Eggers shipyard

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Eggers shipyard
legal form
founding around 1816
resolution March 28, 1889
Seat Cuxhaven , Germany
management Joachim Eggers (1816–1837)
Johann Eggers (1837–1880)
Branch shipbuilding

The Eggers Werft was a shipyard in Cuxhaven that existed from around 1816 to 1889 and was active in wooden shipbuilding. In addition to ship repairs, she mainly built coastal ships , including 18 larger ships.

history

The settlement and establishment of the shipyard by Joachim Eggers in Cuxhaven was due to the efforts of the Cuxhaven Commander Ernst Abendroth. His intention was to give damaged ships in Cuxhaven the opportunity to have repairs so that they no longer had to go to Glückstadt - as was necessary until then. For the city, it was a "highly profitable business" - according to Abendroth at the time. The establishment of a shipyard was the last step. Craftsmen could already be won for a Reeperbahn for the manufacture of cordage and for a sailmaker .

Example of a fisherman: The Maria af von Hoff in Kiel harbor

On October 3, 1815, the experienced master shipbuilder Joachim Eggers bought an area on the east side of the Schleusenpriel in Cuxhaven from Zimmerbaas Take Janzen for the settlement of the shipyard . In addition, in 1816 he acquired two more properties on the east side. In the same year he signed a contract with the hydraulic engineering manager appointed by Hamburg for the temporary use of a place for keel -hauling ships, which was located above the swing bridge.

The construction lists from the Cuxhaven city archive provide information about the shipbuilding activities of Eggers Werft, since the overhaul or inspection of a ship is less often reflected in the literature. The case of Ewer Maria can be cited as an example of this activity : On November 11, 1848, the Ewer of shipper Jacob Schlichting stranded on the Scharhörnstrand off Cuxhaven in good weather. Since no cause could be identified, the ship was moved to the Eggers shipyard for closer examination after the salvage.

Example of a schooner: The Atene : 2 topsails (above), each with a gaff sail , four foresails at the front

The newbuildings of the shipyard included in particular smaller ships that were used in coastal shipping and fishing. Ewer and Kuffe are repeatedly mentioned in the building lists - characteristic types that could also be seen in everyday life in Cuxhaven. One of the shipyard's largest and most consistent clients was the Hamburg Navy Administration, for which Eggers received almost all orders. This included the overhaul and new construction of "lightships" as lightships were then called. In 1837, the year Joachim Eggers handed over the shipyard to his son Johann, the shipyard received the order to rebuild the Jacob Hinrich light ship , which was delivered on July 29, 1837. In 1854 the shipyard built a new lightship, the Ernst , which sank in 1910 after a collision on the Elbe. The lightship was one of the shipyard's larger new builds. In addition, the shipyard built schooners and schooner briggs in particular , which were used both in coastal shipping and even in long-distance trade. Johann Eggers himself used two of these vehicles, the Schonerbrigg Active and the schooner Marie Louise , as a shipowner. By 1855 the Eggers shipyard had delivered a total of 18 larger ships.

Sail plan of a schooner brig

The schooner Marie Louise , completed in 1862, was the shipyard's last major new building and the largest ship built at the shipyard. That was when the “shipyard dying” began: The spreading steel shipbuilding increasingly required design documents, the conversion of large parts of the shipyard equipment and thus a high capital investment. Most of the small shipyards could not afford this transition from wooden shipbuilding to steel shipbuilding and had to give up - including Eggers Werft. After Johann Eggers' death in 1880, the family tried to sell the shipyard and the property. The company and the property were acquired on February 20, 1888 by the Imperial Navy Administration to build a mine depot. The Navy officially took over the Eggers shipyard on March 28, 1889. The mine depot was built in 1896.

Eggers family

Little information is available about the family of the shipyard founder Joachim Eggers: His father, Hans Eggers, was already a master ship builder in Finkenwerder - today a district of Hamburg. He died on March 30, 1792 in Lauenbruch near Harburg . Joachim Eggers was born in Finkenwerder on May 23, 1781. He married Margarete Amalie Wachholz, who was born on May 1, 1785 and died on November 18, 1853, two years after the death of her husband in 1851. Their son Johann, who lived from 1814 to 1880, emerged from this marriage.

