Lindau (ship, 1958)
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Lindau (1958 to 1964 Grünten , retired in 2005)
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The motor ship Lindau was put into service as a passenger ship on Lake Constance by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) in 1958 under the name Grünten . In 1964 it was renamed Lindau and used on the Obersee until it was closed in 2004 , from 1994 under the new owner Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe .
history
In 1957 the Deutsche Bundesbahn ordered a medium-sized two-deck ship for 350 passengers from the Bodan shipyard , exactly 20 years after the construction of the last large units in Swabia and Karlsruhe . In the meantime, due to the war, the main shipyard for Lake Constance motor ships was initially busy with armaments contracts and then with repairing the damaged ships. The eight newbuildings of the DB since 1952 were only smaller excursion boats. In addition, the Bodan shipyard was very successful with the development and construction of modern medium-sized and larger ships for the Swiss market. They are still in use today on Lake Zurich , Lake Brienz , Lake Thun and - like the Säntis - on Lake Constance. Characteristic of these ships were the flowing lines of the hull, superstructure and the curved, mostly attached mast, the large panorama windows and the dummy chimney connected to the wheelhouse - features that also the new motor ship Grünten and the DB ships later built by the Bodan shipyard Stuttgart , Munich and Constance shape.
In this respect, the Grünten, which went into service in 1958, was the first modern DB passenger ship on Lake Constance with its home port in the Bavarian island town of Lindau in Lake Constance and named after the mountain Grünten near Sonthofen in Oberallgäu. It replaced the steamship Munich , which was decommissioned in 1958, and was given the new name Lindau in 1964 , after the steamship Lindau from 1905 fell victim to the "steamer death" in 1959 . The former Grünten served the scheduled traffic between Lindau and Rorschach and was used for tours on the Obersee . In the winter months from 1958 to 1960 she supported the winter ships on the Obersee section between Friedrichshafen and Konstanz and on the year-round Meersburg - Konstanz route until 1973 . In November 1967 she replaced the motor ship Meersburg on this route , whose depressed forward stem had to be repaired in the shipyard after a collision with the gravel ship Seestern . In the last two years of service in 2003/04, it replaced the closed Friedrichshafen and was therefore assigned the new home port of Friedrichshafen.
After that, the bad news piled up. In 2003 the ship broke down with engine damage. In October 2004 it suffered a propeller damage and was decommissioned in Lindau harbor. In November of the same year, water ingress followed with a list and serious machine damage. The Lindau was finally taken out of service in 2005 and there was a dispute about her berth. Rusted and with no name on the bow, she “witnessed” the christening celebrations of the new Lindau in July 2006. In the following year the old ship came to the shipyard in Fußach / Vorarlberg. In 2010 it was sold to an investor and at the end of 2010 it was scrapped on the slipway in Fußach after 47 years of use. Since 2010 the Baden , with 78 years of service, the oldest ship of the Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe, has been taking over the scheduled and special trips of the former Lindau from Lindau .
technical description
The Lindau was of the same design as the Swiss motor ship Säntis , built two years earlier by the Bodan shipyard , whose home port is Romanshorn . The Lindau was slightly larger: length over all 43.0 m, width over all 9.1 m, draft 1.64 m, displacement 182 t, two MWM six-cylinder engines with 310 hp each, speed 26 km / h.
Like the Säntis and all other Swiss Lake Constance ships , the Lindau was not powered by Voith-Schneider propellers , which had been the standard on larger German ships since 1931 because of their excellent maneuverability. Instead, she was the first ship on Lake Constance to be equipped with two Escher-Wyss variable-pitch propellers , which meant that the reversing gear required for fixed propellers or the need to change the drive motors was no longer necessary . The Lindau was probably the last larger passenger ship on Lake Constance with a steering wheel, apart from the Fritz Arnold ferry (built in 1963) - it had three.
See also
literature
- 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: From the Allgäu to the Count Zeppelin. The large passenger ships of the German Lake Constance fleet since 1929 . Labhard Verlag, Konstanz 1997. ISBN 3-926937-36-X
- the same: The history of the great Lake Constance ships. Bodensee-Magazin-Verlag, Konstanz undated (2nd edition). ISBN 3-935169-00-0 .
- Federal Railway Directorate Karlsruhe - Office Bodensee - Schiffsbetriebe Konstanz (Ed.): 150 years of shipping on Lake Constance and the Rhine . Constance 1974.
- Erich Liechti, Jürg Meister, Josef Gwerder: The history of shipping on Lake Constance, Untersee and the Rhine . Meier Verlag, Schaffhausen 1981. ISBN 3-85801-020-0
Web links
- Lindau (1958) on bodenseeschifffahrt.de
- Säntis (1956) on bodenseeschifffahrt.de
- Josef Siebler in: Südkurier from October 28, 2004: White fleet receives new ship
- Evi Eck-Gedler in: Schwäbische Zeitung of March 31, 2006: Expanding the MS Lindau as an attraction
- DB ships on Lake Constance (I) - The 1958 project
- Vorarlberg Online from December 17, 2010: Alte Lindau is being scrapped
Footnotes
- ↑ Article and illustration on vorarlberg online on December 17, 2010 [1]
- ↑ Data and illustrations in Liechti / Literatur pp. 95–98
- ↑ In inland shipping today, controllable pitch propellers are no longer used because they are too expensive and time-consuming.