Überlingen (ship, 1935)
_ex_Deutschland.jpg) The Überlingen on the swim platform from 2nd place in the Meersburg harbor
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The motor ship Überlingen was a German passenger ship that entered service on June 4, 1935 under the name Deutschland on Lake Constance .
history
The three- deck motor ship, which was modern for the time, was equipped with a Voith-Schneider drive and was mainly used from Lindau for KdF special trips. The members of the German Reichstag used the ship, among other things, for a trip to the island of Mainau . While the shell dimensions of the Deutschland were almost identical to those of the motor ships Schwaben and Karlsruhe, which were put into service in 1937 , the superstructures differed significantly: their wheelhouse stretched over almost the entire width of the sun deck and, due to the lack of the galleries running around the sides, had the effect of greater interior space the Germany bigger and more imposing. Their capacity, almost a thousand passengers, corresponded to that of an entire special train. Characteristic of all three ships mentioned was their classic, elegantly curved steamer stern , although this design was not optimal for the Voith-Schneider drive, in contrast to the straight transom stern , as in the case of the Baden , the fourth ship unit in this series from 1935 to 1937, the three winter ships and all ships built later. The last twin screw motor ship, the Allgäu , still had a cruiser stern .
As a result of the fuel shortage during the Second World War , the Germany was shut down. Like all German and Austrian ships on Lake Constance, they were given a blue-gray camouflage to protect them from air attacks. On the night of 25./26. In April 1945, the Germany was brought with other Lindau and Bregenz ships via Rorschach to Romanshorn in Switzerland and interned there. With this, these Lake Constance ships escaped destruction by SS troops. After the end of the war, the French occupation forces took over the ship, renamed it Rhin et Danube and, under their direction, used it again for special trips.
After approval by the occupying forces, it was given the name Lindau at their insistence in June 1949, and only when it was taken over by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1952 the old name was returned to Germany . From 1965 the ship was stationed in Konstanz and was mainly used on the Überlinger See . When the name became free due to the retirement of the old Überlingen and on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Überlingen, Germany received the traditional name Überlingen on May 23, 1970 . In 1993 the Überlingen was converted into a "bistro ship". At the end of the 2005 season it was taken out of service and scrapped from January to July 2006 at Österreichische Schiffswerften AG in Fußach .
The Überlingen was the Bodensee ship that had to change its name most often: four times, without taking into account the action in which strangers briefly painted over the first and the last three letters of the name. There were problems with the name even before it was launched. When finding a name in March 1934, the responsible Reichsbahndirektion Augsburg first suggested the name Adolf Hitler to the RB headquarters . The Reich Chancellery, which was asked to comment, did not consider the proposal to be opportune.
See also
- Internment of German Lake Constance ships in Switzerland in 1945
- List of passenger ships on Lake Constance
literature
- Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships. Illustrated register of ships . Uwe Welz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3 , p. 292
- Michael Berg: Motor shipping on Lake Constance under the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in the post-war period. Planning, construction and use of the White Fleet from 1920 to 1952 . regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher u. a., 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-614-6
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Footnotes
- ↑ Michael Berg (literature), page 108. The steamship Lindau was renamed "Hoyerberg" until 1952.
- ↑ Michael Berg (literature), page 97f and footnote 394f. Berg quotes a corresponding note from the RB head office: "Since the motor ships of the DR also call at Austrian and Swiss ports on Lake Constance, the intended naming of the ship could currently lead to undesirable incidents that are better avoided in the interests of foreign policy relations. "