Bavarian maritime shipping

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Bavarian maritime shipping

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legal form GmbH
founding January 1, 1997 (successor)
Seat Schönau am Königssee ( Berchtesgadener Land district )
management Michael Grießer (Managing Director)
Number of employees 170
sales 10 million euros
Branch Passenger shipping
Website www.seenschifffahrt.de

The Bavarian Lakes shipping operates cruise on the four Bavarian lakes Koenigssee , Lake Starnberg , Ammersee and Tegernsee .

history

Shipping to Königssee

Boat on the Königssee (around 1900)

Until motor navigation began on the lake, rowing boats were the only means of transport.

The construction of the now defunct railway connection from Berchtesgaden to Schönau am Königssee , district of Königssee , which was completed on May 29, 1909, suggested an increase in the number of visitors to the Königsee due to the improved transport connections. The time to decide about the introduction of motor shipping was pressing.

With the consent of Prince Regent Luitpold , the Obersthofmeisterstab ordered four boats in January 1909, namely an electric boat and two petroleum-fired steam engine boats and a small electric boat exclusively for court service purposes.

Motor shipping on the Königssee was finally opened on July 15, 1909 with the electric motor boat Accumulator supplied by Siemens-Schuckert . It held 38 people, was 12 m long and 2.15 m wide. The hull and cabin were made of mahogany wood . The engine output was around 15 hp. The required energy was supplied by a lead-acid battery , which enabled an operating range of around 100 km at a speed of 10 km / h. A few days after the Accumulator was put into service , the two steam engine boats Tristan and Isolde for 18 people each, 8.50 m long and 1.75 m wide, were launched. The electric motor boat Gemse , which was equipped for court service purposes , was added a little later and was intended for 20 people. Although it was initially intended for yard service purposes, this boat was soon also used for passenger transport. The motorboat era finally began at Königssee, and travel times across the lake have been more than halved. The opening of motor shipping on the Königssee brought a general boom in tourism . More electric motor boats were purchased. These had soon established themselves on the Königssee because of their quiet gliding, their absence of exhaust gases and their low operating costs. The inexpensive power supply with nightly charging of the batteries was made possible by the construction of the "Königssee Railway".

Since April 1, 1934, the Bavarian state has operated shipping on the Königssee independently.

Lake Starnberg shipping

Lake Starnberg also became popular with the nobility very early on . It was closest to the capital and royal seat of Munich and could be reached quickly and easily via Alte Poststrasse. As early as 1550, Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria had a "frigate" built by carpenters from Starnberg. After all, it was Elector Ferdinand Maria who had a fleet built with the highest luxury in the 17th century. The magnificent ship Bucentaur cost no less than 18,269 guilders . It had a capacity of 500 people, was moved by 110 rowers, but also had sails. During the sea and hunting festivals it was surrounded by up to 34 escort ships (including a kitchen ship, for example). It originally followed the model of the Venetian Bucentaur , Italian bucintoro (golden barque), the representative ship of state of the Doges of Venice . In 1758, Elector Max II decided to demolish the Bucentaur because of the high repair costs .

The age of steam shipping began on Lake Starnberg in 1851. In the presence of King Max II , the first paddle steamer Maximilian was launched in Starnberg , financed by the royal building officer Ulrich Himbsel . In 1864 the shipping company was sold to a stock corporation and taken over by the Bavarian state on January 1, 1915. As on the Ammersee, shipping was initially operated by the Royal Bavarian State Railways or their legal successors, Reichsbahn / Deutsche Bundesbahn, and from 1959 by the Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes .

Starnberg 1925: The Starnberg ex Wittelsbach passes the wave pool.

The first steamship, the Maximilian , sailed on the lake from 1851 to 1886 and was then traded in by JA Maffei and brought to the Ammersee. A second steamship had been on the lake since 1878, the Bavaria , which existed until 1940. The Wittelsbach was built as a replacement for the Maximilian and was in service from August 20, 1886, renamed Starnberg in 1919 and scrapped in 1950. The Wittelsbach , prefabricated by Maffei in Munich and finally assembled and equipped under construction number 28 in the Starnberg shipyard, was 53.36 m long and could carry 1,150 people.

