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The Klostersande is a former inland motor cargo ship owned by the freight office E. Kölln KG, Elmshorn . It was the last of what used to be four ships that delivered grain to the Köllnflockenwerke . After a total of 1676 voyages, the ship became unprofitable due to the increasing siltation of the Krückau . After all, it was only able to carry half of the normal load. On November 21, 2000, the Klostersande left the port of Elmshorn for the last time and was sold. After several changes of ownership, the Förderverein Klostersande eV acquired the ship in 2015, which has been back in its former home port since August 2016 as a cultural and historical testimony to Elmshorn's history.
Construction and technical data
The monastery sand was built in 1968 according to plans by the design office Kurt AH Oehlmann STG shipbuilding engineer Travemünde at the Büsching & Rosemeyer shipyard in Uffeln on the Weser with construction number 226 for the E. Kölln freight office in Elmshorn. With a length of 55.09 m and a width of 6.60 m, a side height of 2.20 m and a draft of 1.70 m (fully loaded with oats) or 1.20 m (empty), she had one Load capacity of 500 tons (with oats only 377 tons). The Klostersande had two cargo holds more than three meters high, each 18.90 mx 6.40 m in size, which were covered with multi-part, arched hatch plates made of corrugated iron, and two grain bulkheads. The ship was propelled by a 12-cylinder Deutz four-stroke diesel engine with 300 hp . Home port was Elmshorn.
The Klostersande is named after the district / district Klostersande / Lieth or the local street Klostersande in Elmshorn.
history
In order to become independent of the fluctuations in the freight market, the management of the Köllnflockenwerke began to build up its own fleet of small freight ships in the 1960s. First, the three inland motor ships Kornblume (180 tons), Corn Ear (270 tons) and Korngarbe (435 tons) were purchased. Since the cornflower turned out to be too small, a larger new building was ordered in 1967 and put into service as Klostersande in 1968 .
The ship mostly operated between Elmshorn and Hamburg to deliver oats for the oatmeal production or feed for the concentrate factory at that time. Occasionally it also drove in free freight operation between ports in the Rhine area to the Kiel Canal . In the 1980s, oats were also regularly brought to Elmshorn from Wittenberge on the Elbe in what was then the GDR .
Due to the rapidly increasing shift in grain transport from water to road in the 1980s, the Kölln ships were gradually sold for demolition. The exception was the monastery sand . However, since the entire commercial shipping on the Krückau then declined sharply, the Krückau shipping route was dredged less and less by the responsible waterways and shipping authority in Hamburg . This took place for the last time in 1996 between the port and river kilometer 4. The silting continued to increase, so that the Klostersande could only reach the Elmshorn port with half its load at normal tide, and in the end with only a third of its load capacity. Thereupon the operation of the ship was stopped in the year 2000 due to inefficiency and it was sold. This also ended the commercial use of the once very important Elmshorn grain port.
Todays use
Several changes of ownership followed without the ship being given a new permanent assignment. Only in 2013 did a change for the better become apparent. For the exhibition project "Gate to the Elbe - Port in the Tide Changing of the Elmshorn Industrial Museum , 2013", the ship owner at the time agreed to have the monastery sands brought to Elmshorn free of charge as an exhibition contribution. The transfer from Hamburg to Elmshorn took place on May 14, 2013. The Förderverein MS Klostersande eV, founded on July 17, 2013, then tried to collect donations for the purchase of the ship in order to keep it permanently in the Elmshorn port. In December 2014, they agreed on a purchase price of 55,000 euros , of which 30,000 euros can be paid in six annual installments until 2019, and in January 2015 the association was officially registered as the owner in the inland shipping register. As a cultural and historical testimony to Elmshorn's economic and shipping history, the ship is now lying on the north bank in its former home port. In order to guarantee the permanent preservation of the monastery sands, cultural and social events have been taking place in the correspondingly redesigned cargo holds since August 2016. They offer space for up to 120 people at culinary events; if you want to dance, there is space for 80 people. Klostersande has also been the official branch of the Elmshorn registry office since 2016 , and civil weddings have been held on board since then.
The Klostersande is next to the 1,898 built in Elmshorn iron Ewer Gloria the second historic ship in the old port of Elmshorn. While the Gloria represents the beginnings of grain transport with small sailors in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Klostersande stands for the end of this trade in Elmshorn.
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.klostersande.com/technik.html
- ↑ All three have since been scrapped.
- ^ Förderverein MS Klostersande eV
- ^ Elmshorn has a cargo ship again, Elmshorner Nachrichten, December 20, 2014
- ↑ http://www.klostersande.com/foerderverein.html
- ↑ On the "Klostersande" ship is made clear, Hamburger Abendblatt, e-paper, March 16, 2015
- ↑ 55 meters of party & fun: MS Klostersande becomes event ship, Moin Holstein, July 1, 2016 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Event ship MS Klostersande
- ↑ Wedding locations of the city of Elmshorn
