Luitpold (ship)
 The Luitpold in a painting
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The saloon steamer Luitpold was a body ship of the Wittelsbach family , which sailed as a passenger steamer on Lake Starnberg from 1890 to 1954 and offered space for 1,200 passengers.
history
Luitpold , operated by Würmsee-Actiengesellschaft, was named after the Prince Regent Luitpold and was luxuriously furnished. It had electric lighting and was decorated in a neo- rococo style. At the bow there was initially a gilded figurehead , the Triton and a boy showed. There was also a gold-plated railing in ironwork and a burgundy red hull. Since the figurehead proved to be a hindrance during mooring maneuvers, it was dismantled again quite soon. Other changes were the installation of two fans next to the chimney after 1900 and the construction of a closed wheelhouse instead of the original open helm.
With the end of the monarchy , the paddle steamer was renamed Munich in 1918 or 1919 . Until 1954 it served as a passenger steamer on Lake Starnberg. When the ship was scrapped in 1955, parts of the interior were sold at auction. Whereas the ship cost 230,000 marks in 1890 , the value of scrap in 1955 was given as 18,000 DM .
builder
The ship, including the boiler system and steam engine, came from Maffei and was assembled in Starnberg . The lighting system came from Siemens , the superstructures and the salons from J. Rathgeber in Munich. The interior was supplied by the company Radlayers from Munich, the railing was made in the court blacksmith's workshop Moradelli in Munich. Professor Rudolf von Seitz took care of the artistic design of the ship, and Professor Rudolf Maison designed the Triton with the boy .
Whereabouts
The figurehead that was on the Starnberger Bauhof was preserved and is now in the Starnberger See Museum . The construction plans of the ship are in the archive of the Deutsches Museum and in the Alfred Lemberg collection. Parts of the ship's railing were apparently installed in a hotel in Bad Oberdorf , another part is in the Starnberger See Museum.
Models and paintings
A 1:50 scale model of the Luitpold is in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven . This model received a gold medal at the NAVIGA World Championship in 1989. It was built by Anton Happach. Another model, on a scale of 1: 100, also comes from Anton Happach and is in the Starnberger See Museum. A painting of the ship by Michael Zeno Diemer was distributed as a postcard, a ship's timetable from 1901 bears an illustration by Gustav Adolf van Hees .
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Albert Gross, history and stories around the Prinz-Luitpold-Bad , Bad Hindelang 2010, p. 97.