The fourth steamer on the lake was the Luitpold . This ship was put into service in 1890 and later sailed under the name Munich . In 1954 it was scrapped.

Ammersee shipping

Paddle wheel ship Diessen of Schifffahrt Ammersee (before the general overhaul 2005/06)

In 1878 a stock corporation was founded on Lake Ammersee , which had a new ship built in Zurich for 150 passengers. In 1880 Reichsrat von Maffei took over the majority of shares in the "Aktiendampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft Ammersee". Since there was no rail connection between Munich or Augsburg and the Ammersee, a feeder service from Stegen (today's home port of the Ammersee fleet) to Grafrath with the river steamer Maria Theresia was finally set up in the same year on the Amper river north of the Ammersee . In 1906, the Bavarian State acquired shipping on the Ammersee with its facilities, equipment and ships for 110,000 guilders and placed them under the control of the Royal Bavarian State Railways , later the Reichsbahn and the German Federal Railroad . In 1959, the management of the company was transferred from the Deutsche Bundesbahn to the Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes .

Tegernsee shipping

The Kreuth on the Tegernsee with the Blauberge in the background

In 1894, Prince Regent Luitpold allowed a fisherman to operate a motorboat for the first time . Up until the Second World War , five motor boats were available on the Tegernsee. During the Second World War, three private companies formed an emergency community in order to be able to maintain shipping on the Tegernsee. As a result of the fuel shortage, shipping experienced a decline. The Bavarian state intervened in this misery and in 1944 branched off two electric boats from Königssee for the Tegernsee. For shipping, which is slowly normalizing, the state hired the passenger ships from the Höß company and the municipality. The two Königssee boats returned to the Königssee in 1951. Between 1951 and 1954, all of the rented ships were purchased by the Free State of Bavaria. The management of the shipping on the Tegernsee was carried out by the Bavarian administration of the state palaces, gardens and lakes . On January 1, 1984, the four shipping companies as State Seenschifffahrt, one were directed operation of the Free State of Bavaria, merged. The privatization took place on January 1, 1997.

Companies

The Bayerische Seenschifffahrt GmbH on 1 January 1997 the transfer of the State Lakes shipping , emerged (conventional spelling with two "f"), which went back to the started in the 19th century on the four lakes shipping company into a private legal form. The Free State of Bavaria owns 100 percent of the shares in the GmbH . The company is based in Schönau am Königssee in Upper Bavaria (Seestraße 55, Königssee district). With a fleet of 34 motor vessels, around 1.2 million passengers a year and around 170 employees, it is one of the largest inland shipping companies in Germany.

Shipping to Königssee

A bay electric boat. Lake shipping on the Königssee for approx. 80 passengers

Current fleet

Surname Construction year length width people Others
Large electric passenger ship 20 m 3.50 93 17 identical ships
EMB Ramsau 1992 9.50 m 2.40 25th

The ships were built and overhauled in our own shipyard in Schönau - the highest and southernmost shipyard in Germany. There is also a smaller electric passenger ship with a length of 9.50 m for 25 people, which is the masterpiece of the boat builder. While the boat hulls were made of wood until 1998, the last three new buildings (1998, EMB Bischofswiesen , 2003, EMB Berchtesgaden and 2011, EMB Maria Alm ) were given a steel hull. The boats run from the Seelände in the Königssee district at the northern tip of the lake to the St. Bartholomä landing stages under the Watzmann east face , Saletalm at the south end of the lake and to the Kessel jetty on the east bank. About halfway to St. Bartholomä, the boat driver demonstrates the impressive echo on the echo wall with a flugelhorn or a trumpet, which can be heard once or rarely twice. In the past, a firecracker was fired from the ship and an echo of up to seven times was generated; however, carrying black powder is now prohibited for safety reasons. Shipping on the lake is operated all year round (except on December 24th), provided that the ice on the lake in winter does not force shipping to stop. 80 people are employed in the company. It is the top-selling of the four companies.

