Elbe shipping archive

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Elbe shipping archive
Data
place Lauenburg
Art
Shipping archive
opening 1974
operator
Association for the promotion of the Lauenburger Elbschiffahrtsmuseum eV
Website
Elbe shipping archive [1]
Location of the archive (created with the help of OpenStreetMap)

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.

Knot table of the Geesthacht shipping company W. Holert in the Elbe shipping archive

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%.

Drawing “chain steamer for the Upper Elbe” from the archive

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.
Half-models of the type Karl Vortisch and Theodor Beyer in the archive

collaboration

The Lauenburg Elbe Shipping Archive has been working constructively with the following institutions, associations and people for many years:

We work closely with other institutions in mutual coordination:

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