Leipzig (ship, 1929)
 The Leipzig in front of Eckberg Palace in Dresden
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The passenger steamer Leipzig is the sister ship of the Dresden and the youngest ship of the Saxon steamship . Both ships are the largest paddle steamers in the fleet. It was laid down with hull number 75 . Since 1992 it belongs to the existence of the Saxon Steamship GmbH & Co. KG Conti Elbschiffahrts and travels to the upper same .
The time with the SBDA until 1945
The ship was built in 1929 by the shipyard in Laubegast . It was the last paddle steamer that was built at the shipyard. It was launched on March 25, 1929 and commissioned on May 11, 1929 by the Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrt, Aktiengesellschaft (SBDA). Like the Dresden , the Leipzig embodied the "Rhine type", with large windows instead of the previous double windows and a large saloon on the aft deck. The hull of the Leipzig is 1 meter longer than the hull of the Dresden . The reason for the change was the eighth heaviness of the Dresden . She was used as a saloon ship. From 1936 a salon surcharge of 10 pfennigs was levied; a concert surcharge of 30 Pf.
In the summer of 1943, the Leipzig, like all steamers, was given a camouflage finish. From 1943 she served as a hospital ship . On February 14, 1945, she was deployed to bring survivors of the February 13 air raid out of the city. The journeys to evacuate the wounded and sick led to Aussig . In a bombing raid on March 2, 1945, a bomb exploded right next to the ship lying at its berth on the Kleinzschachwitzer Ufer , severely damaging the ship and sank. On March 15, 1945 an attempt was made to tow the Leipzig to Laubegast in the shipyard. During this attempt, the stern was further deformed and the ship sank again after 150 m. Thereafter, no further rescue attempt was made for the time being.
Due to the low water level of the Elbe, the ship was halfway on the bank. Rescue was only possible when the water level rose. The first attempt to salvage the ship, which was half sunken in the mud, failed on December 23, 1945. In another attempt on December 24, 1945, after the leaks had been sealed, the ship was pulled into deeper water and towed by the Laubegast steam ferry Johanna to the shipyard in Laubegast. It was taken ashore here on December 25, 1945.
The time with the White Fleet in Dresden
The reconstruction began in January 1946. In the winter of 1946/47 the ship was towed into the Loschwitz harbor and the interior work began here. In the spring of 1947, the reconstruction in the Laubegaster shipyard was continued and the ship was handed over to VEB Elbeschiffahrt Sachsen on June 5, 1947 . It was put back into service on June 7, 1947. The SBDA was on 1 February 1947 as VEB Schiffahrtsgesellschaft Saxony in public property has been transferred. From 1950 to 1957 this belonged to the VEB Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagszentrale (DSU). After its dissolution, the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt und Reparaturwerft Dresden was established in 1957 and from 1967 the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt Dresden .
In 1967 the ship and engine were given a general overhaul and both wheel arches were rebuilt. In 1970 the ship got a new wheelhouse. In 1977 the ship was taken ashore in the Laubegaster shipyard. The boiler house and engine room house were rebuilt by 1978. The ship received a forward deck saloon. On September 3, 1978 the Leipzig was put back into service. The price surcharge for concert trips was 50 pfennigs in 1978.
In 1988 the ship was taken ashore for a comprehensive reconstruction in the Laubegaster shipyard. The machine foundation was renewed and a new steam boiler was installed. In 1990, construction was stopped due to unclear financing.
The time with the Saxon steamship
Like seven other Dresden steamers, the Leipzig paddle steamer was overhauled at the Laubegast shipyard after the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR . Work on the ship, which had been on land since 1988, which had been suspended in 1990, was resumed in December 1992. On July 20, 1993, the Leipzig was put back into service as the fourth ship to be reconstructed after the fall of the Wall.
After extensive repairs in Laubegast, the ship was launched again on March 17, 2016 and was scheduled to start the first tour of the castles on April 5, 2016. In the morning hours of April 2, 2016, a fire broke out on board the ship lying on the terrace bank as a result of a short circuit . This was quickly extinguished by the fire brigade . The fire destroyed the floors in the kitchen and the wooden ceilings on the main deck. In addition, the sooty engine room and the steam engine had to be laboriously cleaned. The damage was estimated at 250,000 euros. The Leipzig was ready for use again for the fleet parade on May 1, 2016 .
The steam engine
The steam engine is a sloping two-cylinder superheated steam compound steam engine with injection condensation and valve control of the Lenz type, which produces an output of 300 hp. Like the two-flame tube cylinder boiler, it was built by WUMAG , Übigau-Aktiengesellschaft, shipyard, machine and boiler factory with construction no. 1815. The steam engine acts on two side paddle wheels with a diameter of 3.20 m, which have nine movable steel paddles. Two steam turbines, manufactured by Bekawerk Liske & Co. from Leipzig, are used to generate electricity . The steam boiler installed in 1988 has a steam pressure of 10 bar and was built by the Übigau steam boiler construction company. The firing was switched to automatic oil firing.
Web links
- Description of the ship on the website of the shipping company
- Passenger steamer Leipzig - data sheet
- Passenger steamer Leipzig - steam engine
- Passenger steamer Leipzig - steam control winch
Individual evidence
- ^ Readers' mail: Hospital ship "Leipzig" , Elbhang-Kurier online , June 2008.
- ^ Anneke Müller: That's why the Leipzig steamer burned. In: Dresdner Morgenpost . April 5, 2016, accessed August 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Leipzig steamship picks up speed again. Sachsen Fernsehen , April 29, 2016, accessed on August 1, 2017 .