Elbe shipping archive
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place | Lauenburg |
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Shipping archive
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opening | 1974 |
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Association for the promotion of the Lauenburger Elbschiffahrtsmuseum eV
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Website |
Elbe shipping archive [1]
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The Elbe Shipping Archive was founded in 1974 by the "Association for the Promotion of the Lauenburg Elbe Shipping Museum " with the primary goal of securing, archiving and evaluating existing technical documents on shipbuilding and shipping. Werner Hinsch was elected director in 1974 and, in almost 50 years, a huge collection has been built up from the smallest beginnings in voluntary work and is now in charge in Germany.
founding
The Elbe Shipping Museum was set up at the end of 1959. In 1967 the association for the promotion of the Lauenburg Elbe Shipping Museum was founded. The main objectives were to support the museum, especially in the areas of procurement and storage of exhibits, storage and archiving of technical documents. The tasks that are taken on by full-time employees in larger museums were carried out here by voluntary members of the friends' association. These tasks were already included in the statutes when the association was founded.
The background to the establishment of the Elbe Shipping Archive was the rapid increase in technical documents, descriptions and especially technical drawings of ships built and technical ship systems. With the establishment of the Elbe shipping archive and the first premises, the German Maritime Museum was able to take over extensive holdings from the shipyards Christof Ruthof in Mainz and Ewald Berninghaus in Cologne and Duisburg, which went bankrupt in 1975 .
Lauenburg, Elbstraße 141
After 10 years the inventory had grown so much that the current club chairman Wolfgang Jedeck, with the support of Lauenburg mayor Hauke Matthießen, rented the building at Elbstrasse 141. This provided the basis for collecting and evaluating further valuable technical documents such as drawings, photos, sound carriers and books from the fields of shipbuilding and shipping with a focus on '' 'Inland Shipping' '' . In the meantime, up to 15 voluntary employees from Lauenburg and the surrounding area are constantly looking through, sorting, archiving and evaluating the technical documents.
use
The Elbe Shipping Archive is a presence archive and works in close coordination with the Elbe Shipping Museum . Use is free of charge. In addition to collecting and archiving, the main focus of the archive is on the creation of publications on special inland navigation issues. Financing is provided by the friends' association, the cost of renting the archive building at Elbstrasse 141 is borne by the city of Lauenburg to 50%.
The research assignment is set out in the statutes of the association and is carried out by the Elbe shipping archive. In 1988, the first major research project “ Rafting on the Elbe ” was realized and traced back to the beginnings in 1325. The results are presented in the book series of the Friends' Association (Book No. 3). A long-term research project together with the Gotthard Sachsenberg Foundation examined the development and construction of German hydrofoil boats and was financed by the Foundation and the Friends' Association. The results are published in the book “Hydrofoils of the Schertel Sachsenberg System” and have attracted international attention.
The stocks
There are now around
- 50,000 technical drawings and technical documents from well-known shipyards for the construction of inland vessels in the period from 1850 to the present day.
- Over 20,000 photos show ships, life on board, harbors and river landscapes. In the specialist library are
- 10,000 books and more
- various models and half-models of ships as well as the Karl-Vortisch-Schiff and Theodor-Beyer-Schiff
- 5000 archival documents, consisting of maps, shares from shipping companies and shipyards as well as special collections from private estates complete the inventory.
collaboration
The Lauenburg Elbe Shipping Archive has been working constructively with the following institutions, associations and people for many years:
- Shipbuilding Society (STG), special committee "Shipbuilding History "
- Working group "Ship database - a joint project of the STG and the German Maritime Museum
- Prof. Dr. Nowacki, TU Berlin
- Technical University of Berlin for the purpose of processing the estate of the former Experimental Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Shipbuilding Berlin (VWS),
- AHA Working Group Hamburg Archives, Hamburg
- German Water History Society , Siegburg
- Federal Association of German Inland Shipping, Duisburg
- BG Verkehr , Hamburg
- Water and shipping authorities in Lauenburg, Uelzen and Magdeburg
- DNVGL (formerly Germanischer Lloyd), Hamburg
We work closely with other institutions in mutual coordination:
- Internationales Maritime Museum , Peter Tamm sen. Foundation, Hamburg
- Hamburg Maritime Foundation
- Office of the Stecknitz drivers Lübeck
- Lueneburg Salt Museum
- Working group "mare Czech" in Decin, CZ
- Publishing house "knoll maritim" Berlin
- B. Dettmer shipping company, Bremen
- Maritime Museum Working Group, Regensburg
- Museum of German Inland Shipping , Duisburg
- Henrichenburg ship lift industrial museum, Dortmund
- Kehdinger Küstenschifffahrts-Museum , Wischhafen
- Förderkreis Kulturdenkmal Stecknitzfahrt e. V., Bäk (Ratzeburg)
- State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation, Greifswald State Archives.
Sources and web links
- Dittmer, Bernd; Hinsch, Werner: Elbe shipping archive; 2019 Association for the promotion of the Lauanburg Elbe Shipping Museum
- https://www.herzogtum-lauenburg.de/a-elbschifffahrtsarchiv
- Rafting on the Elbe: https://raddampfer-kaiser-wilhelm.de/buch-3.html
- Hydrofoils of the Schertel-Sachsenberg System - A German Development: [2]
- Elbe shipping archive [3]