Börteboot
The Helgoland Börteboot (on Helgoland also Rudder ) is a boat about ten meters long and three meters wide made of solid oak with a draft of about one meter. The Börteboot weighs around eight tons. It is used for passenger transport in summer (" disembarking ") between the seaside resort ships anchored in the Helgoland roadstead and the landing stage .
During the summer season, the seaside resort ships (with the exception of the Heligoland , which now operates on the Cuxhaven route ) are not allowed to dock in the port of Helgoland. In the winter season, on the other hand, the ferry from Cuxhaven operated by the Cassen Eils shipping company , which is then the only regular ship connection to the mainland, is allowed to dock in the southern harbor. In addition, the Halunder Jet catamaran , which does not have a Helgoland gate, is allowed to moor in the harbor all year round, allowing passengers to transfer between the bathing ship and the Börteboot. Efforts to abolish the Börte obligation for seaside resorts have so far been rejected by the Heligoland, as they see the Börte as an important source of income.
The Börteboot has room for 40–50 passengers during the short journey from the seaside resort ship to the island. The boats are also used for fishing and deep-sea angling .
The construction of the Börteboote is a specialty for wooden boats - while the upper plank corridors (usually the four upper ones, counting down from the coaming ) are made of clinker construction , the underwater hull underneath is built with crawler planking . Börteboats have an internal diesel engine and are relatively powerfully motorized - they easily reach hull speed , which can be easily observed during operation.
The type of Börteboots were built from 1952, the year Heligoland was resettled after the Second World War ; the boats currently in use mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the vehicles were manufactured by the Hatecke shipyard in Freiburg / Elbe . In the winter months the shipyard carries out repair work on the boats.
The Association for the Preservation of the Heligoland Börteboote has existed since 2014 , whose aim is to preserve the Helgoland Börteboote in its current condition. The captains of the Börteboote pursued the goal of having their boats recognized as a world cultural heritage , for which they carried out publicity campaigns; u. a. Ten Börteboats drove across the North Sea, the Elbe and several canals to Berlin to raise awareness of their concerns. In December 2018, the Helgoland Dampferbörte was finally added to the register of intangible cultural heritage .
literature
- Holger Bünning: The book of the Helgoland Börte . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-933-4 .
- Egg yolk meadow: lobster, guests & sea . In: Deutsche Seeschifffahrt , issue 11/2010, p. 68, Storck-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISSN 0948-9002 .
Web links
- Börteboats in front of Heligoland
- Association for the preservation of the Helgoländer Börteboote eV
- Save the beautiful wooden boats from Heligoland! , Article in the World May 24, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Börteboote set course for the museum harbor . In: Daily port report from January 6, 2015, p. 4.
- ^ Börteboot table by Eike Holst , Rudder, Archive of Helgoland Börteboote, accessed on September 9, 2012.
- ↑ a b Grandpa's “Helgoländer” is simply indestructible , Hamburger Abendblatt from March 5, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2012.
- ↑ Helgoländer Rudder database , Rudder, archive of the Helgoländer Börteboote, accessed on September 9, 2012.
- ^ The association and its goals , Association for the Preservation of the Helgoland Börteboote, accessed on May 4, 2016.
- ↑ Börteboats from Helgoland reach Berlin. dpa report Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 3, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Nationwide register of intangible cultural heritage: Helgoländer Dampferbörte
- ↑ Börteboote now a World Heritage Site , article in focus, December 11, 2018