thanks to both of you who answered. The problem turned out to be that there are more than one rows in wp_options which refer to the uploads folder: upload_path, upload_url_path and fileupload_url – I had only found one of these when I searched “upload_url” and missed the first one, which was of course pointing to the old server.
By searching “upload path” i found all three, made the correction and solved the problem.
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