Lindau (ship, 1905)
 The Lindau 1906 in the home port of Lindau
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The steamship Lindau was a German passenger ship that was used on Lake Constance from 1905 to 1959 .
history
In 1903, the Royal Bavarian State Railways commissioned the Munich machine factory JA Maffei with the third semi-salon steamship with side wheel drive as a replacement for the smooth-deck steamer Maximilian (built in 1845). In 1904 the final assembly took place at the Lindau shipyard and in 1905 it was put into service. It was named Lindau after the Bavarian town of Lindau , located on an island in Lake Constance, and was named after the steamship Stadt Lindau , which was rammed by the city of Zurich in 1864 and sunk by the Habsburgs in 1887 . Until 1946, Lindau was the home port from which it was used on all Obersee courses .
Like all ships of the state railways, the Lindau was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920 and in the following decades, at least during the summer, became an excursion steamer for the White Fleet . Shortly before the end of the war, she was in the risky night-and-fog operation on 25/26 Towed April 1945 from the Munich to Arbon in Switzerland to be interned in order to avoid the NS order to sink all ships in Lindau and Bregenz . In the following French occupation , the Lindau was renamed Hoyerberg , a hill on the shores of Lake Constance near Lindau. From 1946, scheduled trips were again made from the new home port of Friedrichshafen . In 1952 it got its old name back from its new owner, the Deutsche Bundesbahn , after Germany had carried the name "Lindau" from 1949 to 1952. After 54 years of service, the Lindau was retired in the so-called "Dampfersterben" in 1959 and replaced in 1960 by the motor ship Stuttgart . The traditional name Lindau was given to the motor ship Grünten in 1964 , before it was awarded to the first new building of the Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe under the direction of Stadtwerke Konstanz in 2006 .
technical description
After its commissioning, the Lindau was the most powerful (850 PSi) and fastest (28 km / h) Lake Constance ship for a few years. In addition, it corresponded completely to the ideal of beauty of the Belle Époque . The slim external appearance - with a length of 58.3 m it was only 6.6 m wide over the main rib - was emphasized by the white paint, which was still unusual at the time. The interiors were designed by the Swiss Art Nouveau architect Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas, partly functional, partly playful.
As the first of five still relatively modern steamers, the Lindau was rebuilt in the winters of 1929/30 and 1930/31 in accordance with the new tourist and economic requirements. A semi-saloon steamship became a two-deck saloon ship with a raised wheelhouse. In order to compensate for the additional weight of the superstructure and payload (permitted passengers now 750 instead of 600), in 1926/27 hull bulges were riveted on both sides of the fore and aft at the level of the water lines to improve stability, without affecting the maximum speed. Four more steamships were converted in the same way.
See also
literature
- Michael Berg: Motor shipping on Lake Constance under the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in the post-war period. regional culture publisher, Ubstatt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-614-6 .
- Dietmar Bönke: paddle wheel and impeller. The shipping of the railway on Lake Constance. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-714-4 .
- Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer, Karl F. Fritz: The history of the great Lake Constance ships. Bodensee Magazin Verlag, Konstanz 2001, ISBN 3-935169-00-0 .
- Karl F. Fritz: Adventure steamship. MultiMediaVerlag, Meersburg 1990, ISBN 3-927484-00-8 .
- Klaus von Rudloff, Claude Jeanmaire: Shipping on Lake Constance. Volume 2: The heyday of steam shipping. Villigen (CH) 1981.
- Manfred E. Uhlig: Our steamship "Hohentwiel" . Stadler-Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 1990, ISBN 3-7977-0210-8 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ See: Internment of German Lake Constance Ships in Switzerland 1945
- ↑ The time of the renaming is not clear in the literature and fluctuates from 1945 to 1949. In Klaus von Rudloff and Claude Jeanmaire (see literature), p. 45: Renaming 1946. In Karl F. Fritz (see literature), p . 122, the Lindau 1946 in the home port of Lindau can be seen on a photograph . After Fritz, the name was not changed until June 1949.
- ↑ In the literature the name change of the Lindau in Hoyerberg is justified with the fact that the French navy had previously renamed the Germany in Lindau . In fact, Germany was first given the name Rhin et Danube in 1945 . It was only when the ship became the responsibility of the General Directorate of the South West German Railways in June 1949 that the occupying power insisted on "Lindau" (Michael Berg, p. 108), before the German Federal Railroad in 1952 gave the two ships their old names again.
- ^ Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer, Karl F. Fritz: The history of the great Bodensee ships. 2001, p. 21f.
- ↑ The first motor ships were already in operation and the real comparison test between "Coal" ( City of Überlingen ) and "Diesel" ( Allgäu ) had just started. See Allgäu prehistory
- ^ Manfred E. Uhlig: Our steamship "Hohentwiel". 1990, p. 20.
- ^ Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer, Karl F. Fritz: The history of the great Bodensee ships. 2001, p. 44f.