The Bremen is a passenger ship on the Weser and is used as a day trip ship in regular services and for themed trips. The ship is operated by the Weser fleet . It is approved for a maximum of 250 people. The ship was named after the city of Bremen .
The ship with a bow ramp was launched in 1972 by the Sorpesee passenger shipping company on the Sorpesee , a reservoir in the Hochsauerland district. At the beginning of the 2005 season it was sold and replaced by the Sorpesee passenger ship . In April 2005, the seagull was brought to Lake Concordia in Saxony-Anhalt, partly by low loader . It is the largest artificial lake in the Harz foreland in Saxony-Anhalt. The ship was in operation there as a Seeland pearl since May 25, 2005 with a license to carry a maximum of 250 guests.
On July 18, 2009 at around 4:40 a.m. in the area of Nachterstedt, an approximately 350 by 150 meter wide strip of land fell into the lake. People were killed in the accident . The Seeland pearl was partially pushed onto land by the resulting tidal wave. The lake was then closed. The use of a passenger ship was not possible in the long term and the Seeland pearl was advertised for sale. The company Flotte Weser bought the ship. On September 21, 2010, the Seelandperle , which came to the lake by heavy goods transport five years ago, was reloaded and transported overland to Aken on the Elbe . From there the ship drove on its own keel to its port of call via the Elbe and Mittelland Canal to the Weser in Bremen.
The ship
The ship is 28.80 meters long and 5.70 meters wide. The average draft is 82 centimeters. The ship, baptized Bremen, offers seats for almost 250 passengers, 80 of whom can be seated in the lower saloon and 120 in the upper part of the ship. The ship has a bow ramp for boarding and disembarking passengers .
literature
Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships. Illustrated register of ships . Uwe Welz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3 , p. 398