Gnattenberg shipyard
The Gnattenberg shipyard was a shipyard on the Oste in Bremervörde . It was founded around 1830 by the ship's carpenter Diedrich Steffens.
history
In the early days of the shipyard up to 1840, around ten river ships were delivered. There were mostly 1/2 dog and 1 dog peat barges . The 1/2 Hunt peat barges were mainly used in the ship ditches and bog canals, which were also used for drainage. So-called folding ropes made it possible to pass the loaded peat barges without any problems. The 1-Hunt peat barges transported peat via Hamme , Bever and the Oste as well as the Oste-Hamme Canal, completed in 1790, to Bremervörde, where the peat was loaded in Besanewer and transported to Hamburg .
The shipyard was enlarged in the 1850s as shipping traffic increased significantly. Around 5,000 ships entering the Oste were registered by the customs ship on the Elbe in front of the Oste, of which around 1,000 ships called at Bremervörde. During this time, the Gnattenberg shipyard mainly carried out repairs on the Ewern approaching the Bremervörde , which brought grain, vegetables, tobacco and bricks from the brickworks in Kehdingen until 1900 . As they ran out, they were loaded with wood, glass products , wool and wax alongside peat . In addition to ship repairs, the demand for new ships increased and more and more wooden ewer was designed and built.
The ship's carpenter Carsten Breuer was Steffen's successor and continued the construction of mizzenewers, which mainly drove on the Oste, Elbe and Weser . Other shipyard owners were Gottfried Gustav Rolka, Claudius Otto Dose and Claus Wilhelm Steffens from Geversdorf , who took over the shipyard from 1897.
End of the yard
The creation and the end of the shipyard is a result of the shift in traffic . Around 4,500 Ewer loads of peat and 300 Ewer loads of wood left the port of Bremervörde in 1875, mainly over the Elbe in the direction of Hamburg. The competition from British hard coal was already noticeable, however, and hard coal as a fuel instead of wood and peat reduced shipping to the East and with it the need for repairs to ships. The expansion of rail and road also led to a shift in traffic for incoming loads and thus for shipping to the port of Bremervörde. The transition from wooden shipbuilding to steel shipbuilding led to the fact that the wooden mizzen were hardly in demand in the new shipbuilding and sealed the end of the shipyard.
literature
- Rainer Brandt: Ships - built in Bremervörde. (P. 155) In: Elke Loewe, Wolf-Dietmar Stock (ed.): The Oste from the source to the mouth. Atelier Im Bauernhaus 2007, ISBN 3881323031 .