Ferry connection Brunsbüttel – Cuxhaven

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Ferry landing in Cuxhaven

The Brunsbüttel – Cuxhaven ferry route connected Dithmarschen with the Elbe-Weser triangle over the Lower Elbe under the management of various shipping companies. Like the Elbe ferry Glückstadt – Wischhafen , which runs further up the Elbe , it connected the northern German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony .

history

In the 18th century, pilot boats provided an irregular connection between Brunsbüttel on the north bank and Cuxhaven on the south bank of the Elbe . The first independent ferry service was set up on February 26, 1904 by the North German Steamship Company . After a few months, the company went bankrupt. On April 3, 1908, the Cuxhaven-Brunsbüttel-Dampfer AG started operations. Greten Handorf from Cuxhaven succeeded in setting up a new line in 1919. On October 1, 1938, the Hapag sea ​​bathing service took over the line. The Greifen shipping company Brunsbüttel followed later, and the ferry Seelotse GmbH in the 1960s .

1969-1981

From May 1, 1969 to July 1, 1981, the Elbe ferry Cuxhaven – Brunsbüttel was operated with the two green / white car ferries from Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein , from May 1, 1974, managed by HADAG .

The Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf from 1964 near Cuxhaven in 1999

1999-2001

In 1999 the Bremen shipowner Egon Herbert Harms tried to operate the connection with three ferries. The ships were named Hinrich-Wilhelm Kopf , Jochen Steffen and Wilhelm Kaisen . The connection had to be discontinued after two years due to a lack of profitability.

2015-2017

The ferry Grete of the Elb-Link shipping company

From August 20, 2015, the Elb-Link shipping company operated the ferry route between the Steubenhöft in Cuxhaven and the ferry terminal in the western area of ​​Brunsbüttel with two double-ended ferries (built in 2010) of the type MM 90 FC . The two 98 m long and 18 m wide ferries built at the Norwegian shipyard Fiskerstrand BLRT AS have a draft of 4 m. They are measured at 5233  GT , have a diesel-electric drive and run at up to 16 knots. It took them 70 minutes for the 25 km route. According to the 2015/2016 autumn and winter timetable, they drove up to nine times a day in both directions.

The subsidiary of the Estonian shipping company Saaremaa Shipping Company renamed the ferries previously used in Estonia on August 19, 2015 in Cuxhaven with the name Grete and in Brunsbüttel with the name Anne-Marie . It was planned to use another ferry on the route from 2017. In the first six weeks (until the end of September 2015) the ferries carried 76,000 passengers, 15,600 cars , 877 trucks , 800 mobile homes and 9,500 two-wheelers.

According to a report by Norddeutscher Rundfunk from August 5, 2016, the ferry operator had financial problems. There was suspicion of bankruptcy, and several creditors had tried to force the Elb-Link shipping company to disclose its financial situation by threatening imprisonment.

At the beginning of March 2017, the ferry connection was discontinued after only one ferry had previously been used. The shipping company applied for bankruptcy on March 6th.

May to November 2017

On April 12, 2017, the Elb-Link Fährgesellschaft mbH project company was founded in order to resume ferry operations on May 22, 2017. In fact, the first ferry left on May 25, 2017.

On October 9, 2017, operations were stopped again after the managing director of the operating company had pointed out in a press release that the operation was not economically viable in the long term. As a result, it became known that the owner company of the ferry had forbidden further use of the only ferry, as there was no longer a valid rental agreement from September 30th. The ship owners expect a sustainable financial offer from the operating company, which cannot be given. The operating company was looking for financially strong investors and / or public funding, for which the affected districts and cities saw no possibility. On November 27, the operating company filed for bankruptcy. In 2018 the ferries were sold to Canada.

