Fermersleben ferry

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former ferry house, 2011

The Fermersleben ferry was a ferry across the Elbe that connected the villages of Fermersleben and Prester . Both villages are now districts of the city of Magdeburg .

history

There was probably a ferry service very early on. During gravel mining between Fermersleben and the Elbe in 1973, in the area of ​​the west bank of today's Salbker See II, the remains of a landing stage, which was probably built before the year 1000, for which a function as a ferry landing stage towards Prester is assumed. The first documented mention of a ferry in Fermersleben goes back to 1105, when the Berge monastery operated a ferry here. There was then no ferry service for longer periods of time. In the period between 1900 and 1910, a crossing between Fermersleben and Prester was set up again. The ferry operation was transferred to Karl Michaelis , who already ran a bathing establishment on the banks of the Elbe. The ferry was rowed and the fare for a one-way trip was 10 pfennigs per person. The last ferrymen were August Michaelis (1858–1933) and his son Paul Michaelis (1887–1979). In 1909/1910 a ferry house was built in which the Michaelis family lived. The one and a half storey building was built in half-timbered construction and the compartments were bricked up. The ferry house is still preserved today, but the half-timbered construction is not visible.

In addition to the ferry, they also ran the Michaelis bathing establishment and a restaurant. The river bathing establishment, housed on another converted former chain steamer, burned down in autumn 1922, but was then rebuilt in 1923/1924. In 1933 Michaelis acquired the Gustav Zeuner chain steamer, which had been decommissioned in 1931, and put it on land. Michaelis ran the inn in this second chain steamer and also housed rowing and paddle boats there. 1942, according to another statement in 1944, the first old chain steamer lying in the Elbe was hit by an incendiary bomb and destroyed. The remaining wood was used to build changing rooms on the Gustav Zeuner. With the deterioration in the quality of the Elbe water and the bathing ban imposed in 1950, the possibility of using it as a bathing establishment ended. However, Paul Michaelis operated boat shelters in the chain steamer for paddle boats, which could be transported to the Elbe by cable car. The use of the chain steamer, on which amusement events also took place on the weekends, experienced another high point in the mid-1960s, but was later discontinued.

The ferry service ended in 1959. The gravestone of the last ferryman, Paul Michaelis, is part of the St. Gertraud lapidarium at the St. Gertraud Church in Salbke .

literature

  • Thomas Rochow, ferryman and true savior of Gustav Zeuner in Magdeburg's Volksstimme on June 25, 2011
  • Heinz Tietge, The Buckau-Fermersleben Water Sports Club , Part 1 1911–1961, Magdeburg 2011, page 14

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Lies , Further excavator finds from the Elbe gravel works Magdeburg-Salbke in excavations and finds - Archaeological reports and information , Volume 20, 1975, Issue 1, Akademie-Verlag Berlin, page 6
  2. ↑ Willy Otto Riecke, Chronicle Prester-Cracau , Magdeburg 1932, page 346
  3. ↑ Heinz Tietge, The Buckau-Fermersleben Water Sports Club , Part 1 1911–1961, Magdeburg 2011, page 14
  4. ↑ Willy Otto Riecke, Chronicle Prester-Cracau , Magdeburg 1932, page 346
  5. ↑ Heinz Tietge, The Buckau-Fermersleben Water Sports Club , Part 1 1911–1961, Magdeburg 2011, page 14
  6. ↑ Thomas Rochow, ferryman and true savior of Gustav Zeuner in Magdeburger Volksstimme from June 25, 2011
  7. ↑ Heinz Tietge, The Buckau-Fermersleben Water Sports Association , Part 1 1911–1961, Magdeburg 2011, page 122 ff.
  8. ↑ Thomas Rochow, ferryman and true savior of Gustav Zeuner in Magdeburger Volksstimme from June 25, 2011

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 51.3 "  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 2.9"  E