Bar manager
Bar supervisors were responsible for the shipping signs and other shipping tasks on the German North Sea coast.
Origin of name
A Barse was a small, mastless cargo ship, which was mainly used for the handling of goods between the small ports and the cargo ships lying in the roadstead . The owner of a bar was the bar master.
history
Probably since the middle of the 15th century the Elbe fairway to Hamburg was marked with floating sea marks. The city of Hamburg hired bar managers to maintain these buoys and to change them before and after winter. The barn warehouse was the so-called bar house .
Later bar masters were also used on other rivers. After the acquisition of the jade area in 1853, Prussia set up a bar master's shop for the jade fairway on February 5, 1855 . Their tasks extended beyond the navigation system and concerned fairway matters in general. Therefore, on April 1, 1862, the bar master's office was renamed the Jade Sea Sign and Pilot's Office , and the previous bar master was given the title of pilot commander.
Well-known bar masters were:
- Peter Petersen (called "Klappmütze"), who erected the east beacon on Neuwerk in 1635 for orientation when laying out the barrels.
- Johann Bosse, who created a nautical chart of the mouths of the Weser, Jade and Elbe in 1840 .
- Julius von Krohn (1828–1904), bar manager for jade from 1857; designated pilot commander from 1862.
Since the 20th century at the latest , the term “bar master” has not been used any more.
Web links
- Bar master at Cuxpedia (accessed on November 26, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon, Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987
- ↑ Neuwerk Ostbake. Retrieved November 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Maps of the mouths of the Weser, Jade and Elbe with parts of the North Sea by Johann Bosse, Barsenmeister 1840. (PDF; 45 kB) Retrieved on November 26, 2012 .