Leoni (ship, 1926)
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The Leoni was a passenger ship that operated liner services on Lake Starnberg and later on Lake Traunsee .
history
Scheduled passenger shipping on Lake Starnberg, which was officially called Würmsee at the time, began in 1851 with the paddle steamer Maximilian , which Johann Ulrich Himbsel had put into operation. Himbsel also took care of the construction of a railway line from Munich to Starnberg . After this had been extended and Seeshaupt had a railway connection, Himbsel's son and heir Franz apparently no longer saw a great future for Starnberg shipping and sold the business. A stock corporation, the Würmsee-Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft , was founded, which acquired four steamships in the course of its existence. These steamers named Ludwig , Bavaria , Wittelsbach and Luitpold were all still available and ready for use when the concession for the stock corporation expired in 1915 and the operation was taken over by the Bavarian State Railway.
In 1919 three of the four steamers were renamed. From then on they were called Tutzing , Starnberg and Munich . Only the Bavaria was allowed to keep its name; However, perhaps also in the course of this democratization, it lost its rear figure in 1919, which represented the crowned Bavarian lion .
The new practice to name the ships on Lake Starnberg by geographic objects, you also followed, as in the interwar period, the first motor vessel was added to the fleet: The Schloss was a converted screw steamer, the previously on the Koenigssee had been in use . Since this ship did not prove itself on the Würmsee, it was abolished again after a very short time.
The next attempt to add a motor ship to the fleet was more successful. The Leoni was built in 1926 at the Theodor Hitzler shipyard in Regensburg . Your machine developed 140 hp. The ship was more modestly sized than the large saloon steamers from the 19th century and only designed for 90 passengers, but was used in passenger service for several decades. In its last years on Lake Starnberg, however, it was considered to be quite ailing and was only used sporadically before it was retired in 1972 and sold to Lake Traunsee.
After a thorough renovation and the receipt of new superstructures, the ship carried passengers there until 2000. After that it was used as a work ship until 2005 and then sold to Joachim Eckl in Neufelden in the Mühlviertel , where it was dug in next to the Hotel Mühltalerhof and from then on used as an event location or interpreted as a work of art.
The ship had been painted in the style of Gmund ceramics since 1999 . There was no name successor for the Leoni on Lake Starnberg.
The Leoni as the film ship Tristan
Before the Leoni was delivered to Traunstein, it was still used for filming on Lake Starnberg. It was used as Tristan in Visconti's film Ludwig II , for which it had to be redesigned in Regensburg. The fairy tale king Ludwig II used this steamship, which his father Maximilian II bought in 1857, with pleasure and regularly. The original ship could no longer be used for the film: after Ludwig's death the ship was still used, now under the name Ludwig , but in 1945 it was canceled.
Web links
- Grünberg - FGS - O-10.349 (Traunsee) on www.binnenschifferforum.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Benedikt von Hebenstreit , History of Shipping , 2005 on schiffs-agentur.ch (PDF; 118 kB)
- ↑ a b Hubert Rank, The Münsing community in old views , 978-90-288-4698-2, Fig. 55 (explanatory text online at www.europese-bibliotheek.nl )
- ↑ a b Grünberg - FGS - O-10.349 (Traunsee) on www.binnenschifferforum.de
- ↑ Retired ships Traunsee (as of September 2017 ) , p. 12, on www.schiffs-agentur.ch
- ↑ Sonnenbarke at www.heimart.at