Ferry Drösing – Veľké Leváre
The ferry Drösing – Veľké Leváre was a ferry across the March between the places Veľké Leváre in western Slovakia and Drösing in Lower Austria .
history
The ferry had been operating regularly since 1649, with people and carriages being transported to the other side of the March by ferry and boat. The ferryman was also the landlord and ran an inn on both sides of the March. When Ferry was then serving an 8 x 10-foot, iron Plätte on which a horse-drawn wagon load of hay together took place. There was also a boat for up to six people.
The ferry was mainly used by the local population, who owned agricultural land on the other side of the March, as well as by Slovak workers who commuted to Austria. Due to the high frequency, an attempt was made to build a bridge in the 1870s, but the project failed due to funding. There is a document from the years 1887/88 according to which it was possible to transfer 190 people or 16 horses at once or four wagons each with a pair of horses. Until 1902, Austrian doctors also cared for the sick in Veľké and Male Leváre.
After the Second World War , free traffic to Austria was prohibited, with the result that ferry traffic was discontinued in 1945 and the Überfuhrgasthaus was closed. The facilities were dismantled in 1948.
Even today, the place of the former ferry is the end point of Landesstraße 7 , which is also called the Überfuhrstraße in this section .
literature
- Sona Kovacevicova: From Hohenau to Thebes - bridges, ferries and fords over the March river in: Our home, vol. 63, issue 1–1992, p. 25f
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Schloss Hof to Hohenau an der March , on wien-radelt.weebly.com
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 54 ″ N , 16 ° 56 ′ 42 ″ E