Basel driver
In Rhine navigation, a Basel driver was understood to be a special type of wheeled boat that was necessary to navigate the Rhine to Basel .
history
After the straightening of the Rhine by Johann Gottfried Tulla from around 1900 onwards, it was possible for large tugboats to travel continuously along the Upper Rhine to Basel (so-called Baselfahrt ), so many ferry ropes and bridges with low clearance, especially the Kehler railway bridge , had to pass from Strasbourg up the Rhine become. In contrast to conventional steamers, the newly developed Basel drivers were not only able to bend their chimneys halfway, but also lay the entire chimney flat on the deck of the ship by 90 ° using an auxiliary scaffold ("Mücke") and a special winch . In addition, the wheelhouse or wheel chair could be dismantled so that all superstructures above the wheel arch could be removed. These ships also often had smaller paddle wheels with higher speed because of the stronger currents above Strasbourg.
One of the first steamer of this type was the Johann Knipscheer XVIII of the shipping company of the same name from Ruhrort , built in 1905 by the Caesar Wollheim shipyard .
List of Basel drivers
|
Basel driver (list not complete) |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship name | Other names | Construction year | Shipyard | Shipping company | annotation |
| Amsterdam | 1923 | Shipyard Übigau , Dresden | Rhenus AG, Basel | ||
| Bern | 1923 | Piet Smit , Rotterdam | Swiss Towing Cooperative, Basel | ||
| Brest | 1924 | Piet Smit, Rotterdam | Compagnie Générale pour la Navigation du Rhin, Strasbourg | ||
| DAMCO 21 | 1922 | Caesar Wollheim shipyard , Breslau | Nederlandsche Rijnvaart Vereeniging NV, Rotterdam | ||
| Dordrecht | 1922 | Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG Mannheim | Standard Transport Maatschappij NV, Rotterdam | ||
| Franz Haniel VI | 1888 | Gutehoffnungshütte shipyard , Ruhrort | Franz Haniel & Cie. , Duisburg | Conversion to Basel driver in 1931 | |
| Franz Haniel X | 1902 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft , Rosslau | Franz Haniel & Cie., Duisburg | Conversion to Basel driver in 1931 | |
| Franz Haniel XII | United Frankfurt Shipping Companies X | 1909 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft, Rosslau | Franz Haniel & Cie., Duisburg | Conversion to Basel driver in 1930 |
| Harpen IX | CG Maier IV; Rhenania IX; Germany; Kaiser Willhelm | 1900 | Shipyard Übigau, Dresden | Harpener Bergbau AG, Dept. Shipping , Ruhrort | Conversion to Basel driver around 1930 |
| Johann Knipscheer XVIII | 1905 | Caesar Wollheim shipyard, Breslau | Johann Knipscheer, Ruhrort | ||
| Karlsruhe 25 | Rijntrans 2; Colonia III | 1923 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft, Rosslau | Fendel shipping company , Mannheim | |
| La Rochelle | Mannheim V | 1907 | Berninghaus , Duisburg | Compagnie Générale pour la Navigation du Rhin, Strasbourg | Conversion to Basel driver in 1931 |
| Lucerne | 1923 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft, Rosslau | Swiss Towing Cooperative, Basel | ||
| Mathias Stinnes 2 "Rudolf Ohmann" |
1904 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft, Rosslau | United Stinnes Rhine shipping companies , Ruhrort | Conversion to Basel driver in 1930 | |
| Mathias Stinnes 14 "Ernst Bassermann" |
Rheinstrom VII "Ernst Bassermann" | 1910 | Sachsenberg shipyard, Cologne-Deutz | United Stinnes Rhine shipping companies, Ruhrort | Conversion to Basel driver in 1930 |
| Mathias Stinnes 21 | Mathias Stinnes 18th | 1906 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft, Rosslau | United Stinnes Rhine shipping companies, Ruhrort | Conversion to Basel driver in 1930 |
| Rhenania V | Koning Alberg | 1911 | Sachsenberg shipyard, Cologne-Deutz | Rhenania Rheinschiffahrts-GmbH, Homberg | |
| Rhenania XV "Peter Küppers" |
Neptune | 1926 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft, Rosslau | Rhenania Rheinschiffahrts-GmbH, Homberg | |
| Saint Malo | de Gruyter V "Fritz Funke" | 1913 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft, Rosslau | Compagnie Générale pour la Navigation du Rhin, Strasbourg | Conversion to Basel driver in 1931 |
| Toulon | 1928/29 | Gebr. Sachsenberg-Werft, Rosslau | Compagnie Générale pour la Navigation du Rhin, Strasbourg | ||
| Utrecht | 1923 | Shipyard Übigau, Dresden | Standard Transport Maatschappij NV, Rotterdam | ||
literature
- Hans Renker steamship on the Rhine. The last wheeled boats, 1945-1967 Verlag Lautensack, Weiler bei Bingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938184-06-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baselfahrt Rheinschifffahrtsgeschichte.de