Bremen shipyards
There are Bremer regarded shipyards from 1800, which at that time the silted river Weser in the area of Aue and Lesum mouth settled. The starting Bremer overseas trade demanded barks and full-rigged ships instead of in the Baltic and North Sea mainly used Besan ewer and Galioten .
Bremen shipyards from 1800
The first shipyards in Bremen were founded in the 17th century, some of them remained unknown, as the boundaries between a shipbuilding site ( Lastadie ), a boatyard and a shipyard were blurred at that time. Therefore shipyards from 1800 onwards are considered and provided with some dates and comments. Not long before that, Bremen's sea trade had shifted from the Baltic and North Sea to overseas, mainly to Central and North America .
The companies did not always emerge as shipyards, but some began as boatyards, such as B. Lürssen and the Rolandwerft , as machine factories, like the later AG Weser , as well as shipping company's own repair yards (Adlerwerft) and armatures (Atlaswerft).
Transition from sail to steam and from wood to steel
In the following years after 1800 several developments took place that influenced shipbuilding to a greater or lesser extent. The steam drive was installed for example by J. Lange (later Bremer Vulkan) on the paddle steamer Die Weser in 1817. It wasn't until around 20 years later that he built the next steamer . The last sailors as cargo ships were built 100 years later when the diesel engines began to replace the steam-powered triple expansion engines. The transition from wood to iron and then to steel shipbuilding was gradual but significant. It led from a craft business to an industrial business . Here, too, Lange was the first to build iron ships on the Weser around 1845. Waltjen & Leonhard (later AG Weser) should also be mentioned here, who founded a machine factory and iron foundry in 1843 .
Current status (2010)
The Rolandwerft belonged to the Hegemann Group as a 100% subsidiary of the Peene Werft. In April 2010, Detlef Hegemann Rolandwerft GmbH & Co. KG was sold to the Bremen Lürssen Group, which took over the shipyard on June 1, 2010. This leaves two shipyards that are currently still building ships.
List of Bremen shipyards
| Surname | Period | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adler shipyard | 1951-1964 | Bremen | The Adler Werft emerged from the Argo port workshop, which looked after the Argo fleet |
| Atlas works | 1911-1961 | Bremen | Founded in 1902 by Norddeutscher Lloyd as a North German machine and armatures factory, which was converted into Atlaswerke in 1911 |
| Bremen shipbuilding company | 1883-1895 | Bremen-Vegesack | Originally HF Ulrichs, converted to AG Bremer Schiffsbaugesellschaft in 1883, taken over by Bremer Vulkan in 1895 |
| Bremen volcano | 1893-1997 | Bremen-Vegesack | The forerunner was the J. Lange shipyard, which was expanded in 1895 by taking over the Bremen shipbuilding company |
| E. Burmester | 1920-1978 | Bremen Castle | Yacht and boat yard, which also built war vehicles (including minesweepers), in 1941 a branch was built in Swinoujscie |
| G. Clausen | 1801-1830 | Bremen | 1806 Menke & Clausen |
| D. Hegemann | 1978 – today | Bremen | D. Hegemann acquired the Rolandwerft in 1978 in order to maintain and build excavators and barges for his construction company, later moved to Berne, taking over the Peenewerft and the Volkswerft Stralsund |
| P. Jantzen | 1738-1813 | Bremen-Vegesack | J. Jantzen founded the shipyard, P. Jantzen took it over from his brother in 1802, after his death Jürgen Sager took over the shipyard in 1814 |
| J. Long | 1805-1893 | Bremen-Vegesack | From 1837 branch in Bremerhaven, parent shipyard of Bremer Vulkan |
| Ms. Lürssen | 1875 – today | Bremen-Vegesack | Ms. Lürßen began as a boatyard, made famous by racing boats, speedboats , later small merchant ships and innovative pilot boats, rescue cruisers and the like. a. |
| Roland shipyard | 1913 – today | Bremen-Hemelingen | Beginning with sports boats , speedboats , mine clearance boats, concrete tugs. From 1950 coasters , ferries , sea barges; 1972 bankruptcy; 1978 sold to Hegemann, 2010 to Lürssen |
| Sayers | 1814-1869 | Bremen-Vegesack | 1814 Jürgen Sager took over the yard from J. and P. Jantzen, after his death in 1841 it was continued by Peter Sager |
| Karl Sarstedt OHG | 1971 -? erected on the site of the Rönnebeck section of the Ruhrort shipyard and machine factory | Rönnebeck | Construction of the first MPOSS ship, [1] section construction for the Bremer Vulkan |
| HF Ulrichs | 1839-1883 | Bremen-Vegesack | From 1855 branch in Bremerhaven; After Ulrich's death in 1865, his son Carl continued the Vegesack business, converted into AG Bremer Schiffsbaugesellschaft in 1883, taken over by Bremer Vulkan in 1895; the Bremerhaven company is taken over by Seebeck |
| Waltjen & Leonhard | 1845-1872 | Bremen | Waltjen & Leonhard, later Waltjen & Co .; mainly built wheeled tractors; 1872 Transfer to AG Weser |
| Bernhard Wencke | 1839-1848 | Bremen | From 1925 onwards, his father Friedrich Wencke built some boats, B. Wencke moved to Hamburg as a shipowner; built the B. Wencke Sons shipyard in Hamburg |
| AG Weser | 1872-1983 | Bremen | Waltjen & Co. was moved to AG Weser in 1872, moved to Bremen Gröpelingen in 1905, where Helgen was built for large shipbuilding, Deschimag in 1926, AG Weser, Helgen enlarged again in 1945, large tank construction from 1970, ships built after 1170 closed in 1983 |
literature
- Horst Adamitz: tides of shipping . Verlag H. Saade, Bremen, ISBN 3-922642-09-8 .
- Peter Kuckuck: The Bremen volcano . Steintor Publishing House, Bremen 1987.
- Peter Kuckuck: The AG Weser . Steintor Publishing House, Bremen 1987.
- Georg Bessell, August Westermann: 150 years of shipbuilding in Vegesack . Steintor Publishing House, Bremen 1987.
- NN: 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, ports . Shipping publishing house "Hansa", Hamburg 1964.
- Karl Helm; Bremen's wooden shipbuilding from the middle age to the end of the 19th century , in: Bremisches Jahrbuch 44, 1955, pp. 174–243.