Döscher shipyard
| Döscher shipyard | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1945 |
| resolution | 1964/1969 |
| Seat | Cuxhaven , Germany |
| management | Kurt Döscher |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
The Döscher shipyard was a boat and cutter yard in Cuxhaven that was founded in 1945. It is unclear whether operations ceased in 1964 or 1969. In addition to the construction and repair of cutters, the shipyard had specialized in the manufacture of boat boats .
prehistory
Cuxhaven was annexed to the Prussian province of Hanover in 1937 with the Greater Hamburg Law of Hamburg . The new fishing port was built in 1938 . On the east side of the Schleusenpriel three shipyards settled between 1938 and 1945, which made a name for themselves as "cutter shipyards": The first in 1938 was the Böhmewerft , after the Second World War in 1945 the Mews shipyard and the Döscher shipyard.
Tradition to the Döscher shipyard
Kurt Döscher and his company settled in 1945 on the east side of the new fishing port in today's Kapitän-Alexander-Straße 15, right next to the Mews shipyard. The entry in the commercial register for the years 1946–1947 names Kurt Döscher and Ludwig Kraus as the owner, about whom no further information is available.
The shipyard concentrated on the construction of ships and boats in wooden construction: New buildings, conversions and repairs of Helgoland boats and cutters from the fishing industry were the main field of activity of the small company. The shipyard's specialty was the construction of port boats. By 1964, it manufactured eight of these boats. When the processing of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GRP) began in boat building in the 1960s , the demand for wooden boats that required a lot of maintenance declined. A conversion or expansion to GRP buildings did not take place. Due to the shrinking demand, the Döscher shipyard had to give up operations. It is unclear whether Kurt Döscher ran the business until 1964 or 1969. The founder of the shipyard died in 1969.
Newbuildings of the shipyard (selection)
A construction list from the Döscher shipyard does not yet exist in the literature. Only one new building is known (at the moment):
- 1957 Meedland , ex Noctiluca , ex Maria (HEL 12): The Börteboot from the Döscher shipyard now belongs to the Hamburg building contractor Jan Brauckmann.
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End of shipyard operations
In contrast to the Böhmewerft and the Mews-Werft, the Döscher-Werft did not find a successor after the business was closed. The Segler-Vereinigung Cuxhaven e. V. (SVC) later set up their winter storage facility for boats. According to one of the sources, the former shipyard owner Kurt Döscher was the club's harbor master until his death in 1969.
See also
literature
- Peter Bussler: Historical city lexicon for Cuxhaven . Special publication of the Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Volume 36, Cuxhaven 2002, ISBN 3-931771-36-9 .
- Werner Jakobeit, Günter Kramp, Willi Schäfer: The Beckmann shipyard. Chronology of a Cuxhaven shipyard (series of publications by the “Förderverein Schifffahrtsgeschichte Cuxhaven eV”, issue 10b (V1L / May 2016)). Own print, Cuxhaven 2016.
Web links
- Thomas Sassen: A homage to "the Heligoland" . In: Cuxhavener Nachrichten , November 28, 2014, accessed on July 5, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jakobeit, p. 15
- ↑ Bussler, p. 386
- ↑ Address Cuxhaven from 1954. cuxpedia.de
- ↑ Entry in the commercial register 1946–1947 Lower Saxony State Archives, Stade location
- ↑ Sassen mentions 1964, while Jakobeit, p. 15, mentions the year 1969
- ↑ Photos of the Meedeland on the website of the Association for the Preservation of Helgoland Börteboote
- ↑ Wiebke Kramp: New life for "Steingrund": Helgoland Börteboot saved . In: Cuxhavener Nachrichten , May 3, 2016
- ↑ Holger Bünning: The book of the Helgoland Börte . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-933-4 , p. 127
- ↑ Jakobeit, p. 16
- ↑ Thomas Sassen: A homage to "the Heligoland" . In: Cuxhavener Nachrichten , November 28, 2014, accessed on July 5, 2018