Überlingen (ship, 1927)
Höri , from 1964 Überlingen (1927)
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The motor ship Überlingen was put into service in 1927 under the name Höri on Lake Constance .
history
The notified to a spit in subsea Hori , later Lingen was the second twin-screw motor ship on the Bodan shipyard in Kressbronn Lake Constance from the stack ran. The design of the new building was traditionally based on the earlier half-saloon steamers on Lake Constance. It was the first medium-sized passenger ship at the ship operations center in Constance to replace the uneconomical steamers. In 1928 the sister ship Mainau was put into service. With the exception of the steering gear (Oertz), it was identical in construction. The changes in 1960/61 were also the same for both ships. Because the Mainau was not damaged during the war, despite being used as an anti-aircraft barge off Friedrichshafen, its appearance almost matched the original condition when it was decommissioned in 1965.
The Höri was in use on the Untersee in 1928 , until a new build suitable in size and design for this area of use was available as a replacement for an older steamship. For the transfer trips to and from Konstanz , mast, parts of the wheelhouse and the chimney had to be dismantled in order to pass the low Rhine bridge Konstanz . From 1930 the Höri was used exclusively on the Überlinger See . In 1944 she sank after a low-flying attack in the port of Ludwigshafen on Lake Constance . It was lifted, repaired in 1949/50 and rebuilt in 1960/61 to accommodate a larger number of passengers.
The usual four-person crew of smaller Lake Constance motor ships included, using the Höri as an example in the 1950s: a skipper , a sailor and a ship's cashier as "deck personnel", as well as a machinist .
The German Federal Railroad named the Höri after intervention from the town of Ueberlingen 1964 in Ueberlingen to because the resort town on Lake Constance since the retirement of town Ueberlingen 1963 was no longer represented by a vessel of that name. However, an older and smaller ship to bear the name did not meet with unanimous approval.
In 1969 the Überlingen was taken out of service and sold to Lindau. In 1978 the Überlingen was resold and put on land on the Old Rhine about 250 m north of the Rheineck - Gaißau border crossing on the Austrian bank. Since then it has been used as a restaurant. Most of it burned down in a fire in 1982, but was rebuilt.
literature
- Klaus von Rudloff and Claude Jeanmaire: Shipping on Lake Constance, Volume 3: Beginning of Motor Shipping , Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen AG 1987, ISBN 3-85649-072-8
- Michael Berg: Motor shipping on Lake Constance under the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in the post-war period , regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-614-6
- Walter Widmann: What do you know about Lake Constance? , Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1953
See also
- List of passenger ships on Lake Constance
- Medium-sized Lake Constance ships of the Deutsche Reichsbahn