Friedrichshafen (ship, 1952)
_im_Konstanzer_Hafen.jpg) The decommissioned motor ship Friedrichshafen in 2003 under the Imperia in the port of Constance
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The motor ship Friedrichshafen operated as a passenger ship of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) and the Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe (BSB) from 1952 to 2003 on Lake Constance . There it was the first ship to be built after the Second World War. Since 2006 it has been used by the BSB as a work ship.
Prehistory 1945 to 1952
During the Second World War, two Lake Constance steamships were destroyed and three motor ships were badly damaged in air raids . Most of the other ships were in a no longer operational condition due to the at least six years of shutdown due to the fuel shortage. In addition, the French occupation forces confiscated ten motor and five steam ships. Four motor boats came to France as reparations . Scheduled shipping was only sparingly resumed in 1945/46. The three shipyards that were still intact, hampered by the lack of spare parts, auxiliary and operating materials, gradually repaired the ships and removed the gray camouflage paint. In 1951/52 the last damage was repaired and the growing tourism caused increasing numbers of passengers. After the steamships Friedrichshafen and Württemberg were lost in the war , the rebuilt port of Friedrichshafen lacked the necessary ship capacity.
History 1952 to 2006
Two factors favored the decision for the urgently needed new building: On July 1, 1952, responsibility for the White Fleet was transferred from the Südwestdeutsche Eisenbahnen (SWDE) from the occupation to the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) and the Bodan shipyard had free capacity again for the first new building of the post-war period, the Friedrichshafen motor ship . It was named after the relatively young town on Lake Constance, which became famous through the airships of Count Zeppelin . This was also the home port of the ship for 50 years.
Compared to the large motor ships of the 1930s, Friedrichshafen was much smaller than the first motor ships Höri and Mainau at the end of the 1920s in terms of passengers (300), length (38 m) and displacement (120 t) . Like this, it had a twin screw drive. It was designed primarily for special trips on the Upper and Lower Lake. The flat double-half saloon construction with a folding wheelhouse made it possible to pass under the Constance Rhine Bridge and to drive along stretches of the river. This concept was adopted in 1961 for the Reichenau motor ship . In addition to trips to the Untersee as far as Stein am Rhein , those to Rorschach and further on the Old Rhine to Rheineck were very popular. Necessary but no longer profitable repair work led to the closure in 2003 with the intention of selling. In 2006 she was taken out of service as a passenger ship and, as the successor to the Möve work ship, is now back into service as a BSB work ship with its home port of Constance. As such, on January 7, 2010, Friedrichshafen towed the four times larger ship shell of the later Überlingen from the assembly yard in Fußach (the keel was laid in Linz on the Danube) to Friedrichshafen, where the final construction took place in the BSB's own shipyard.
In 2006, the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office tested the Friedrichshafen, along with other ships, for its value as a floating monument . At the beginning of June 2014, the Friedrichshafen was classified as a cultural monument, along with three other ships. The monument value of the youngest of these ships was based on the large proportion of original traditions from the 1950s. The Friedrichshafen will still continue to function as a work ship .
See also
literature
- Dietmar Bönke: paddle wheel and impeller. The shipping of the railway on Lake Constance. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-714-4
- Michael Berg: Motor shipping on Lake Constance under the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in the post-war period. regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-614-6
Web links
- The Friedrichshafen on bodenseeschifffahrt.de
- Josef Siebler in SÜDKURIER on October 28, 2004: White Fleet receives new ship