Johann Strauss (ship)

Johann Strauss

Ship data flag  Austria other ship names Carl Ludwig (1853–1938) Grein (1938–1945) Ship type Passenger ship Shipyard Old furnace (Budapest) Launch 1853

Ship dimensions and crew length 68.38 m ( Lüa ) width 15.85 m Draft Max. 1.2 m

Machine system machine Steam engine Machine performance 650 PS (478 kW)

The Johann Strauss is a former steamship of the Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft (DDGS).

history

The Johann Strauss was built in 1853 in the Alt-Ofen (Obuda) shipyard in Budapest. The client was the First Danube Steamship Company. The ship was originally called Carl Ludwig and, together with the sister ships Hildegarde , Ferdinand Max , Elisabeth and Josef Carl, was the largest type of Danube ship of the time and was intended for regular services with a capacity of 1400 people and 11 cabins. The original Carl Ludwig is the only surviving ship in this early fleet. She is 68.38 m long, 15.85 m wide and has a maximum draft of 1.20 m. The dimensions of the series were such that the ships could sail the Danube from Regensburg to Sulina in the Danube Delta. It was driven by a steam engine with 650 HP from Escher Wyß & Cp from Zurich via two side paddle wheels.

From 1938 the Carl Ludwig was called Grein . After a Johann Strauss built in 1913 was destroyed by a bomb in 1945, its intact drive was built into the Grein , which now had 740 hp from a horizontal double expansion engine , and from then on the ship was called Johann Strauss . This ship was retired in 1972 after a drive shaft broke in 1971.

Reuse

DFS Johann Strauss, Danube Canal berth , August 1989

Then it was used as a restaurant and as a party ship, for which essential parts were expanded and the ship was heavily redesigned. In 1974 the innkeeper Ronesch bought the ship, but his efforts to run it as a restaurant on the river kilometer in 1921 failed. The later owner was the Brandner company in Wallsee . The latter sold the ship in 1979 to the brewery zum Kuchlbauer , which used it as a restaurant in Regensburg between 1980 and 1985, not far from the Iron Bridge . The Wigast brought the ship back to Vienna in 1985, where it lay on the right bank of the Danube Canal (km 6.150) from February 27, 1986 , later under changing owners and tenants.

At the end of November 2017 it became public that the City of Vienna had set the owner a deadline to remove the ship and that this deadline had already passed. Norbert Weber, ex- Copa-Cagrana tenant and now named Norbert Michael Waldenburg, stated that he was no longer the direct owner. The City of Vienna intends to dismantle the chimney and wheelhouse in order to be able to tow the ship under bridges, is reckoning with costs of € 100,000 and intends to auction the ship if the owner does not pay for it. In December 2017 the ship was relocated to the port of Freudenau . An auction planned for March 1, 2018 was postponed due to objections to the enforcement procedure. At the auction on May 4, 2018, the starting price was 22,150 euros. In the end, the ship was auctioned for 22,568 euros in Slovakia for scrapping.

Trivia

Some scenes from the movie Before Sunrise were shot on the ship.

Web links

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

• Johann Strauss on donau-schiffahrt.at from Sonnburg Events

Footnotes

1. ↑ Historical fleet list of the DDGS ( Memento of the original dated December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Last voyage for party ship orf.at, November 30, 2017, accessed November 30, 2017.
3. ↑ Valuation report dated May 9, 2016
4. ↑ orf.at: party ship towed from the Danube Canal . Article dated December 15, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017.
5. ↑ Party ship is finally auctioned orf.at, May 4, 2018, accessed May 4, 2018.