Gamla höfnin ásamt Örfirisey í Reykjavík Old ... - Competitionline
Gamla höfnin ásamt Örfirisey í Reykjavík Old ... - Competitionline
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Reykjav<strong>í</strong>kurhöfn og Batter<strong>í</strong>sbryggja frá um 1913. // Reykjav<strong>í</strong>k Harbour and Batter<strong>í</strong>sbryggja (dock) around 1913.<br />
3<br />
Lýsing verkefnisins<br />
Description of the project<br />
3.1 Yfirlit um sögu skipulagsmála og framkvæmda<br />
við <strong>höfnin</strong>a<br />
Um aldamótin 1900 var fjaran <strong>í</strong> Reykjav<strong>í</strong>k nánast óhreyfð frá<br />
þv<strong>í</strong> að Ingólfur Arnarsson renndi skipi s<strong>í</strong>nu upp <strong>í</strong> hana þúsund<br />
árum áður. Árabátum var þá rennt upp <strong>í</strong> fjöruna á sama<br />
hátt en kaupmenn höfðu þó byggt litlar trébryggjur sem<br />
lágu á fjörunni og nýttust við uppskipun með árabátum úr<br />
stærri skipum sem bundin voru við festar úti á sundum.<br />
Þessum litlu trébryggjum voru kaupmenn þegar farnir að<br />
komu upp er leið á n<strong>í</strong>tjándu öldina en allt var að mestu<br />
óbreytt hundrað árum s<strong>í</strong>ðar. Bæjaryfirvöld höfðu þó látið<br />
byggja steinbryggju <strong>í</strong> framhaldi af Pósthússtræti árið 1884<br />
sem lengi var mikið basl með þar sem sjávarstraumar og<br />
vestanaldan brutu s<strong>í</strong>fellt úr henni. Steinbryggjan var kölluð<br />
Bæjarbryggjan. Aðalbryggjan fram að þv<strong>í</strong> hafði verið Fischerbryggja,<br />
bryggja Fischers kaupmanns, við Bryggjuhúsið<br />
(Café Reykjav<strong>í</strong>k) <strong>í</strong> beinu framhaldi Aðalstrætis.<br />
Þessi uppskipunarmáti var háður veðri, sjólagi og sjávarföllum<br />
og þv<strong>í</strong> stundum ekki hægt að þjóna skipum um<br />
nokkurn t<strong>í</strong>ma.<br />
Kristján IX og föruneyti hans gekk upp Fischerbryggju við<br />
konungskomuna á þjóðhát<strong>í</strong>ðinni 1874 en þegar Friðrik VIII<br />
heimsótti landið 1907 lögðu landgöngubátar hans að Bæjarbryggjunni<br />
og var Pósthússtræti þar með orðin aðkoman<br />
að bænum frá sjó, <strong>í</strong> stað Aðalstrætis.<br />
Enn var engin höfn eða hafskipabryggja <strong>í</strong> Reykjav<strong>í</strong>k og<br />
bærinn hafði dregist aftur úr öðrum kaupsstöðum með<br />
hafnaraðstöðu. Þegar fyrsti Gullfoss sigldi til landsins 1915<br />
varð hann að leggjast að bryggju <strong>í</strong> Hafnarfirði.<br />
Árið 1902 höfðu þegar komið fram hugmyndir um mikla<br />
höfn <strong>í</strong> Skerjafirði, Port Reykjav<strong>í</strong>k in Skerjafjörður, sem mörg-<br />
3.1 Historical summary of planning and projects at<br />
the harbour<br />
Around 1900 the beach in Reykjav<strong>í</strong>k was nearly unchanged<br />
from when the first settler, Ingólfur Arnarsson, landed his<br />
ship there 1000 years before. Rowboats were then run up<br />
on the beach in the same way, but merchants had built<br />
small wooden piers on the beach that were utilized for<br />
rowboats offloading from bigger ships that were moored<br />
out in the sound. Merchants had already begun putting up<br />
these small wooden piers as early as the 19th century, but<br />
everything, for the most part, was unchanged 100 years<br />
later. Nevertheless, at the end of Pósthússtræti Street the<br />
town authorities had had a stone dock built in 1884, which<br />
was a lot of trouble for a long time since the currents of the<br />
sea and waves rolling in from the west continuously broke<br />
parts of it away. The stone dock was called The Town Dock.<br />
The main dock up to then was Fischerbryggja, owned by<br />
the merchant Fischer; it was at Bryggjuhúsid (Cafe Reykjav<strong>í</strong>k),<br />
a direct continuation of Adalstræti.<br />
This mode for unloading depended on the weather, sea<br />
conditions and tides, so it was therefore occasionally<br />
impossible to service ships for some time.<br />
In 1874 Danish King Christian IX and his entourage<br />
walked up Fischerbryggja upon arrival for the national celebration,<br />
but when King Frederic VIII visited Iceland in 1907,<br />
his landing boats tied up at The Town Dock, and<br />
Pósthússtræti thereby replaced Adalstræti as the town’s<br />
point of arrival by sea.<br />
There was still no harbour or dock for ocean vessels in<br />
Reykjavik, and the town had fallen behind other market<br />
towns with harbour facilities. When the first ship named<br />
19