HARBOR AND INSTALLATIONS AT KOZLE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 29, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Poland
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Harbor and Installations at Kozle
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DATE DISTR. 29 July 1955
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1. The harbor at Kozle (then Cosel-N50.-28,.,, E18.-10) was probably built at the
beginning of the war, in 1939, at the zsarrie time as the Adolf Hitler Canal
was built, connecting Kole with Gliwice (then Gleiwitz). The harbor is
the most modern/as regards equipment,'and the best equipped port on the
Oder. It is also the last port and final loading station on the river. The
present port traffic is much smaller than it was during the war. The harbor
has remained as the Germans left it, the Poles having merely extended the
railway network.
2. The harbor is 3 km. north of Kozle on the east bank of the
Oder, The Gliwice Canal, now known as the New Canal, and formerly the Adolf
Hitler-Canal, branches off from the harbor beyond the third basin.
3. Militia arried with pistols or carbines patrol the harbor with dogs. Access
to the harbor is, however, very easy, and it is possible to gain entrance
without being-checked if the gate is not used.
4. Harbor personnel:
a. Director of Polish shiyards. Kokot (f ~)
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The harbor at Kozle consists of three basins, connected with the eastern
arm of the Oder River, which conti_:?es as the New Canal to rl_iwice. This
eastern arm is about 1,500 in. to the north of the railway bridge wh ..ch
carries the Kedzierzyn (Heydebreck) (N50-21, E18-12) - Glogowek (Oberglogau)
(N50-22, E17-52) - Kozie-Gliwice railway across the Oder.
A map sketch of the; port of Kozle is available
The following is a legend to the sketch:
1. Connecting arm for the harbor, which is also the beginning; of the canal
50 in. wide, 2 in. deep, with regulated embankment, 800 in. in length
beyond the first basin.
2. Basir;W,;. Three, built of stone, the western being the longest and the
eastern the shortest. The western one is 60 m. wide and 50 M. long,
the middle one is a few meters smaller, and the eastern one is about
half as large as the western one, which is the only one in use, The
other two are used for coaling for harbor requirements only,
network: A very dense network of lines, connecting the
harbor with the main Kozle railway line and the rain marshalling yard
at Kedzierzyn. There are about 70 tracks. There is a crane rail along
the western basin, with two portal cranes,jwith a lifting capacity of l
tons., The rail is about 8 in. gauge, and there is a railway line inside
it. Along the north side of the basin, where the embankment is about
10 m? high, there are three sets of apparatus for unloading tracks, by
which a whole truck,'can be unloaded into a barge in three or four
minutes time. During 1954, most of the trucks with Polish coal for
export were unloaded in this manner.
4, Store : On the corner near the harbor mouth. This whole peninsula is
known as "Na cieplu". There are three wooden store buildings, 15 x 25 in.
one of which belongs to the CSPLO (Chechosloovak Elbe-Oder Navigation).
Materials for ships, such as anchor cables, are stored in them. There
are also three one-storied houses for civilians in this area.
New railway lines- Built on "Na cieplu". They are used as open storage
places for iron ore.
6. Crane: For transporting materials such as parts for inside equipment
and machinery, from the new shipyard whi.a: has been built on the "Na
cieplu" peninsula. Lifting capacity ks 1,500 kg. The new shipyard is
at the end of the peninsula, about 400 in. from the mouth and 25 in. from
the bend. The shipyard building is 40 in. long and about 20 in. wide,
and contains mainly lathes and other machine tools. The shipyar6
itself forms part of the gi of shipyards at Januszkowice (Oderha:ir)
(N50-09, E1954), and Rogi (Roga.a; (N50..22, E18..07), but is only used
for installing the inside fittings and machinery when the ship has
beer.. launched. Shipbuilding is carried out at Januszkowice. The
first two steamships, the BOGUSLAW and the BOGUT N, 350 hp, went lato
operation in the fall of 1954. They are screw-driven, single-boiler,
with one vertical expansion engine built in Poznan. The ship is 30 in.
long: and 7 m. wide, and has 150-180 revolutions per minute. These
are the first steamers to be made for Polish shipping in Poland since the
war.
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Entrance to harbor: Not far from the first basin, withla gravel ro.dH
a subway under the railway line and a bridge over the old. canal which
is no longer used. In the guardroom at the entrance there .:e members of
the militia, usually two women armed with pistols,
8, Management of Polish shipping and shipyards'. In masonry buildings on both
sides of tie xbal in front of the entrance. The western building is two-
storied, 20 x 15 in.. and belongs to the management of the Kozle River
Shipyards (Kozielskie Stoczene Rzeczne). The eastern building is one-
storied, 20 x 10 in, and contains the Agency for Polish Shipping, the
Kozle post office, and the secretariat of the Polish United Workers Party
(PZPR). There is also a branch of the Polish Shipping Registration of
Gdansk office (Polski Rejestr Statkow).
9. 11=azeme nd; f'ishes Oder Branca-of. the CSPLO: In an older one-storied build.inn
between the main railway and the old canal, about 250 m. from the road to
the harbor.
10. Old Lrd: On the western bank of the Oder, opposite the mouth of the
eastern aim, in process of liquidation; the personnel and machinery are
to be transferred to the new shipyard on the "Na cieplu" peninsula.
11. CSPLO Work;shon, (Oder Branch): 200 in. along the Oder from the old shipyard,
in a masonry building 20 x 7 M.
12, ROGI ship rard., abq.t 2,000 in. down the Oder,'"from the old shipyard, inr
a bend in the river, and consisting of a group of old buildings, where
riveted parts for bridges and steel frameworks for building are mostly madem.
Barges are, repaired on old slipways on the north side of the shipyard.
13. Januszkowice shipyard: on the eastern bank of the Oder, on the south side
of a bend in the river, and consisting of a fairly large group of old
buildings,, Foundations for new buildings were being added to these in 19546
There are seven slipways, all on the north side. Ships'. hulls and smsller
parts are made at Januszkowice, but most of the work consists of repairs
to barge and steamship hulls. This shipyard employs about 200 workers, Ro7i
about 120? and Kozle about 150. Rogi shipyard works two shifts, while the
others work only one.
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