Karlsruhe (ship, 1937)
Karlsruhe (2012 in Friedrichshafen)
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The motor ship Karlsruhe is a passenger ship on Lake Constance . His area of application in the course is the Obersee and the Überlinger See .
history
The Karlsruhe was commissioned by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the Deggendorf Werft GmbH and Eisenbau built and is the first passenger ship on Lake Constance, which according to the state capital of Baden Karlsruhe the ship's name Karlsruhe carries. At that time, the city was the seat of the Reich Railway Directorate responsible for the home port of Constance . The commissioning took place on April 28, 1937; the ship received the ship's bell of the steamship Baden , which was retired in 1929 . The Karlsruhe was planned as a replacement for the Zaehringen steamship , but after a thorough examination, the 36-year-old town of Konstanz was decommissioned instead and scrapped in 1939. The Zähringen remained in use until 1960 and was scrapped in 1961.
Until the beginning of the war, the Karlsruhe, like the Friedrichshafen almost sister ship Schwaben , was primarily used for KdF special trips. During the Second World War , ship operations were stopped due to a shortage of fuel. After the war the ship served as accommodation for French soldiers in Konstanz until it was released in 1949 .
The Deutsche Bundesbahn , successor to the Deutsche Reichsbahn and owner of Karlsruhe since 1952 , had the ship re-engineered in 1965. In 1994, when the Deutsche Bundesbahn became part of the Deutsche Bahn , the ships and with them Karlsruhe were transferred to Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe GmbH (BSB). Since 1950, the ship has been primarily used for scheduled traffic on the Obersee.
In the winter of 2003/2004 the ship was given a general technical overhaul in the shipyard in Romanshorn . A year later, in winter 2004/2005, the general overhaul of the interior was carried out in BSB's own shipyard in Friedrichshafen. The ship received a wooden paneling trimmed to old. Only the so-called "Karlsruher Stübchen" remained in its original condition. According to the planning of the BSB, the decommissioning is planned from 2017.
The only known shipwreck of the Karlsruhe was the collision with a fishing boat off Friedrichshafen on August 6, 2002, in which a fisherman was killed. His ten-year-old daughter was rescued from the boat by the crew.
See also
literature
- Michael Berg: Motor shipping on Lake Constance under the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in the post-war period . regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-614-6