Lake Starnberg shipping

The Starnberg

Current fleet

Surname Construction year length width people Others
Seeshaupt 2012 60 m 12.50 m 800
Starnberg 2004 56 m 15 m 800 Catamaran , 30 bikes
Bavaria 1939 48 m 10.40 m 700
Bernried 1983 34 m 6.60 m 300
mountain 1961 24.60 m 5.60 m 170 until March 4, 2012 on the Ammersee as MS Schondorf
imagination 1960 20 m 4.10 m 148 Museum ship to the Museum of Fantasy , better known as the Buchheim Museum in Bernried

Former fleet

Surname Construction year Shutdown length width people Others
Seeshaupt 1955 2011 60.20 m 12.20 m 900 scrapped
mountain 1951 2012 25.24 m 4.8 m 150 Work ship in Starnberg
Tutzing 1937 1995 32.74 m 7.85 m 225 Museum ship off Tutzing

The ships run from Easter Sunday to mid-October from the port or the piers next to the train station in Starnberg to landing stages in Berg , Leoni , Possenhofen , Tutzing , Ammerland , Bernried (Buchheim Museum) , Ambach and Seeshaupt . Floods can mean that only Tutzing can be approached. In addition to the scheduled traffic, a number of special trips are carried out.

With around 30 employees, the operating part achieves the company's second-highest turnover.

Ammersee shipping

The ships run from Easter Sunday to mid-October from the port in Stegen at the northern end of the Ammersee to landing stages in Buch , Schondorf , Breitbrunn , Utting , Holzhausen , Herrsching , Riederau and Dießen .

Around 20 people are employed in the Ammersee shipping division.

Current fleet

Surname Construction year length width people Others
This 1908 49 m 13 m 400 Paddle wheel motor ship , general refurbishment 2005/06
Herrsching 2002 54 m 14 m 400 Paddle wheel motor ship
Utting 2017 50 m 9 m 500 Motor ship
augsburg 2008 36 m 7.80 m 300 Motor ship

Former fleet

Surname Construction year Shutdown length width people Others
Schondorf 1961 2012 24.60 m 5.60 m 170 since May 2012 as MS Berg on Lake Starnberg (motor ship)
Utting 1950 2016 36 m 7.50 m 400 Motor ship, since 2017 event location in Munich-Sendling
Andechs 1907 1954 34 m 9.40 m 400 since April 1956 club house of the Bavarian Sailing Association eV in Utting
Herrsching 1956 2006 25 m about 250 scrapped

Tegernsee shipping

Current fleet

Surname Construction year length width people Others
Rottach-Egern 2002 31 m 7 m 250 Motor ship
Tegernsee 2003 31 m 7 m 250 Motor ship
Wallberg 1938 20 m 4 m 164 Motor ship
Gmund 1968 20 m 4.20 m 130 Motor ship
Kreuth 1977 20 m 4.20 m 130 Motor ship

On the tours, each of the three landing stages in Tegernsee , Rottach-Egern and Bad Wiessee as well as the pier in Gmund-Seeglas are called. The ships operate with a break in operation from the beginning of November to mid-December.

The home port of the ships is Tegernsee Ort.

The smallest part of the company employs around 20 people.

See also

Web links

Commons : Bayerische Seenschifffahrt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cornelia Knust: Look here - in the four-lake region. In: Economy 11/2011. Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria , November 2011, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ Anton Happach, paddle steamer Wittelsbach at www.arbeitskreis-historischer-schiffbau.de
  3. ↑ www.seenschifffahrt.de Company - Ammersee shipping history
  4. ↑ http://www.seenschifffahrt.de/unternehmen/geschichte/
  5. ↑ https://www.verkuendung-bayern.de/files/gvbl/1965/00/gvbl-1965-jahresinhaltsverzeichnis.pdf
  6. ↑ The Königssee ship fleet. ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Bayerischen Seen-Schifffahrt, accessed on April 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ Press release on Königssee shipping ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Lukas Koschnitzke: MS Schondorf becomes MS Berg: The long way to Lake Starnberg. merkur-online.de, March 4, 2012, accessed on March 4, 2012 .