The Andechs was a paddle steamer on the Ammersee , which in the summer ran liner service between the places on the lake until it was decommissioned . She was the structurally identical sister ship of the Diessen still in service . Today it serves the Bavarian Sailing Association eV as a floating clubhouse.
The ship has a total length of 34 meters and a width of 9.4 meters. It was approved for 400 passengers. It was driven by a steam engine with 230 HP that worked on two side paddle wheels.
history
The Royal Bavarian paddle steamer, manufactured in parts by the JA Maffei company in Munich, was assembled in the Stegen shipyard on Lake Ammersee and named after the famous Andechs monastery . The launch took place on July 25th, 1907. In 1920 the Reichsbahndirektion took over the operation of the state shipping and passenger traffic on the Ammersee. Family tours were popular excursion destinations.
During the Second World War , the ships also sailed in winter. In some cases, they were the only connection between the west and east banks. In April 1945, the Andechs had to be relocated to Holzhausen on the Dampfersteg to avoid bombing. There, after the end of the war, the occupation soldiers demolished the steamer so that it went aground. In September 1945, the leaky Andechs was towed by her sister ship Diessen to Stegen in her home port.
On May 12, 1946, shipping was released for civil traffic. The Ministry of Transport and Economics was responsible for the urgently needed public transport. Road traffic had not yet become important. As time went on, safety regulations became stricter. Since a new boiler, which had become necessary, was too expensive and there were fewer and fewer heaters to dig up to 1.5 tons of coal a day , the steamer was shut down by the TÜV in 1955 . It was bought by the Bayrische Seglervereinigung eV, which was then looking for a new location, and so saved from being scrapped. The purchase contract is dated April 13, 1956, and the purchase price was DM 8,000 . The company Südmetall Stuttgart acquired the steam engine at a scrapping price of DM 3,000. The Sports Department of the Ministry of the Interior granted a grant of DM 5,000 for the purchase. On March 13, 1956, the palace and lake administration in Munich approved a permanent berth in Utting in front of the "Hexenhäusl". Since then, the Andechs has been used as a club house and port by the BSV. It is overhauled every ten years in the dry dock of the Stegen shipyard in order to preserve the floating monument.
