Kiebitzberg shipyard
| Kiebitzberg GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1998 |
| Seat | Havelberg, Germany |
| management | Managing directors Mrs. Renate and Mr. Andreas Lewerken |
| Number of employees | 120 |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
| Website | https://kiebitzberg.de/werft/ |
The Kiebitzberg shipyard is an inland shipyard in the Hanseatic city of Havelberg in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
At the beginning of the 1980s, Andreas Lewerken founded a workshop for therapeutic and didactic wooden toys on the "Kiebitzberg" in Kuhlhausen, near Havelberg , under the name "Holzspielzeug vom Kiebitzberg". After the fall of the Wall, wooden toys were no longer in demand, so a new company was founded under the name "Kiebitzberg Carpentry, Crafts and Design", and furniture was built using the existing and new woodworking machines. Growing orders on hand and increasing numbers of employees led to a relocation under the new name "Kiebitzberg Möbelwerkstätten" in the commercial area of the city of Havelberg in 1996.
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Two years later, the 300-year-old Havelberg shipyard history came to an end, as the Electoral Havelberg shipyard was founded here as early as 1687 . It was replaced by the Royal Sea Shipyard around 100 years later . Both shipyards built large hulls that were towed across the flat Elbe to Hamburg with the help of "camels". Here the masts were put in place, the ship rigged and handed over to the customers.
VEB Binnenwerften worked here in Havelberg from 1953 until the fall of the Wall, and after unsuccessful attempts at privatization, Andreas Lewerken bought the inland shipyard from the trust. The shipyard's 28,000 m² site was gutted, buildings rebuilt and rebuilt, and the first projects arose alongside furniture workshops. In addition to minor ship repairs and steel work, carpentry work was carried out and kitchen countertops, vanity units and design objects were built and delivered for customers throughout Germany.
Andreas Lewerken began with the interior design of the ship, followed by repair orders and later the construction of new special ships. The first new ship was delivered in 2001, and what started out as three employees has now grown to over 40.
After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter and studying, the son Florian Lewerken took over the boat and floating dock production. In 2005, then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visited the shipyard.
In 2007 the hotel “Schmokenberg” in Havelberg, which was in dire need of renovation, was bought and by 2012 the company's own Hotel Kiebitzberg was created from it.
From 2008, the "Untere Havelwasserstraße" was closed from 104.20 (Rathenower Havel) to km 145.06 near Havelberg for commercial shipping. Only passenger ships up to 41 m long and 5.10 wide, government vehicles and sports boats are permitted. The background to this is that due to its important supraregional importance, this route has been declared a near-natural river and meadow landscape in the north German lowlands that is worthy of protection and has been permanently secured for species and biotope protection.
In 2016 the Kiebitzberg Group opened branches in Leipzig and Rostock and is now represented in Germany with 5 locations and around 110 employees. In addition to furniture construction, the focus is on the construction of jetties, boat garages and ships with a focus on catamarans, aluminum processing with water jet cutting and increasingly solar and battery ships.
New shipbuilding
The traditional yacht Adelante and the catamaran Antonia were the first to be built . In 2006, the Positano, the first seagoing ship from the Kiebitzberg shipyard, was delivered to the Belis shipping company . The paddle steamer Baltic Star for the Baltic Sea coast and the Hanseat port launch for the Port of Hamburg followed in 2008 .
Based on classic fishing trawlers, the 15m luxury yacht Anassa for inland and coastal waters was developed together with the owners in 2008 . The keel was laid on October 27, 2008 and in 2009 the ship was christened and handed over to the owner. In 2009 the Flying Dutchman , a water convertible for the Berlin Spree and the Landwehr Canal, was delivered. The keel was laid on October 27, 2008 and on September 19, 2009 the ship was christened and delivered.
In 2010 the water convertible Astana was given to Dr. Akobir Tursunov, who represented the client ENRC Kamek from Kazakhstan. With the Esil , a sister ship to Kazakhstan followed in June. On behalf of the WSA Eberswalde, two 14 meter ramming frames followed for hydraulic fortification work. The PonTOM Cabrio , an aluminum catamaran with a fully glazed operator's platform and an aft cabin with a large pantry and a luxurious owner's bathroom , was created for the Kibitzberghotel . It can be chartered by the hour or for day trips.
A total of 17 ships had been built by 2019, including a solar houseboat, two small electrically powered ferries for Iceland, a small research ship, a trawler and many floating jetties and work platforms.
Suncat 120
Under the type designation Suncat 120 , the shipyard is building two (as of January 2019) innovative solar passenger ships for 180 passengers. With a width of 7.0 meters, these measure 36.50 meters in length and have a displacement of around 80 tons. The draft is 0.9 meters, the propulsion power of the type ship is twice 45 kilowatts. The keel was laid on August 29, 2018. The aluminum catamaran was launched into the water with a truck-mounted crane, and in December 2019 the ship was delivered to the Berlin shipping company Solar Circle Line .
The solar ship with electric motors for propeller drive receives the necessary power from the batteries installed in the floats and is equipped with 48 solar modules that were laid on the upper deck. It cost around € 2 million and is used for tours, conferences or parties. Another structurally identical ship for the same customer is to be delivered in 2020.The batteries will be charged during the journey via the solar modules installed on the roof of the boat and from the fast charging station in Treptower Park. One charge is enough for ten to twelve hours of driving.
At the beginning of December 2019, the Suncat 120 was prepared for the transfer from Havelberg to Berlin-Treptow. The ascent was interrupted after four locks to spend the night halfway in the fishing and shipping village of Pritzerbe near Brandenburg on December 12th. The batteries were then charged.
The client, the company Solar Circle Line, was founded as a new subsidiary by Solar Waterworld , which has been developing solar ships since 2001. It is supposed to operate the solar-electric passenger ships in Berlin. The star and Kreisschiffahrt is a minority shareholder with 24.9%.
These ships are used by the Solar Circle Line, the first purely solar-powered passenger ship shipping company. Tim Schultze (CEO SolarWaterWorld, among others) and Andreas Behrens (the two managing directors of the start-up Solar Circle Line founded in 2016) including managing director, Stern- und Kreisschiffahrt) said.
The background for these new “green” Berlin passenger ships powered by solar power is the efforts of the Berlin Senate to have Berlin shipping companies reduce their CO 2 emissions by 30 percent and their diesel emissions by 90 percent by 2030 . In spring 2018, the Association for Electric Shipping and Charging Infrastructure was founded in Berlin.
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Awards
- In 1999 Andreas Lewerken was awarded the “Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Enterprises”
- 2010 “Company of the Year” in the state of Saxony-Anhalt
- 2011 "Company of the Month February 2011"
- 2013 “Stars for Saxony-Anhalt” - with the “star” as a symbol for a shining example of the EU structural fund campaigns 2013/2014.
See also shipyards in Havelberg .
Web links
- Shipyard website accessed on January 16, 2020
- Photos and data from the SunCat 120 accessed on January 18, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Takeover of the shipyard, described in the study "Industrial Family Businesses in East Germany" , accessed on January 14, 2020
- ↑ Ships for Iceland , accessed January 15, 2020
- ↑ Image from the stacking lift Technical data and images , accessed on January 14, 2020
- ↑ E-boats on the Spree , accessed on January 16, 2020
- ↑ SolarCircleLine , accessed January 16, 2020
- ^ Association for Electric Shipping and Charging Infrastructure , accessed on January 15, 2020