Hohenklingen (ship)

Hohenklingen

Ship data flag  Switzerland Württemberg   other ship names Christoph (1872–1877) Mömpelgard (1877–1903) Ship type Passenger ship home port Schaffhausen Owner Swiss Steamboat Company (1872–1903: Kgl. Württ. State Railways) Shipyard Escher, Wyss & Cie , Zurich Commissioning 1870 Decommissioning October 15, 1957 Whereabouts Scrapped

Ship dimensions and crew length 44.19 m ( Lüa ) width 8.4 m Draft Max. 1.07 m displacement 124  t

Machine system Machine performance 210 hp (154 kW) Top speed 12.4 kn (23 km / h)

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 320

The Hohenklingen was a smooth-deck steamer and with 87 years of operation to this day the longest-serving passenger ship on Lake Constance .

history

After the smooth-deck steamer Rheinfall sank in 1869 as a result of a boiler explosion , the Swiss Steamboat Company Untersee und Rhein ordered the new Hohenklingen building for the shipping lines on Untersee and Rhine . The home port of the new ship was Schaffhausen , named after Hohenklingen Castle . But as early as 1872 the Hohenklingen was sold to the Royal Württemberg State Railways , after the Baden State Railways again served the submarine lines and the Hohenklingen was therefore no longer needed.

The new home port Friedrichshafen from the now served by the Württemberg Duke in Christoph renamed ship primarily as a cargo vessel for the transport of goods to and from Switzerland. The ship's name was used from 1877 for the first Wuerttemberg full saloon steamer Christoph , which gave the former Hohenklingen its third name Mömpelgard after the Wuerttemberg County .

In 1901 the ship was initially rented by the Swiss Steamboat Company as a replacement for the smaller and weaker Wilhelm and bought back two years later. The ship received its original home port again and was renamed Hohenklingen . On October 15, 1957, the longest-serving passenger ship on Lake Constance was scrapped in Kressbronn .

One incident in her long career was a collision with the smooth deck steamer Mainau on May 24, 1912. On a November evening in 1921, the Hohenklingen ran into a gravel bank on the way to Reichenau Island . She wasn't released until the next day. On the same evening, the city ​​of Radolfzell , whose passengers on the Reichenau would have had the option of changing over to the Hohenklingen , also ran aground. This ship was also stuck on a gravel bank all night.

The successor of the Hohenklingen was the motor ship Stein am Rhein , the ship's bell of the Hohenklingen is on the Thurgau .

Web links

• Hohenklingen at Bodenseeschifffahrt.de

Footnotes

1. ^ Karl F. Fritz: Adventure steamboat trip on Lake Constance. 2nd Edition. Multi-Media-Verlag Hinze, Meersburg 1990, ISBN 3-927484-00-8 , p. 70 f.