Weser barge
The Weserkahn or Bremer Kahn was and is primarily a typical light vehicle for larger ship units on the Lower Weser . It stands for sailing ships of the 19th century with different tonnages and designs. There were and are, however, other types of inland freighters, which are called Weserkahn or Weser-Maß-Kahn .
Designations
Weserkahn (sailing ship)
Weser barges were used from the 17th century, but were especially used in the 19th century to transport goods between Bremen , Vegesack and Bremerhaven . Larger Weser barges were also used in coastal shipping. The Weser barge was usually a one- or one-and-a-half-master with large leeboards between 12 and 25 meters in length. The ships were between four and seven meters wide and between one and a half and three meters deep. The largest ships had up to 120 GRT. They had a flat mirror , a conspicuously large front crack and large cargo hold openings with pointed roof-like hatch covers. Adjusted to the size of the ship, the crew consisted of only two to four people.
No original Weser barge has survived, but the Franzius , made in 1999 at Bremer Bootsbau Vegesack, is a replica with a length of 29 meters, a width of 6.5 meters and a sail area of 273 m².
Buck
The largest Weser barges of the 19th century were called bucks . They were up to 36 meters long, but only three meters wide. These barges were towed in the Weser river basin south of Bremen . Sometimes 40 to 70 people, the lienlooper ( rope runner ) pulled the boats on long lines (ropes) from the bank against the current. From Hameln horses were used as draft animals.
nach
After was the name given to a somewhat smaller type of barge on the Weser in the middle of the 19th century . These Weser barges , which were also known as the back slope and the back slope , could transport loads of up to 50 tons and were driven in the attachment of the trestles .
Cop
Another type of small barge in the Weser area was called the Bulle . This name was also used for barges to the heeling used by sailing ships, so that the area of the underwater hull has been cleaned of vegetation and maintained.
Weser-Maß-Kahn, Weser barge
The Weser-Maß-Kahn is a standardized inland vessel. The ships of the respective class may have deviations from the dimensions, because these are standard dimensions. The barges are ideally 60.50 meters long, 8.80 meters wide and carry 650 tons. The maximum permissible draft is 1.90 meters.
literature
- Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The big book of ship types . Augsburg, Weltbild Verlag (licensed edition, transpress, Berlin), 1995, ISBN 3-89350-831-7 .
- Detlev Ellmers: 200 years of ship archeology in the Weser river basin . Reprint of the German Shipping Museum Bremerhaven, 8/1985.
Web links
- Description of the Franzius , the replica of a Weser barge. accessed on January 31, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Two ship replicas are being launched: Bremer Kogge and Weserkahn . Press Office of the Bremen Senate; Retrieved February 1, 2013.
- ↑ Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The great book of ship types . Pp. 259/260.
- ^ The sailing ship Franzius . ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bremerhaven Online; Retrieved February 1, 2013.
- ↑ Maritime Lexicon ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Old German inland waterway vessel dimensions ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