As of 2018

In autumn 2018, the newly founded company Elbeferry GmbH announced that it would resume ferry operations in spring 2019 with the Fanafjord ferry from Norway . The planned connection has not yet been established.

literature

  • Karl B. Kühne : The history of the ship connections Cuxhaven with Schleswig-Holstein . Ed .: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (=  Yearbook of the Men of the Morning Star - celebration of the 100th anniversary . No. 61 (1982) ). Ditzen Verlag, Bremerhaven 1982, p. 413-424 (468 pp.).
  • Peter Bussler: Historisches Stadtlexikon für Cuxhaven (=  special publications of the Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern . Volume 36 ). Cuxhaven 2002, ISBN 3-931771-36-9 .
  • Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Ships and Cuxhaven . Wilhelm Heidsiek Verlag, Cuxhaven 2012, ISBN 978-3-935459-23-5 .
  • Peter Bussler: The shipowner Greten Handorf from Cuxhaven. The original in Cuxhaven died in January 75 years ago . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 828 . Nordsee-Zeitung , Bremerhaven December 2018, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.1 MB ; accessed on August 24, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Ferry connection Brunsbüttel – Cuxhaven  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bussler, Stadtlexikon, p. 100
  2. ↑ Kühne, p. 414
  3. ↑ melt head, p. 80
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  5. ^ M / S Lower Saxony. In: faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved March 12, 2016 .
  6. ^ M / S Schleswig Holstein. In: faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved March 12, 2016 .
  7. ^ Arnold Kludas : One Hundred Years of HADAG Ships 1888–1988 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-7822-0446-8 , p.  46 .
  8. ^ M / S Princess Elisabeth. In: faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved March 12, 2016 .
  9. ^ M / S Princess Anne-Marie. In: faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved March 12, 2016 .
  10. ↑ M / S Naiads. In: faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved March 12, 2016 .
  11. ^ Cuxhaven-Brunsbüttel: The new Elbe ferry. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . July 23, 1999, accessed March 12, 2016 .
  12. ↑ "Anne-Marie" and "Grete" connect the banks of the Elbe. (No longer available online.) In: Website Norddeutscher Rundfunk . August 19, 2015, archived from the original on April 6, 2016 ; accessed on August 24, 2019 .
  13. ↑ a b In: Kieler Nachrichten. October 5, 2015, p. 8.
  14. ↑ Burkhard Ilschner: Can the new ferry Cuxhaven – Brunsbüttel survive? With "Grete" and "Anne-Marie" under the (initially) Estonian flag over the Lower Elbe . In: Waterkant . No. 3 / 30th Volume, September 2015, ISSN  1611-1583 , p. 19-20 ( digitized [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Frank Binder, Peter Kleinort: Elb-Link is apparently facing the end . In: Daily port report . March 1, 2017, ISSN  2190-8753 , p. 4 ( digitized version [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  16. ^ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Elb-Link: Shipwreck of a vision . In: Daily port report . March 6, 2017, ISSN  2190-8753 , p. 14–15 ( digitized version [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Thomas Sassen: The future of the ferry line is still uncertain. In: Website Cuxhavener Nachrichten - Niederelbe-Zeitung . March 7, 2017, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Ralf Pöschus: Elb-Link is picking up speed again. In: Website Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag . May 13, 2017. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Karsten Schröder: Elb-Link ferry is running again. In: Website Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag. May 25, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Michael Behrendt: Elbe ferry is threatened again. In: Boyen's media . October 10, 2017, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Elbe ferry temporarily suspended . In: Daily port report . October 10, 2017, ISSN  2190-8753 , p. 2 ( digitized version [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  22. ↑ Gerrit Hencke: Cuxhaven ferry: owner company prohibits further use. In: Website Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag. October 13, 2017, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Elbe ferry Cuxhaven-Brunsbüttel is apparently facing the end again. In: Website Nord24. October 10, 2017, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Elb-Link needs investor · Still no operation · Owners prohibit ferry use . In: Daily port report . October 16, 2017, ISSN  2190-8753 , p. 1 .
  25. ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Elbe ferry remains closed · Owners expect offer . In: Daily port report . October 20, 2017, ISSN  2190-8753 , p. 3 .
  26. ↑ No funding for Elb-Link shipping company: Ferry company on the verge of collapse? In: Website Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag. November 21, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Tobias Stegemann: Final end for Elbe ferry. In: Website Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag. November 27, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Cuxhaven's Greens: More commitment to Elbe ferry necessary. In: Website Cuxhavener Nachrichten - Niederelbe-Zeitung. September 2, 2018, accessed September 26, 2018 .