Pritzerbe ferry
 Unloading on the Kützkower Ufer
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The Pritzerbe ferry is a ferry connection in the city of Havelsee and the name of the ferry. It connects the district of Pritzerbe and the district of Kützkow belonging to it across the Havel . The ferry is a car ferry that does not move freely and is guided on a chain. The ferry also bears the name Pritzerbe.
history
A ferry connection between the then town of Pritzerbe on the east side of the Havel and Kützkow on the west bank mentioned for the first time in 1368 had existed since 1385 at the latest. This year it was first mentioned in a document. In the early centuries the Fährkähne were first over the Havel punted .
Since the late 18th century, changes of ownership of the ferry were recorded in the land registers of the town of Pritzerbe. In 1788, the ferryman Johann Friedrich Hartwig acquired the rights to the ferry connection from the Royal Chamber of War and Domains in Magdeburg. These rights came to the merchant August Wilhelm Friedrich Hartwig through inheritance in 1818 and to his widow Caroline Friederike, née Hintze, in 1834. She sold her rights in 1855 to the merchant Wilhelm Gottlieb Robert Hartwig. In 1883, the district president of Diesberg approved a chain or cable ferry for the first time. At that time, an annual recognition fee of five Reichsmarks was charged for operating the ferry on a ferry rope . On December 27, 1922, the ferry was sold to the manor owners Gustav von Schnehen from Kützkow and Botho von Knoblauch from Buschow and to the businessman Friedrich Stimming from Pritzerbe in equal shares. On July 3, 1925 the Pritzerbe-Kützkow eV Pritzerbe took over the ferry and on September 7, 1932 the town of Pritzerbe became the owner.
At the end of the Second World War, the existing ferry was blown up by German troops, so that a new ferry had to be procured after the war. The tenants were Wilhelm Schwarz, Fritz Dammasch and Walter Wernsdorf, who worked in three shifts. The new ferry was led on two ropes and pulled with so-called wooden clamps. Towards the end of the 1950s, a motorized ferry was used for the first time, which was powered by a single-cylinder diesel engine until 1990. In connection with an increase in the rent after the ferry was motorized, the leases were given up. The operator was initially the city of Pritzerbe and is now the city of Havelsee. Schwarz and Dammasch later gave up the ferry service, Walter Wernsdorf continued to work as a ferryman in the service of the city of Pritzerbe. In 1991 the ferry was again replaced by a new building from the Genthin shipyard, which is powered by a two-cylinder diesel engine with an output of 30 hp. This motor acts via a coupling on sprockets on a long chain laid across the river. The ferry vehicle pulls itself on this chain over the Havel. A wire rope serves as a guide and safety device. Four ferrymen are currently employed by the municipality. In the summer months with the greatest number of passengers, up to 500 people and 100 vehicles are crossed every day. The dimensions of the ferry are a length of 28 meters, a width of 7.5 meters and a draft of 0.5 meters.
The driving chain
The drive
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The ferry ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 16, 2013.
- ↑ Log of the Pritzerbe ferry . Accessed December 24, 2013.
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 39.8 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 9.6 ″ E