Johann Hinrich Wichern (ship, 1962)

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Johann Hinrich Wichern
The Johann Hinrich Wichern
The Johann Hinrich Wichern
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
home port Mannheim
Shipyard Ebert shipyard, Neckarsteinach
Launch May 1962
Ship dimensions and crew
length
12 m ( Lüa )
displacement 20  t
Machine system
Top
speed 		11 kn (20 km / h)

The Johann Hinrich Wichern is a motor ship that has been used in the ports of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen on the Rhine since May 1962 by the Protestant ship chaplaincy to look after inland waterwaymen .

history

An evangelical ship's chaplaincy has existed since 1913. However, it was interrupted during the National Socialist era and only resumed in 1951. Up until the 1950s, inland boatmen lay in the Mannheim harbor on weekends and were able to visit the church. After that, the unloading and loading times were so short that the skippers hardly ever come ashore. For this reason, the Johann Hinrich Wichern , named after Johann Hinrich Wichern , the founder of the Inner Mission of the Evangelical Church, who is also the initiator of the ship's pastoral care , is used to visit the ships and for baptisms and weddings of the ship's families. The boat , which has a maximum speed of 11  knots , weighs 12 tons and is 12 meters long, was built at the Ebert shipyard in Neckarsteinach until May 1962 . In the year of the 50th anniversary in 2012, it had 43,122 operating hours in the logbook .

The ship belongs to the Hafenkirche Mannheim in the Mannheim district of Jungbusch , which is part of the city municipality of Hafen-Konkordien. The port of Mannheim as a whole is the second largest German inland port. The ship is underway at least twice a week and is looked after by 15 volunteer boatmen.

The previous boat, the Wichern I , had a steel cable accident in the Ludwigshafen harbor in 1958, capsized and sank within a few seconds. People were not harmed in the sinking.

See also

literature

  • Ulrich Schäfer: 50 Years of the Church on the Water - The History of Ship's Pastoral Care Mannheim-Ludwigshafen 1951–2001 . Mannheim 2001.
  • Ulrich Schäfer: 50 years of the Harbor Church for God's Mercy . Mannheim 2003.
  • Udo Wennemuth: History of the Protestant Church in Mannheim . Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 3-7995-0930-5 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Hinrich Wichern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hafenkirche Mannheim: Schifferseelsorge , accessed on July 8, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c Klaus Schüller: Chapel with keel. Mannheim: The "Johann Hinrich Wichern" has been traveling on behalf of the Lord for 50 years - on the Rhine and Neckar. The floating church goes there for the evangelical ship's pastoral care. in Die Rheinpfalz of July 3, 2012, page 04_LSPE