Junker Jörg (ship)
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The Junker Jörg ex. Theodor Fontane, Viking Fontane is a cabin passenger ship built in 1990/91 for journeys on inland waterways and on the Baltic Sea. The ship was used from 1991 to 2000 as Theodor Fontane for the Cologne-Düsseldorfer . It then drove briefly as Viking Fontane - for Viking River Cruises - on the Moselle , Rhine and Main between Trier and Würzburg , and later on the Elbe between Magdeburg and Mělník . The ship was completely rebuilt and modernized in 2007/08. It is the identical sister ship of the Clara Schumann .
Junker Jörg was Martin Luther's cover name during his time at the Wartburg .
history
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After the fall of the Wall , the Cologne-Düsseldorfer (passenger shipping company) carried out a test trip from Hamburg to Dresden with the Elbe ship St. Caspar from Tours Incomming GmbH in Düsseldorf from June 2 to 7, 1990 in order to open up the Elbe for future river cruises . With the help of the knowledge gained, the shipping company, in cooperation with the propulsion manufacturer Schottel and the shipyard De Biesbosch, planned a cabin passenger ship that should be able to be used even when the water level was low by installing ballast water tanks . After model tests that were carried out in the research institute for inland shipping in Duisburg , an order was placed on July 24, 1990 for two identical ships with 64 passenger cabins each. The keel of the second-built ship under construction number 843 took place in October and was launched on March 30, 1991. From June 6 to June 9, the completed shell was transferred from Amsterdam to Hamburg with Condock III , a self-propelled dock ship , where the final equipment took place in the shipyard pit . From June 14th, the ship drove to Magdeburg on its own , where it would be handed over to Elbe-Kreuzfahrten GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cologne-Düsseldorfer. This started on June 18, without prior ship christening and maiden voyage in the planned service between Magdeburg and Bad Schandau . In the winter months of the year, the Theodor Fontane served as a hotel ship in Dresden.
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As a result of too low ridership pulled the Cologne-Düsseldorf the ship on 30 June 1995 from the Elbkreuzfahrtverkehr and sat there after a new overpass with Condock III from July 29 between Vienna and the IJsselmeer on the Danube , Main , Mosel and Rhine a . The Theodor Fontane was sold to KD Deutsche Flusskreuzfahrten GmbH on August 28, 1997. When Premicon AG became the main shareholder of Köln-Düsseldorfer on March 9, 2000 , Viking River Cruises took over the company's river cruise business, including all ships used there. In April 2001, the new owner moved the ship back to the Elbe, where it was in use until 2007 on the route Lauenburg / Elbe to Ústí nad Labem . In 2008 the ship was again transferred to the Rhine, where it was used between Trier and Nuremberg until 2008. In 2009 the ship was decommissioned in Strasbourg for one year and completely modernized from the end of 2009 to the beginning of 2010. In 2011/12 the deluxe cabins were equipped with French balconies . The ship operated under the name Viking Fontane in 2012 and sailed the Elbe between Magdeburg and Melnik.
In March 2017 the Viking Fontane was sold to Luther Travel Cruises, received a new color scheme and the new name Junker Jörg . Junker Jörg was the code name of Martin Luther , so there is a substantive connection to the former home port of Wittenberg.
The Junker Jörg initially served as a hotel ship in Wittenberg, and since 2018 she has been making cruises on the Elbe as well as on the eastern Baltic coast and on the Oder .
In the meantime the Junker Jörg appears as a ship of the Swiss shipping company Scylla AG .
Equipment and technology
The Junker Jörg is a three-deck cabin ship of the 4-star category with 48 double cabins of 11 m² and 8 deluxe cabins with 15 m² of floor space. All cabins are air-conditioned and each equipped with a shower, telephone and TV set . Separable double beds were set up in the deluxe cabins. Behind the bow thruster room and kitchen is the on-board restaurant on the main deck, which can only be entered from the viewing salon above. In the entrance area of the upper deck there is not only the reception but also an on-board shop. The sun deck amidships behind the wheelhouse was furnished with deck chairs and partially covered seating areas. All decks can be reached via stair lifts, even for disabled passengers.
The ship is propelled by three eight-cylinder diesel engines of the type Deutz AM816 à 400 kW via three Schottel pump jets of the type SPJ 80 II . The bow thruster of the type SPJ 57 , also produced by Schottel, has a 220 kW electric drive. The ship is 94.80 m long, 11.00 m wide. The draft is given as one meter. By filling four trim tanks , which are located in the double floor at the bow and stern, the draft can be increased to a maximum of 1.27 m in low bridges.
literature
- Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Marienhausen 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9
- Stephan Nuding: 175 years of Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG , Schardt Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-89841-035-9
Web links
- Swiss Luther Travel Cruises website
- Skylla AG website with ship data accessed on October 15, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Cologne 2004, p. 849ff.
- ↑ Viking Fontane ( Memento of October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Viking River Cruises (PDF; 832 kB).
- ↑ Irina Steinmann: The hotel ship should go on a cruise: four stars on the water . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
- ^ Hotel ship Junker Jörg | Ship data. Luther Travel Cruises, accessed September 11, 2017 .
- ^ Scylla Ag: MS Junker Jörg. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
- ^ Hotel ship Junker Jörg | Hotel ship Junker Jörg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 11, 2017 ; accessed on September 11, 2017 .