Berg (ship, 1951)

mountain

The former mountain as a work ship in the Starnberg harbor (2019)

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Day trip boat home port Starnberg Owner Bayerische Seenschifffahrt GmbH Shipyard Theodor Hitzler, Regensburg Launch 1951 Whereabouts Work ship

Ship dimensions and crew length 25.24 m ( Lüa ) width 4.8 m Draft Max. 0.8 m

Machine system

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 160

The Berg was a passenger ship of the Bayerische Seenschifffahrt on the Starnberger See . After six decades in the service of passengers, she was retired and is now used as a work ship.

history

In the post-war period, the last steamships on Lake Starnberg were decommissioned: The Starnberg (ex Wittelsbach ) was eliminated in 1947, the Munich (ex Luitpold ) in 1954. They were preceded by Bavaria as early as 1940 . However, while in 1939 a rather generously proportioned successor was built with the Bayern , the ships of the post-war period were more modest.

The mountain was, at an engine output of 225  hp , carrying 160 people. It was 25.24 meters long and nearly 5 meters wide. It was used in passenger service until a restoration for further use in this function no longer made economic sense. In 2012, the mountain was rededicated as a work ship. In this function it no longer has a name, but only the number STA-428.

The name “Berg” was transferred to the successor vehicle for the 2013 season: the Schondorf , built in 1961 , which had been in use on the Ammersee until then , was brought from Stegen to Tutzing via Dießen . To do this, the driver's cab was cut off and later welded back on so that the ship could be transported on the road with a low-loader . The Schondorf , at that time the smallest passenger ship on the Ammersee, was only slightly busy there and was to be used as a new mountain for smaller tours in the northern part of the Starnberger See. In March 2012, the approximately 40 km long transport was completed, in April the ship was to be renamed. It was estimated at the time that the new mountain would be usable for another 15 to 20 years. A few years later, however, the ship Fantasy was abolished because it no longer met the requirements. The imagination was only slightly older, albeit a little smaller than the first and second mountain .

literature

• Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships. Illustrated register of ships. Uwe Welz Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3 , page 308

Web links

Commons : Berg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ STA 428 - work ship - (Starnbergersee) on www.binnenschifferforum.de
2. ↑ Bayerische Seeschiffahrt - The MS Starnberg: Flagship [sic!] Of the Bayerische Seeschiffahrt on the Starnberger See , on: www.ganz-muenchen.de
3. ↑ Berg (1) - FGS - (Starnbergersee) on www.binnenschifferforum.de
4. ↑ MS Berg at www.seenschifffahrt.de
5. ↑ Ship changes location: MS Schondorf becomes MS Berg , February 2, 2012 on www.merkur.de
6. ↑ Schondorf becomes zu Berg , October 12, 2011 at www.augsburger-allgemeine.de . According to this article, the new mountain has a transport capacity of 170 people and is the same age [!] As the old mountain .
7. ↑ Marcus Mäckler, When a Ship Goes Traveling , March 4, 2012 at www.tz.de.
8. ↑ Starnberger See almost without “fantasy” , May 29, 2018 on www.merkur.de