Bodan shipyard

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Bodan Werft Metallbau GmbH & Co. KG

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founding 1919
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Seat Kressbronn am Bodensee , Germany

The Bodan Werft Metallbau GmbH & Co. KG was a special shipyard based in Baden-Wuerttemberg Kressbronn am Bodensee . The shipyard was particularly important for Lake Constance shipping . In addition to shipbuilding, there were other business areas such as swimming pool and metal construction as well as the operation of a port.

history

The company, founded in 1919 by Hermann Stachelhaus , was the first industrial shipyard on Lake Constance , at that time it was the only company on Lake Constance to manufacture steel ships. The first focus of production were motor fishing boats, which were licensed by the German automobile manufacturer Benz & Cie. were built, as well as smaller passenger motor boats and private yachts. In 1927 the first inland sea ferry for the newly established Konstanz-Meersburg ferry connection was built in the shipyard.

An increasingly important client from 1920 onwards was the Deutsche Reichsbahn , which took over passenger shipping on Lake Constance from the state railways. Initially, the Reichsbahn had only smaller ships built at the Bodan shipyard, the large units they obtained from shipyards outside the Lake Constance region.

Bodan shipyard in Kressbronn on Lake Constance (May 2006)

During the Second World War , the company was committed to the Navy and built landing craft for the Wehrmacht . Some of the production facilities were dismantled after the war, but fishing boats were built again from 1946 and passenger ships again from 1949. Thanks to modernizations and expansions, the shipyard was now able to manufacture larger ships.

In addition to the Deutsche Reichsbahn and its successors as the operator of the German White Fleet , important customers have been the Zürichsee-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft (ZSG) since 1952 , which today still has eleven active ships (including the flagship MS Helvetia) and three Limmat boats from the Bodan shipyard, and the Lake Zurich ferry Horgen – Meilen AG, which ordered a total of five ferries from 1968.

Under the designation Bodan ferry , pioneer ferries named after the Bodan shipyard were in service with the Bundeswehr from 1962 to 2001 .

According to an announcement from IG Metall on December 28, 2010, the Bodan Group Kressbronn intends to discontinue the shipyard and design office divisions in spring 2011 and to liquidate them due to debts. On March 19, 2011, the works council (supported by IG Metall) and the management agreed on a social plan. In spring 2011, the Bodan shipyard was checked by the Tübingen regional council due to the planned change in use. In May the owner was informed that the Bodan shipyard was a cultural monument for scientific and local history reasons. On July 6, 2011, the Technical Committee of the Kressbronn City Council approved the application that all buildings in the shipyard should be demolished and that the site should be used for other purposes. The public learned on August 2, 2011 that the Bodan shipyard is a listed building. Several citizens' initiatives campaign for the preservation of the historical buildings and the use of the land in the interests of the general public.

On the former site of the Bodan shipyard, residential buildings were built in and around the listed shipyard hall.

Since then there have only been shipyards for larger ships in Fußach and Romanshorn on Lake Constance .

Lake Constance ships

Event ship Sun Queen

The Bodan shipyard built a large number of ships that were or are formative for Lake Constance shipping:

Ships for other inland waters

Lake Zurich

  • Lake Zurich ferry Horgen – Meilen : Schwan (1969), Meilen (1979), Horgen (1991), Zürisee (1999), Burg (2003)
  • Zürichsee-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft : Linth (1952), Glärnisch (1955), Säntis (1957), Limmat (1958), Bachtel (1962), Helvetia (1964), Wädenswil (1968), Albis (1997), Pfannenstiel (1998), Uetliberg (1999), Zimmerberg (2001), Forch (2001) and the Limmatschiffe Turicum (1992), Felix (1993) and Regula (1993)

Lake Thun and Lake Brienz

photos

  • Lake Zurich and Limmat ships

  • Ferry Swan (1969)

  • Ferry Miles (1979)

  • Horgen ferry (1991)

  • Zürisee ferry (1999)

  • Ferry Castle (2003)

  • Linth (1952)

  • Säntis (1957)

  • Limmat (1958)

  • Bachtel (1962)

  • Helvetia (1964)

  • Waedenswil (1968)

  • Albis (1997)

  • Pan Style (1998)

  • Uetliberg (1999)

  • Zimmerberg (2001)

  • Limmatboot Turicum (1992)

  • Limmatboot Felix (1993)

  • Limmatboot Regula (1993)

See also

literature

  • Bodan shipyard 1919–2009. 90 years of the Bodan shipyard . Stadler, Konstanz 2008, ISBN 978-3-7977-9915-9 (calendar).
  • Michael Berg (editor): The former Bodan shipyard in Kressbronn on Lake Constance 1919–2011. On the history of an important inland shipyard , regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher [2019], ISBN 978-3-95505-135-8 .

Web links

Commons : Bodan Shipyard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Christina Bömelburg / böm: Shipyard business is to be discontinued . In: Südkurier of December 29, 2010
  2. ↑ Britta Baier: Finally: The social plan is fixed . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of March 4, 2011
  3. ↑ Monument protection stops plans for Bodan area  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / content.stuttgarter-zeitung.de   . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of August 9, 2011
  4. ↑ Gisela Keller: Councils approve the demolition of the Bodan shipyard . In: Südkurier of July 8, 2011
  5. ↑ Britta Baier: Sure: Cancellation application gets the green light from the council . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from July 8, 2011
  6. ↑ Britta Baier: No kidding: Monument protection blocks Bodan area . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from August 2, 2011
  7. ↑ Information platform of the Bodan Areal Kressbronn citizens' initiative: www.info-bodan-areal.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.info-bodan-areal.de  
  8. ↑ Citizens working group Bodanwerftgelände: www.bodan-dialog-jetzt.de
  9. ↑ Bürgerufer Bodan Kressbronn eV: www.bodanpark.com ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bodanpark.com
  10. ↑ The former site of the Bodan shipyard in transition . In: Südkurier of May 11, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2016
  11. ↑ Alphabetical register of ships. In: bodenseeschifffahrt.de. Florian Scholz, accessed on February 19, 2009 .
  12. ↑ BLS Shipping Bernese Oberland: our fleet. In: bls.ch. BLS AG, 2007, accessed on March 20, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 9 ° 35 ′ 31.2 ″  E