City of Wehlen (ship, 1879)
City of Wehlen on the terrace bank
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The paddle steamer Stadt Wehlen is the oldest paddle steamer in the Saxon steamship. The ship was built in 1878 in the Blasewitz shipyard. It was under the name Dresden with the hull number 15 to set keel . On May 18, 1879, the ship was put into service. The construction costs of the ship, which was designed to be more efficient and luxurious than its predecessor, amounted to almost 90,000 gold marks . It was the second ship with that name. In 1926 it was named Mühlberg and in 1962 the third ship was renamed Stadt Wehlen . It has been part of the Saxon Steamship Company since 1992 and operates on the Upper Elbe .
history
The time after commissioning until 1945
After commissioning as a smooth-deck steamer , the ship was initially used for passenger transport, but also for towing. It operated for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) until 1923 . After the cessation of business operations, the ship sailed for the newly founded Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDA) in 1923 . The white painting of the ships, which was customary from 1926, earned it the name White Fleet . In 1893 the Dresden received a new three-flame tube suitcase boiler built by the Übigau shipyard of the Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, Ketten. In 1895 the wheel arches were removed at the Blasewitz shipyard and the ship was lengthened by 2.10 m behind the boiler.
During a hurricane in July 1899, the ship suffered minor damage near Lovosice .
In 1914/15 a new two-flame tube cylinder boiler was installed in Schiffswert Laubegast and the oscillating twin machine was converted into an oscillating compound machine. In the course of the renovation, the ship received electrical lighting and a steam steering engine .
In 1918 the ship was due to difficult economic conditions in the First World War launched .
In June 1926 the ship was renamed Mühlberg after the city of Mühlberg . The company's newly built saloon steamer was named Dresden .
On May 21, 1927 the medium wave broke. This was replaced by a new wave from the Krupp company in Essen.
During the Second World War , the Mühlberg, like other ships in the company, were given a camouflage finish. It was then decommissioned until 1945.
The time after 1945
The SBDA was transferred to public ownership on February 1, 1947 and was given the name VEB Elbeschiffahrt Sachsen . From 1950 to 1957 it belonged to the VEB Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagszentrale (DSU). After its dissolution, the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt und Reparaturwerft Dresden was established in 1957 and from 1967 the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt Dresden .
After renovation and repair work, the ship was used again from 1946. In 1949/50 the upper deck was built and a steam heater was installed. The wooden blades on the paddle wheel were replaced by steel blades. In addition, the wheel arches were completely renewed. Instead of the usual two-part windows, individual windows were installed. In 1957 the machine was given a general overhaul. On April 7, 1962, the name was changed to Stadt Wehlen . In 1977 there was a collision with the Pirna after a tree trunk blocked one of the ship's paddlewheels. As a result, the city of Wehlen lay across the pillars of the Augustus Bridge . In 1978, the ship had to be taken after a boiler damage from service and was in New Town harbor launched . In 1979 it was the third ship to celebrate its 100th anniversary in service here. In 1981 it was brought to the Laubegast shipyard. Here it was the first ship to receive a new boiler from VEB Dampfkesselbau Übigau . It was put back into service on April 30, 1982. The ship has been a listed building since 1991.
The time with the Saxon steamship
After German reunification, the company was transferred to Treuhand and was privatized in 1992 by being sold to the Conti shipping company in Putzbrunn near Munich. The new name was Sächsische Dampfschiffahrts-GmbH & Co. Conti Elbschiffahrts KG. On July 19, 1993, the city of Wehlen was the only ship left in regular service to be taken ashore in the Laubegaster shipyard. A historical reconstruction of the ship took place here. The modifications made in the GDR were dismantled. The hull was widened by 0.30 m and lengthened by 1.07 m. On May 1, 1994, the ship was put back into service for the steamers parade. In 2004 the ship underwent a general overhaul in the local shipyard in Roßlau . The boiler was removed and overhauled by HSI Turbinenstahlbau Dresden-Übigau GmbH . In the central nave, the hull was rebuilt.
The steam engine
The steam engine is an oscillating high-pressure two-cylinder compound steam engine with injection condensation. The machine, like the first three-flame tube suitcase boiler , comes from the Dresden steamer built in 1857 . They were built by the shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co. in Prague. The machine was a low-pressure, two-cylinder, twin-cylinder, oscillating steam engine with injection condensation. The power was 120 PSi . In 1914/15 the machine was converted to a compound machine. The power was now 180 PSi. The old boiler was replaced by a two-flame tube cylinder boiler with 10 bar steam pressure . In the same year, a steam control machine with the construction number 1455 from Dresdner Maschinenbau und Schiffswerft Uebigau AG was installed. The steam boiler installed in 1981 is a two-flame tube cylinder boiler with construction no. 15782 with 10 bar steam pressure, automatic oil firing has been available since 1994 . During the overhaul of the machine in the Roßlauer shipyard in 2012/13, damage to the low-pressure cylinder was found. This has therefore been replaced by a new cylinder.
Captains of the ship
- Carl Friedrich Böhme 1879
- Franz Rosche 1880–1885
- Friedrich August Streidt 1886–1889
- Carl Eduard Richter 1890-1891
- Gustav Eduard Hering 1892-1893
- Friedrich Ernst Kleemann 1894–1897
- Arno Julius Junghans 1898
- Max Ottomar Cave 1899–1905
- Emil Leberecht Kunze 1906–1917
- Karl Gustav Hering 1919–1920
literature
- 120 years of the “Stadt Wehlen” passenger steamer . In: Pirnaer Anzeiger 7/1999, p. 15
- Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1879 to 1884
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1885 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1920
Web links
- City of Wehlen , Sächsische Dampfschiffahrts GmbH & Co. Conti Elbschiffahrts KG
- Passenger steamer Stadt Wehlen , facebook PD Stadt Wehlen
- Passenger steamer Stadt Wehlen - data sheet
- Passenger steamer Stadt Wehlen - steam control machine
- List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company