Bismarck class (1904)
Backstock on the banks of the Main in Offenbach
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The Bismarck class is a series of five passenger ships that were completed in 1904 at the Stettiner Oderwerke . The ships were propelled by steam engines. Some ships were later rebuilt, lengthened and re-motorized.
The ships Backschaft (see construction number 541) and Heiterkeit (see construction number 543)
have been preserved to this day.
history
In 1901 the shipping company Spree-Havel-Dampfschiffahrt-Gesellschaft Stern , or SpHDG Stern for short, carried more than a million passengers across Berlin and adjacent waters. The motto Een Vagniejen of its own kind is never a water trip as the Berliners said, began to come true. By the First World War , the capacities of the Märkische and Berlin passenger shipping companies were expanded. The trips were extended from Spandau via Wannsee to Potsdam and on to Ferch and Werder (Havel) . Further new buildings were added to the company. In 1903, SpHDG Stern ordered five high-speed twin-screw steamers from the Stettiner Oderwerke shipyard , which were completed in 1904. The steamers of the Bismarck class could carry between 305 and 340 people. They were baptized in the names of famous personalities such as Prince O. Bismarck , Theodor Fontane , Ad. V. Menzel , Professor Rud. Virchow and Count H. Moltke . The type ship is hull number 543, the last ship of the class.
Ships
| Bismarck class | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. / build no. | Building name | other names | L / W / T | Pers. | History / whereabouts / known owners | proof |
| 1/539 | Theodor Fontane | 29.95 m / 5.52 m / 1.10 m | 315 | The steamer Theodor Fontane was in service in Stettin during the war and survived the chaos of war unscathed. It was confiscated by the Red Army in Fürstenberg (Oder) on the way back to Berlin . The ship left its home waters with a military crew in the summer of 1946 for the Soviet Union. The whereabouts are unclear. | ||
| 2/540 | Ad. V. Menzel | Ace of Spades , Iskele | 29.95 m / 5.52 m / 1.10 m | 335 | Sunk just before the end of the war in 1945 in front of the AEG site in Oberschöneweide , after the uplift it was taken over by the German Shipping Union (DSU) . 1958 conversion to a motor ship. In use at Weisse Flotte Berlin, restaurant ship in Urbanhafen until the mid-1980s, canceled in 2010. | |
| 3/541 | Professor Rud. Virchow | Seebad Templin , Nicole B. , pirate , backstock (ship) | 29.95 m / 5.52 m / 1.10 m (after conversion) 35.72 m / 5.75 m / 1.83 m |
340 (after modification) 222 |
Delivered to SpHDG Stern in 1904 , sunk in Glienicker Lake in April 1945 , lifted in summer 1946, the destroyed deckhouse was renewed in winter 1946/47 at the Lanke shipyard in Berlin, in 1959/60 it was converted into a motor ship and extended by six meters at Placke -Werft Aken / Elbe; SpHDG Stern / Stern & Kreisschiffahrt, Berlin → General Direction Schiffahrt, Berlin (1947–1949) → DSU Personenschiffahrt, Berlin → Weisse Flotte Potsdam (1957–1993) → A. Harms Personenschiffahrt Nicole B., Hanover → GCT GmbH & Co KG, Gelsenkirchen → Gunmar Ohlenschläger, Offenbach, | |
| 4/542 | Count H. Moltke | Venus , Maxim Gorky , | 29.95 m (after conversion) / 5.52 m / 1.10 m |
311 | Delivered to SpHDG Stern in 1904 , sunk in Glienicker Lake in April 1945 , lifted in summer 1946, the destroyed deckhouse was renewed at the Plaue shipyard in winter 1946/47, renamed Venus . Further name Maxim Gorki (P 086) and 1959 new owner VEB Verkehrsbetriebe Brandenburg an der Havel . Conversion in the VEB Volkswerft Ernst Thälmann to a two-screw motor ship with a more modern stem. Extended to 31.25 m. The ship was canceled in 1982. | |
| 5/543 | Prince O. Bismarck | Neptune , peace watch , Dorotheenstadt , serenity | 29.95 m / 5.52 m / 1.10 m (after conversion) 36.60 m / 5.60 m / 1.10 m |
305 (after modification) 329 |
The type ship of the class remained in Berlin after the war . It was sunk by German soldiers in Oberschöneweide shortly before the end of the war, lifted after the war, restored and renamed Neptune . Takeover by the DSU in 1957 and renamed again, now in Friedenswacht . 1959/60 conversion to a motor ship and lengthened by six meters at the Aken shipyard . Deck and superstructures have been increased and changed. In 1980 the Genthin shipyard, now SET Schiffbau- u. Development company Tangermünde subjected the ship to a general overhaul. The ship was in use until the end of the 1990s, then was laid up and lies in Berlin-Treptow. It is used as a recording studio. | |
literature
- Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships. Illustrated register of ships. Uwe Welz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3
- Kurt Groggert: Spree trip is necessary! : Berliner on d. right steamer . Haude and Spener, Berlin; ISBN 3-7759-0153-1
- Kurt Groggert: Passenger shipping on the Havel and Spree . Berlin Contributions to the History of Technology and Industrial Culture, Vol. 10, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1988; ISBN 3-87584-253-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BinSchStrO / First Part, § 1.01 Definitions, 16/17
- ↑ The information in the information box relates to shipyard construction.
- ↑ Studio Ship Cheerfulness , ex. Fürst O. Bismarck accessed on December 26, 2019
- ↑ Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt on Havel and Spree . P. 124
- ↑ Spelling as on the ship's side, as in the literature or the spelling of the respective time.
- ↑ "LBT" = length / latitude / draft
- ↑ Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt on Havel and Spree . P. 255
- ↑ Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt on Havel and Spree . P. 318
- ^ Lanke shipyard on the Scharfen Lanke Berlin-Spandau
- ↑ Website Back stem accessed on December 26, 2019
- ↑ Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt on Havel and Spree S. 255
- ↑ Kurt Groggert: Passenger shipping on the Havel and Spree p. 311