Ligger
A ligger is a boat body that is no longer actively used as a vehicle. In the past these discarded boat hulls (Lieger - Low German Ligger) were used as storage for utensils, tools and also as a container for live fish.
For the storage of live fish, disused fishing vessels were mostly used, which already had a perforated and water-flooded fish room ( Pomerania : Deken; North Sea : Bünn). These liggers were mainly located near the fishing spots.
Liggers, which were built to hold live fish, are called Drewel (Drebel; Dräwel). The Drewel is designed like a boat body and is divided into several, usually four to five, sections. The water space is separated from the rest of the hull by watertight bulkheads so that buoyancy is maintained through the fore and aft sections . The partition walls of the middle sections for storing the fish are only loosely boarded up in order to be able to keep different types of fish separate from each other. In order to achieve a sufficient supply of the fish with water, the liggers were preferably moored in flowing water, for example on river banks or sluices, so that water flowed through them. Liggers were in use in Pomerania until the 1960s, so inLauterbach and in Seedorf on Rügen and also in Wolgast . The last remaining Drewel, built as a holding vessel, is placed in Göhren and comes from Seedorf.
literature
- Wolfgang Rudolph: The boats of the waters around Rügen. Akademie Verlag 1961.