Heinrich Brand shipyard
| Heinrich Brand Schiffswerft GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1850 |
| resolution | 1997 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Oldenburg , Lower Saxony |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
The Heinrich fire Schiffswerft GmbH & Co. KG was a shipyard in Oldenburg .
history
The shipyard was founded by Heinrich Christian Brand in Edewecht in 1850 and was run as a family business until bankruptcy in 1995. In 1853 the shipyard was relocated to Oldenburg, where Brand took over an existing shipyard. The shipyard was initially “Am Stau” on the left bank of the Hunte, a little above today's railway bridge . In 1917 the shipyard was relocated a little further downstream to the other side of the Hunte. The new ships were built from steel instead of wood.
After the Second World War, ships were built again at the Brand shipyard from 1947. The first new building that was delivered by the shipyard was the largest ship in the newly emerging German merchant fleet at the time . At the end of the 1950s, the shipyard switched from riveted to welded hulls .
As the shipyard's capacity was insufficient for new buildings and repairs, a repair shipyard in Bardenfleth on the Weser was taken over in 1959 .
From 1961 the shipyard also began building special ships , in particular gas and chemical tankers , but also paper freighters, RoRo ships and a polar supply ship, the "Icebird", which was delivered in 1984.
In 1982, a section hall was built on the shipyard site, in which sections up to 80 t could be built. As a result of the shipyard crisis in the 1980s, there were no more newbuilding orders from May 1987. As a result, only steel construction work was carried out at the shipyard. In addition, the repair shop in Bardenfleth had to be shut down in 1988.
From 1988 new construction orders could be obtained again. For the construction of the ships, a dry dock with a length of 130 m and a width of 22 m was built until 1990 , in which ships up to 10,000 t DWT and a width of 20 m could be manufactured.
1995 threatened the end of the shipyard. The Teviot , which was built at the Brand Shipyard, lost a propeller at sea . In a damage process in London, the shipyard was sentenced to pay damages . Despite the good order situation , bankruptcy had to be filed. As a result, a rescue company was founded, the Neue Brand-Werft, which continued operations on the shipyard site. In August 1997, however, the operation had to be finally stopped after a previously delivered new building ended with high losses for the shipyard and further orders could not be financed in advance. The Oldenburg lawyer Detlef Hühne was the managing director until the shipyard was closed.
Today, several companies are based on the former shipyard in Oldenburg, including shipbuilding companies belonging to the Brand family.
List of ships built by Brand (selection)
- City of Oldenburg , Brigg , built in 1857,sold to unknownin Singapore in1864
- Aventura , built in 1938; converted into a cabin passenger ship in the 1990s, in service
- On November 16, 1963, the freighter Blexersand was launched under hull number 166 for a shipping company in Brake . The ship sank in May 1986 when Paolo owned an Italian shipping company off Corfu .
literature
- Richard Bremer: Brands Helgen. The history of a shipyard, recorded for its centenary , Uelzen (Becker) o. J. (1950).
- Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world. Volume II: The history of the sailing ships from Weser and Hunte and their shipyards from 1790 to 1926. Elsfleth - Brake - Oldenburg , Bremen 2003, pp. 224–233. ISBN 3-89757-150-1 .
Web links
- Brand Werft, Alt-Oldenburg.de
- Shipbuilding on the Hunte, Die Brand Werft 1850-1997 , manuscript, February 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Blexersand , Ship-DB (PDF, 1.1 MB). Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- ↑ wreck map of Paolo , ex Danish Ardal , ex German Blexersand .
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 29 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 53 ″ E