Shipping company

In addition to the shipyard, Joachim Eggers and Johann Eggers also operated a number of small ships from 1837 to 1866. There is evidence of four ships, some of which were built in our own shipyard. The first acquisition was the Schonerbrigg Active, built in 1837 - the year Johann Eggers took over the shipyard - at the shipyard . From 1837 to 1840 the ship sailed to the Canary Islands , northern Norway as well as to Cuba and Venezuela . In 1840 Eggers handed the ship over to Gustav Balck from Hamburg.

He also used purchased ships from 1839 to 1853: In addition to the Kuff Alte Liebe (later Alert ), the Kuff Ajax . He sold this to his brother-in-law Hans Hey in 1852. The last to be used by the own shipping company was the schooner Marie Louise , which was also built in the company's own shipyard in 1860/62 . The ship sailed the route between Pernambuco , Jamaica and Santos and Bahia in Brazil . In 1866 Eggers also sold this ship, the buyer was Georg LA Struve.

Ships built (selection)

The list only contains the new buildings mentioned in the literature mentioned. The shipyard's construction lists are preserved in the Cuxhaven City Archives .

  • 1830: Ewer De Jonge Jan - Shipowner C. Oltmann (1844), 13 Commerzlast
  • 1835: Kuff Abendroth - 27 commercial burdens
  • 1836: Schooner Teutonia - shipowner BW Lülcke, 27 Commerzlasten
  • 1837: Schonerbrigg Active - Shipowner Joachim Eggers, 38 Commerzlasten
  • 1837: Jacob Hinrich lightship - reconstruction for the Hamburg naval administration, sold to Rickmers in Cuxhaven in 1901
  • 1840 Schooner Margaret - ship owner Carl A. Rühs, 58 Commerzlasten
  • 1841: Schooner Laura - Shipowner JH Thode, 25 Commerzlasten
  • 1841: Schooner John & Helena - Shipowner CH Bremer, 41 Commerzlasten
  • 1846: Fischerewer HF 28
  • 1851: Schooner Hugo - ship owner John R. Möller, 50 commercial loads
  • 1854: Lightship Ernst - new building for Hamburg naval administration; rammed and sank on January 2, 1910 by the Hapag steamer Patria near the Cuxhaven ball beacon
  • 1862: Schonerbrigg Marie-Louise - Shipowner Joachim Eggers, 62 Commerzlasten
  • 1873: Fischerewer HF 18

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 .
  • Karl B. Kühne : Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992. Verlagsgesellschaft Cuxhaven, Cuxhaven 1993, ISBN 3-920709-33-0 .
  • Nik Schumann: Mützelfeldtwerft. Verlag August Rauschenplat, Cuxhaven 2015, ISBN 936619-44-3-5 .
  • Hans Szymanski: The Ever of the Lower Elbe. 1932. (Reprint: Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86741-726-6 )
  • Torsten Thees: Cuxhaven in old views. Publisher European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1990, ISBN 90-288-4953-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992. 1993, pp. 100f.
  2. ^ A b Peter Bussler: Historical City Lexicon for Cuxhaven. 2002, p. 97.
  3. ↑ a b c Nik Schumann: Mützelfeldtwerft. 2015, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Torsten Thees: From the shipping. at cuxhaven.de
  5. ^ Online archive plan of the Hamburg State Archives “The shipping and port deputation, founded in 1814, was responsible for hydraulic engineering (as a forerunner of electricity and port engineering) and naval affairs. The Hamburg naval administration was headed by the commander and pilot inspector in Cuxhaven, who later carried the official title of director of naval affairs, after him the inspector of arsenals and buoys in Hamburg, from 1864 naval inspector, from 1912 naval director. "
  6. ↑ a b c d Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992. 1993, p. 298.
  7. ^ Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992. 1993, p. 110f.
  8. ↑ Nik Schumann: Mützelfeldtwerft. 2015, p. 19f.
  9. ↑ Bernd Kappelhoff (editor), Christina Deggim (editor): Archival sources on sea traffic and the related flows of goods and culture on the German North Sea coast from the 16th to the 19th century. A relevant inventory. Part 1: Archives in the Elbe-Weser area and in Bremen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-35548-0 .
  10. ^ Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992. 1993, p. 292.
  11. ^ Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992. 1993, p. 99, also in: Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. Hafen am Meer , Verlag Egon Heinemann, Norderstedt 1981, ISBN 3-87321-975-1 , p. 37.
  12. ^ A b Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992. 1993, p. 294.
  13. ↑ a b c d Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992. 1993, p. 296.
  14. ↑ a b Hans Szymanski: The Ever der Niederelbe. 2011, p. 343.