Ferry line F10

BVG ferry line F10 Wannsee – Kladow

BVG ferry line F10 in Alt-Kladow, operated by
Stern- und Kreisschiffahrt

		Wannsee S-Bahn station
		Wannsee
		Alt-Kladow

The ferry line F10 is a ferry connection of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) on the Großer Wannsee in Berlin . In 1892, the Spree-Havel-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Stern opened a ferry service for the first time between the Berlin district of Wannsee (today's Steglitz-Zehlendorf district ) and the Kladow district ( Spandau district ).

history

Start of BVG passenger shipping on the Wannsee

The passenger shipping of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) was launched in 1944. Due to a lack of fuel and tires during the war, bus route 34 (now 134) from Pichelsberg to Kladow had to be closed. As spare traffic on June 26, 1944 two ferry lines were (for bus fare) with 16 of shipping lines leased vessels furnishings: Line 1 reversed from Kladow to Wannsee (3.8 km) in 17 minutes and the line 2 upside of Kladow to Stößenseebrücke / Heerstraße (9.1 kilometers) in 65 minutes. A few days later, on July 5th, lines 1 and 2 were merged. The ferry line now ran from the Stößenseebrücke to Wannsee with the landing stages Schildhorn , Akademie (later Gatow ), bathing meadow, Gatow (later Fliegerhorst), Kladow , Heckeshorn .

The ferries ran every 30 minutes between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m. In October 1944, due to staff shortages, the clock had to be reduced to 120 minutes on Sundays and to one hour during the week. Between Christmas 1944 and February 9, 1945, the traffic on the ferry lines had to be stopped for the first time because the Havel was frozen over. Because of the heavy fighting in Berlin, shipping again ceased between April 20 and May 31, 1945. Before the end of the war, 24 ships last operated, after the end of the war only a third of them. The fare was 20 pfennigs.

In the summer of 1945, the Heckeshorn pier was shut down because ammunition had been sunk there at the end of the war, and in February 1946 the Schildhorn station was also closed due to a lack of passengers. In July 1946 two ships were confiscated, so that traffic between Kladow and Heerstr. had to be stopped, in October 1946 traffic was resumed, at the beginning of 1947 the BVG finally had only five ships left, so that every 90 minutes could be operated.

Development of today's BVG ferry Wannsee – Kladow

During the blockade in 1948/49 there were again two lines that ran separately between the Stößenseebrücke and the Gatower bathing meadow and between Kladow and Wannsee. In 1949 a ship ran every hour between Wannsee and Kladow and every two hours between Kladow and the Stößenseebrücke.

On October 3, 1949, the Stößenseebrücke-Kladow section was given up. The Kladow-Wannsee ferry has been running every hour since that day until today. In May 1956 the ferry line was taken over by the Stern- und Kreisschiffahrt and is operated on behalf of the BVG at the VBB tariff.

Since June 2, 1991, the ferry has had the line designation Fähre F10 . It runs every hour on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. (in winter until 6 p.m.), on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (in winter until 4 p.m.). Sometimes longer in the main season.

Since January 20, 2014, a new 44.70 meter long and 8.02 meter wide passenger ship named Wannsee with a low-emission diesel engine has been in service. It was built in the DIW Deutsche Industriewerke GmbH shipyard in Berlin-Spandau. The mean draft is 1.20 meters. The ship is approved for 300 passengers (152 seats). Thanks to its hydraulically extendable ramps, it is barrier-free in contrast to the previously used ships Kohlhase (24 meters long, built in 1954) and Lichterfelde (36 meters long, built in 1896). However, there are no more outside seats on the new ferry.

The once planned Wannsee – Kladow car ferry

In 1957, Karl Kittel (who later operated the Tegelort ↔ Hakenfelde ferry ) applied for a car ferry from Scabellstrasse at Beelitzhof (Wannsee district) to Kladow. He wanted to build a 160 m² ship for 12-14 vehicles or 250-300 passengers for 100,000 DM . The ferry price should be two DM per car, one DM for a moped and 30 pfennigs per person. Since the storage space for the waiting cars was too small and the ferry service would probably have become unprofitable, Kittel changed his plan and wanted to set up a ferry between Kladow and the Schwanenwerder Bridge. He had planned a boat called “Christa” for 20 cars, the crossing should cost 1.50 DM. The application was rejected by the district office because the ferries should have passed through a nature reserve. In 1967 and 1983 there were renewed applications for such a car ferry. In 1986, the Tegel ferry operator Wolfgang Burchadi planned to set up a wagon ferry to Wannsee, but this project also failed.

use

According to the VBB survey from 2016, the ferry connection is used as follows (passengers per day):

direction	Mon-Fri	Sat	So
S Wannsee - Alt-Kladow	733	831	1563
Alt-Kladow - S Wannsee	681	820	1354

The free ride for disabled is possible here and on the other BVG ferries.

Picture gallery

The Kohlhase, formerly used as a ferry on the line

The Lichterfelde - put into service as Lubeca in 1896 , modernized for BVG ferry traffic in 1959/1960, in use until 2013

The Wannsee ferry at the Wannsee pier

literature

Karl-Heinz Schreck: Ferries in the Berlin West area . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter , year 1986, issues 4, 5, 6, 7
Wolfgang Kramer, Sigurd Hilkenbach: Typically Berlin - A BVG portrait . Edited by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), 1987.

Web links

Ferries on the Havel - BahnInfo Berlin
Ferry line F10 on Berlin.de

References and comments

↑ Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt on the Spree and Havel . In: Berlin contributions to the history of technology and industrial culture, series of publications by the Museum for Transport and Technology, Vol. 10, p. 108. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann GmbH, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87584-253-7 .
↑ Press release, January 10, 2014. BVG
↑ Printed matter 18/13468. (PDF) Berlin House of Representatives, February 23, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018 .
↑ Ferries in Berlin with the severely handicapped ID, accessed on November 9, 2019.

[1] Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt on the Spree and Havel . In: Berlin contributions to the history of technology and industrial culture, series of publications by the Museum for Transport and Technology, Vol. 10, p. 108. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann GmbH, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87584-253-7 .

[2] Press release, January 10, 2014. BVG

[3] Printed matter 18/13468. (PDF) Berlin House of Representatives, February 23, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018 .

[4] Ferries in Berlin with the severely handicapped ID, accessed on November 9, 2019.