Boathouse
A boathouse is a building on the bank of a body of water (on land or water) that is primarily used to store watercraft .
history
The Naust is a characteristic building type of the Scandinavian north. The ships from the Iron Age and the Viking Age were already stored and serviced in Naust . Traces of these boathouses can be found on the coasts, where the shores are shallow enough to pull the relatively light ships ashore.
The classic boathouse
The classic boathouse stands on the bank and is built over the water. It serves as a "garage" for ships. A boathouse can be a simple wooden shed, but it can also be very elaborately and artistically built as part of a villa or an entire property. If the boathouse is on a slope, it is often integrated into the terrain in such a way that the roof can be used as a terrace facing the lake. A jetty or bathing jetty is often connected to the boathouse.
To protect the ships from wave movements, they are lifted out of the water with a crane attached to the roof beam and then hang lying in the lifting straps or floating on a special frame under the roof. The boathouse is open on the water side or closed with a wing or roller door.
Fishing boats or taxi and passenger boats are also stored in such boathouses on inland waters. Public passenger shipping also often parks their ships overnight in boat halls, but without pulling them up.
Sports club boathouses
Boathouses are also called warehouses or parts of a clubhouse of rowing clubs, canoeing clubs , motor boat clubs, other sports clubs, but also of commercial boat rental companies or water sports schools. The halls are used to store row boats, dinghies, kayaks, surfboards or rubber dinghies, or are used as covered winter storage in winter. An outdoor dry berth is often attached to such a boathouse .
Many halls are made of wood . Depending on the size of the boathouse, smaller boats such as canoes , rowing boats and other small vehicles are housed in it, including accessories such as paddles , oars and sculls . Accessories such as life jackets or special clothing can also be housed separately, as can other rooms such as changing rooms, lockers and washing facilities near the boathouse or separately. Materials and tools for boat repairs are also often stored in the boathouse. The boat maintenance officer is usually responsible for the boathouse and its inventory. A logbook provides an overview.
Boathouses are part of the infrastructure of the respective water sports clubs, as the sports equipment cannot be stored outdoors. Some pleasure boats on a berth are only kept in the boathouse in winter. Furthermore, they are used by the clubs for the maintenance and repair of their sports equipment and often also as accommodation for water hikes .
In order to be able to do sports even in bad weather, there are often other sports equipment , equipment for strength training or so-called boat boxes for precise movement analysis .
When used by clubs , boathouses can also be the club's headquarters . Older boat houses often contain a club house, which (for licensing reasons) was often only accessible to club members. Since this operating concept rarely pays off today, there are also (former) boathouses that now exclusively or partially house public restaurants .
Boathouse of rowing clubs
Boat shed
The center of the typical rowing boat house is the boat shed. This is where the expensive and sensitive rowing boats are stored, which is generally done using special bearings on the walls and ceiling of the hall. The skulls and straps are also hung in special devices. Moreover, in most boat sheds that will logbook of the association kept enters in which each athlete after the end of a rudder unit date and time, the distance traveled and the used boat.
Changing rooms
Changing rooms with showers are also part of every boathouse, as rowing as an endurance sport is generally practiced in sportswear and in exceptional cases rowing boats can overturn , which makes it necessary to shower and change immediately, especially in the cold half of the year.
Weight room
In competitive rowing, versatile training concepts are built on. In addition to actually rowing, a rower also trains through running training, ergometer training and strength training. That is why there is a weight room in every boathouse, provided that the space is available, in which sports equipment such as rowing ergometers and weight benches are set up.
The boathouse at canoe clubs
The basic structure of the boathouse of canoe clubs largely corresponds to the concept in rowing with the tripartite division of the boat hall, changing room and (with competitive sports orientation) weight room. Often there is also a club or a meeting room.
For canoeing , the German Canoe Association has introduced the concept of DKV canoe stations , in which clubs make their area available for canoeists passing through for a small fee.
In addition to a jetty , there must be opportunities for camping with sufficient washing facilities .
The boathouse as a place to relax
In addition to the classic dachas, boathouses and boat sheds were popular places of relaxation and retreat in the former GDR . Due to a much more liberal attitude of the authorities than in today's Federal Republic, numerous boathouses emerged in the 1960s and 1970s on the lakes and waterways, especially in Mecklenburg. Today, these shape the appearance of the Mecklenburg lakes and convey the romance of a holiday on the water and in nature. Basically, the boat sheds, as a boat garage, partly with a lounge and often only supplied with electricity, are to be distinguished from the boat houses with a separate living area and a facility for overnight stays and stays for several days. Because according to current building law, the boathouses, which are mostly located in the outer space under building law, are only protected as existing, without the possibility of changing their use. With the current use of the boathouses, it depends on whether they only had the function of a boat garage or whether they were previously used as a place to stay and vacation. The latter are now partially renovated and expanded according to today's standards and are offered and used as holiday homes. The particular attraction of these boathouses is that they are right on the water. As a rule, boathouses are equipped with a motor boat, row boat or paddle boat as a vehicle for using the waters. The typical thatched roofs are striking at boathouses for recreational purposes . This makes them very popular with water sports enthusiasts, anglers, bird and nature lovers.
literature
- Wilhelm Reuss: oars, boat and boathouse . Minden: Philler, 1964. - 176 pp.
- Hugo Borrmann: oars, boat and boathouse . The technical guide for all rowing and boating equipment. Berlin: Wassersport-Verlag, 1940. - XII, 152 pp.
- Oliver Grimm: The imperial boathouse from Stend i Fana (Norway) . (= Small writings from the Prehistory Seminar of the Philipps University of Marburg, issue 48) Editor: Prehistory of the Philipps University of Marburg. Marburg: University, Prehistoric Seminar, 1999. - 68, 55 pp.
Web links
- DKV canoe stations ( Memento from September 3, 2003 in the Internet Archive )