Austrian Shipyards AG
The Austrian shipyards AG ( ÖSWAG ) is a shipbuilding company based in Linz on the Danube . In addition to the main location in the port area of Linz, the company has another location in Fußach in Vorarlberg . ÖSWAG employs around 100 people and has an annual turnover of around 12 million euros. Since the company was founded in 1840 until shortly before privatization in 1990, around 1,500 ships were launched at the Linz location.
history
The Linz shipyard was founded in 1840 by Ignaz Mayer . The first iron Danube freight barge was built in the year it was founded and began its maiden voyage with a cargo of 200 tons of salt to Vienna on November 12, 1840 . In 1873, while Mayer was still alive, the shipyard was already operated by the Allgemeine Österreichische Baugesellschaft in Vienna. In 1894 the workforce reached around 650 people. In 1909 the shipyard was taken over by the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino . On June 24, 1938, the shipyard was the first Upper Austrian company to be declared an armaments company and subsequently incorporated into the Hermann-Göring-Werke . In 1946 the company was nationalized .
In 1974 the Linz shipyard was merged with the Korneuburg shipyard, which had 650 employees, to form Österreichische Schiffswerften AG Linz Korneuburg and incorporated into voestalpine , which was also nationalized . From then on, exports were accelerated and orders, large and small, were carried out for countries such as the Soviet Union, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Ecuador, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Romania, Libya, Iraq, Indonesia and Lebanon.
Until 1991, business was good , mainly because of numerous orders from the USSR . But after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991, there were no orders from Eastern Europe. In the same year the Korneuburg shipyard was sold to private investors, only to be closed in 1994. The company has had its current name since then. In 1992 the ÖSWAG was privatized and sold to the Auricon Beteiligungs AG . At the same time, ÖSWAG Maschinenbau was outsourced. It still manufactures on the shipyard's premises and is regionally active in contract machine construction and assembly. Due to the poor order situation, the number of employees was reduced from 300 to around 100 in 1993. The order situation improved after the company's reorientation towards the European domestic market, so that ÖSWAG has been able to operate economically since then.
production
In Linz, ÖSWAG has a shipbuilding hall with a length of 140 m and a width of 35 m, in which ships up to 15.5 m wide can be moved from the slipway into the hall in order to carry out new, reconstruction, renovation and repair work all year round to be able to.
Be built both outdoors and indoors lake passenger ships and for river transport cargo vessels, pusher craft , patrol boats , large yachts, barges and Mähboote for algae removal.
One of the most spectacular projects of the ÖSWAG is undoubtedly the floating school built in 1993 in the Korneuburg shipyard, which is about to close, the so-called training ship for the Bertha von Suttner-Gymnasium in Vienna . Other ÖSWAG ships are the Vindobona , built in 1979, and the Boppard , built in 1996 . A 54 m long and 700 passenger ship, the Panta Rhei , was built for the Zürichsee Schifffahrtsgesellschaft until 2006, and it was transported to Zurich in individual parts for assembly.
literature
- Gerhard Salomon: Ignaz Mayer, the founder of the Linz shipyard. In: Heimatgaue. Volume 12, Linz 1931, pp. 267–271, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
Web links
- www.oeswag.at
- Bibliography about the shipyard in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salomon 1931, p. 267.
- ↑ Salomon 1931, p. 268.
- ↑ Salomon 1931, p. 270.
- ↑ Kronen Zeitung , Max Stöger, February 24, 2008, p. 49.
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 8 ″ N , 14 ° 18 ′ 40 ″ E