Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Towing-Shipping Company
The Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Schlepp-Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft was a stock corporation founded in 1843 and dissolved in 1895, with its headquarters in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . The company operated tug shipping on the Rhine , and later also shipping with freight steamers .
history
Even before the breakthrough of the railroad, steam shipping revolutionized transportation. It was also of great importance for the movement of goods, through the introduction of tug associations, in which a paddle steam tug pulled several barges behind and moved them. The Preußisch-Rheinische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft with headquarters in Cologne had existed since 1827 , as the first of these companies operating on the Rhine .
The establishment of the Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Schlepp-Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft (Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Schlepp-Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft) went back to the initiative of the Palatinate District President Eugen von Wrede and was closely related to the takeover of the previous Mannheim Rheinschanze by the Bavarian state and the founding of the city of Ludwigshafen there in 1843. In order to promote the newly acquired, burgeoning city and to advance the industrialization of the region, Wrede strove to establish urgently needed goods transport companies. One of them was the Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Schlepp-Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft, a follow-up project in 1847 was the Palatinate Ludwig Railway , for the transport of coal from the Saar region to Ludwigshafen.
The founding meeting of the steam towing shipping company took place on April 8, 1843 in Speyer , and on June 7, the approval was given by King Ludwig I of Bavaria . In the city of Ludwigshafen named after him, he granted the company free wintering of their ships in the winter harbor as well as the inexpensive transfer of property. The most famous and most active representative of the company management was the iron and steel works owner Freiherr Carl von Gienanth , who acted as chairman of the supervisory board from 1845, supported by his deputy Ludwig Andreas Jordan from Deidesheim . His brother-in-law Franz Peter Buhl was also a shareholder. Philipp Eckenroth († 1858), who lives in Düsseldorf but is from Dirmstein (Palatinate), was appointed director in 1845 and remained so until shortly before his death. His drive was the main factor behind the company's rapid growth. In 1844 the company put the first paddle-wheel steam tug into service; it was called "Pfalzgraf" and also served the king as a cruise ship when he visited the Palatinate in June 1845. In 1854 she owned 3 tugboats ("Pfalzgraf", "Donnersberg" and "Haardt") and 10 iron barges . In 1867, the company also began to introduce steamers, which ensured faster transport of goods than tug boats. From February 1, 1868, their first freight steamboat operated as an express connection between Ludwigshafen and Rotterdam . From 1870 a second goods ship was added. According to the amended business statutes of 1872, passengers should now be transported in addition to goods. In the summer of 1871, the steamer "Donnersberg" towed the then famous floating circus of the German-American Theodore Lent to its venues on the Rhine .
The Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Schlepp-Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft worked for around 50 years with great economic success and played a decisive role in the development of Ludwigshafen. Ultimately, however, it could not withstand the growing competition from the rapidly developing railway connections and was liquidated in 1895.
In 1903 the “History of the City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein” reads: “The Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Towing-Shipping Company, the first and only large Rhine shipping company based in Ludwigshafen, deserves the credit, the first direct connection between the Dutch seaports Rotterdam and Amsterdam and the Palatinate and thereby contributed significantly to the boom in Ludwigshafen trade and traffic. "
literature
- Henning Türk: Ludwig Andreas Jordan and the Palatinate wine bourgeoisie: Bourgeois lifestyle and liberal politics in the 19th century , pp. 144–159, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, ISBN 3647368512 ; (Digital scan)
- Hugo Franz von Brachelli : Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Middle and Small States , Leipzig, 1864, p. 337; (Digital scan)
- History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , City Administration Ludwigshafen, 1903, p. 512 u. 513
Web links
- Digital scan of the company's articles of association
- Website on the history of Ludwigshafen, with a mention of the company, 1843
- Website for a steam engine supplied to the company
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Jürgen Teuteberg : Urbanization in the 19th and 20th centuries: Historical and geographical aspects , Böhlau-Verlag, 1983, p. 345, ISBN 3412005827 ; (Detail scan)
- ^ Kurt Andermann, Berthold Schnabel: Deidesheim: Contributions to the history and culture of a city in the wine country , J. Thorbecke Verlag, 1995, p. 234, ISBN 3799504184 ; (Detail scan)
- ^ History of the City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , City Administration Ludwigshafen, 1903, p. 512
- ^ Karl-Heinz Rothenberger: Palatinate History , Volume 2, p. 146, Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore , Kaiserslautern, 2001, ISBN 3927754439 ; (Detail scan)
- ↑ Frankfurter Journal , supplement to No. 193, of July 25, 1858; (Obituary notice of Philipp Eckenroth)
- ↑ Der Bayerische Volksfreund , Munich, year 1845, p. 390; (Digital scan)
- ^ Neue Münchener Zeitung , year 1854, p. 662; (Digital scan)
- ^ Hugo Franz von Brachelli : German State Studies: A Handbook of Statistics of the German Confederation and its States , Volume 1, Vienna, 1856, p. 475; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Bayerische Handelszeitung : Munich, year 1874, p. 1859; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Schwäbischer Merkur , No. 173, of July 27, 1871; (Digital scan)
- ^ Website of Theodore Lent's floating circus
- ↑ Literature on the Lent swimming circus, on the Rhine
- ^ Adam Ignaz Valentin Heunisch : Das Großherzogthum Baden, historically-geographically-statistically-topographically described , Heidelberg, 1857, p. 201; (Digital scan)