Lübeck cog
The Lübeck cog was a modern replica of a Hanse cog, which was completed in 1926 for the 700th anniversary of the freedom of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .
history
The Lübeck cog was the first modern attempt to reconstruct a Hanse cog and was financed by donations from the Lübeck population to celebrate freedom from the Reich. The celebrations were organized by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , which was largely refinanced through the jubilation ball from Niederegger -Marzipan. The highlight of the event was a historical pageant organized by Alfred Mahlau , which took up the theme of the Lübeck Dance of Death. The cog was placed on the hull of a tjalk and had a length of 22 and a width of 6 meters.
During the festivities in the summer of 1926, the Lübeck cog was an exhibition piece next to the doll's bridge in front of the Holsten Gate . It had already been purchased by the Lübeck Yacht Club as a future floating clubhouse in the spring of 1926 . In addition to the clubhouse on the Travemünder Leuchtenfeld and the boathouse on the Wakenitz, this additional clubhouse was intended to offer the members a social hub in Lübeck's old town . After the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Lübeck, the cog was expanded below deck at the TRAYAG shipyard in Travemünde as a club restaurant and shortly before Christmas 1926 it was ceremoniously taken to the Lübeck city harbor. The great sailing sponsor of the Lübeck Yacht Club, Prince Heinrich of Prussia, also agreed to the first subsequent event on the Lübeck cog in 1927 .
In the wake of the global economic crisis in 1929, the club had to charter out the Lübeck cog temporarily in order to generate the income it needed to maintain it.
In 1936 the Lübeck cog was relocated to the Kiel Fjord for the sailing competitions of the Olympic Games in 1936 . In front of the clubhouse of the Kiel Yacht Club , the Olympic flame burned on the shell of their correspondingly converted foremast during the regattas . There it capsized the night after the opening on August 3, but was straightened up again. The journey home to Lübeck was delayed by the accident in which the sand ballast slipped and got damp. This made it necessary to stay in the shipyard in Kiel, so that the cog only returned to Lübeck shortly before Christmas 1936.
After the Second World War, the clubhouses of the Lübeck Yacht Club in Travemünde (until 1949) and on the Wakenitz (until 1950) were confiscated by the British military government, so that the Lübeck cog in the city harbor next to the Holstentor temporarily became the only clubhouse. The Hansekogge, which had to be sold by the Lübeck Yacht Club to the managing economist in the course of the war, capsized twice in a row in October 1950 on the Trave near Teerhofinsel , where it had been moved for necessary repair work. The insufficient insurance cover sealed her fate after 24 years.
literature
- Karin Böge: The Lübeck Yacht Club and an eventful 100 years. Lübeck 1998
- Hansekogge Breviary, Lübeck 1929
See also
Web links
- Landmark of imperial freedom. Already in 1926 a replica of a Hanse cog - Olympic flame on board. In: Lübeck city newspaper. City of Lübeck , August 17, 1999, accessed on November 12, 2010 .
