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Brandenburg Navy

The Große Jacht was a ship of the Brandenburg Navy , which Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg served as a yacht. The ship was recreated for the Brandenburg State Garden Show 2009 in Oranienburg as part of a project to care for the unemployed called Sehnsucht .

Big yacht (1679-1721)

The large yacht was built from 1678 to 1679 at the shipyard of Gillis C. Peckelhering in Kolberg, based on the model of a yacht of the Dutch governor Prince Willem III. built by Orange . She was considered a good sailor and was initially stationed in the Baltic Sea port of Pillau . From there she made trips in 1693 to Amsterdam , on the Lower Rhine to Emden and later to London . The yacht reached Berlin via Elbe and Havel in 1698 , before returning to Emden in 1700. It remained there, since 1701 under the flag of the Kingdom of Prussia , until it was sold in 1721. Later it became the Great Yacht , also New Yacht , Gilded Yacht and Ceurvortl. Called a yacht , wrecked.

A picture of the ship has survived, based on a painting by the Dutch painter Lieve Verschuier , which depicts the electoral fleet in 1684. In the painting the big yacht is in the center of the picture.

Ship data

  • single-masted sailing yacht based on the Dutch model
  • Year of construction: 1678–1679 in Kolberg ( Pomerania )
  • Length: approx. 23 m
  • Width: approx. 6.5 m
  • Draft: approx. 1.6 m
  • Armament: up to 10 cannons (depending on the equipment level)
  • Crew: up to 50 men (depending on the purpose)

Replica longing (since 2009)

From 2007 to 2009 the replica of the large yacht for the Brandenburg State Garden Show 2009 in Oranienburg was carried out as part of a project to care for the unemployed . Since there were no blueprints of the original, the yacht was built according to historical images. For the duration of the state horticultural show, the replica, christened Sehnsucht , was anchored from April 25 to October 18, 2009 in the harbor at the park of Oranienburg Castle . The ship could not be entered there for security reasons.

After the state horticultural show, the longing was transferred to the Kurbrandenburg Marine Association for a symbolic amount. He has set himself the goal of explaining the beginnings of Prussian naval history to visitors, which began with the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and fell back on the throne with his successors. In order to fulfill this association's mandate, the association also conducts round trips with the historic ship. Longing lies at anchor in the service port of Oranienburg. Members of the association are on board every Tuesday from 10 a.m. from May to October and can also guide interested parties to any other possible appointment on the ship after prior notification.

Technical specifications

  • Type: Dutch state yacht
  • Length: 17.95 m waterline
  • Width: 4.90 m
  • Draft: 1.10 m
  • Material: oak, Siberian larch, oregano pine (Douglas fir)
  • Construction period: 2007–2009 in Malz near Oranienburg (construction period 18 months)
  • Construction costs: € 500,000
  • Builder: Dieter Falke
  • Weight: 32 tons, including 10 tons of counterweight
  • Sails: 130 m² sail area on a 14.5 m high mast
  • Drive: 2 Volvo Penta D2 engines with 55 HP each
  • Gearbox: 2x1: 2.73 hydraulic
  • Armament: 8 wooden cannons

literature

  • Rolf Hoeckel / Robert Loef / Hans Szymanski: Jacht "Große Jacht" 1678 , in: Lothar Eich (ed.): Cracks of ships of the 16th and 17th centuries , 5th edition Rostock (VEB Hinstorff Verlag) 1979, p. 43.

Web links

  • The golden yacht. on: oranienburg-erleben.de
  • The reconstruction website of the Kurbrandenburgischer Marineverein Oranienburg, state yacht "Sehnsucht"
  • Big yacht. on: panorama-maritim.de (private homepage with information according to archival sources)

literature

  • Hans Szymanski: Brandenburg-Prussia at sea, 1605–1815. Leipzig 1939.
  • Very royal. In: Berliner Zeitung. April 14, 2009.
  • Showpiece for the castle harbor. In: Märkische Allgemeine. March 27, 2009. [1]