The Municipal Port in Wrocław was built between 1899 and 1904. At the time of its construction, it was the most expensive investment funded by the city in the nearly 1,000-year history of the metropolis on the Oder River. From the outset, the port’s design included an extensive railway siding, which encompassed not only the track system but also a roundhouse, a signal box, and a railway weighbridge for weighing wagons. The tracks were laid not only near the port basins but also extended to all the warehouse buildings. To streamline transport on the dead-end tracks, a system of winches was used to move wagons without locomotives. The port’s railway siding was in use until 2020, primarily for transporting coal to the nearby combined heat and power plant. Unfortunately, with the formal closure of the port, the sale of the land, and the construction of a new residential complex on the site, the siding has been gradually degrading, with its various components being dismantled. It is no longer in use.
