure activities. Today, the Inner Harbour is both industrial heritage and a main stop on the Route der Industriekultur.^[1]