Mützelfeldtwerft
| Mützelfeldtwerft | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Legally dependent branch of Bredo Dockgesellschaft mbH |
| founding | 1802 |
| Seat | Cuxhaven , Germany |
| management | Thorsten Rönner, Dirk Harms |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
| Website | www.muetzelfeldtwerft-nord-gmbh.de |
The Mützelfeldtwerft is a shipyard in Cuxhaven . It was founded in 1895 by Franz Mützelfeldt and has been a member of the Heinrich Rönner Group since 2013 . It mainly builds smaller ships: tugs , floating cranes , fishing vessels and cargo ships .
history
A blacksmith's shop on an island in the priel with an attached carpentry shop was the nucleus of today's Mützelfeldtwerft in 1805. On July 28, 1802, the ship's carpenter's house Johann Christian Elfers began building the ship on the site of today's marina on Schleusenpriel . In 1816 JJ Dürrels took over the yard and leased it to Taake Jansen for a short time. On December 13, 1821, C. Bufe, a ship and sloop builder, acquired the shipyard. Until 1854, 18 larger ships had been built here, as evidenced in the ship register. This is how the rise of the shipyard on the Elbe estuary began , which gained reputation through various repair work and numerous new construction contracts. After the construction of several small vehicles, the largest full ship of its time, the Möwe , was launched there. It was followed by the then largest Bark, Europe , based in Hamburg ; however, their construction was too much for the shipyard financially, so it had to close on June 20, 1855.
The old owner's son, August Bufe, continued to run the shipyard. When he died at the age of 46, his widow leased the shipyard in 1895 to Franz Mützelfeldt, a mechanical engineer born in Lauenburg .
From 1900
On November 3, 1904, she finally sold the shipyard to him. With the takeover of the shipyard by Franz Mützelfeldt, a new era began in the history of the shipyard. The restructuring of the port of Cuxhaven into a transshipment point for sea fish also changed the image of the shipyard. The repair business was strongly boosted during this time. Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War , major expansion and modernization measures were completed. This made it possible for the Imperial Navy to take over the shipyard in 1914 and use it as a repair area for its barrage units for the duration of the war . After the end of the war, the Mützelfeldtwerft consolidated its reputation as a repair yard. A number of new buildings followed, such as the Friedrich Bons motor logger , the Traute steam logger and the Thuringia coaster .
After the death of Franz Mützelfeldt senior in 1938, Franz Mützelfeldt junior took over the shipyard. But soon afterwards, with the beginning of the Second World War , the German navy returned to the shipyard.
After 1945
After the end of the Second World War, the shipyard had been hit worse than after the end of the First World War. When the reconstruction was completed, only the repair of units of the English Royal Navy , which operated from Cuxhaven , was initially left. German merchant shipping was slowly picking itself up again, and after the first renovations, the first new buildings soon followed. In the 1950s and 1960s the shipyard delivered a number of newbuildings to various shipping companies . These included the refrigerated ship Caribia and some tugs with Kort nozzles or variable pitch propellers, which caused a sensation in European ports with their extraordinary towing performance. It was seen as a special honor when the fishing research vessel Anton Dohrn was commissioned by the Federal Republic of Germany at the beginning of the 1960s . It was the first and most modern fisheries research vessel built at the time. The Poseidon fisheries protection boat followed .
Another milestone was the establishment of the dock operations in the Amerika-Hafen in 1972. With the purchase of the dock, a third-party company took a stake in the Mützelfeldtwerft for the first time - the HDW . Due to the exposed location at the intersection of the Elbe, Weser and Kiel Canal shipping lanes, the repair area flourished and the weight shifted in favor of the repair and the America port. Just a few years after becoming involved, HDW left the company again.
In the 1970s, the passenger ships Fair Lady , Westerland , Funny Girl and Flipper were built. All ships are still in service today in the German seaside resort fleet . The shipyard also lived up to its reputation as a tug shipyard. In 1972 the last Kort nozzle tug was launched - the Escort for L&R. The first Schottel tugs for P&A soon followed - the Peter , the Ise (25 t bollard pull each ) and the larger sisters Karl and Johanna (34 t bollard pull each). At the end of the 1970s, planning began to relocate the entire shipyard to the Amerikahafen. Before that, the second floating dock was bought and Ferrostaal AG from Essen took a stake in the Mützelfeldtwerft. The move of the shipyard to the Amerikahafen was one of the last acts of Franz Mützelfeldt as managing director and owner before he passed the business on to his son Pieter Mützelfeldt in 1980. In 1984 the slipways and Helgen at Schleusenpriel had finally become obsolete, and the shipyard finally left its place of origin in the center of the city of Cuxhaven in the direction of the America harbor.
There, in the course of the 1980s, cargo shipbuilding was revived with the new building by Rudolf Karstens . It was in turn followed by tugs, floating cranes, fishing vessels and cargo ships, including the newly developed type of Euro-Trawler. Three copies of these small but powerful special ships were launched . However, this expression is no longer entirely correct at the Mützelfeldtwerft: Since the Rudolf Karstens , the ships have been lifted at the Mützelfeldtwerft. The shipyard's most important major repairs, the repair of the Heinrich Heine , also took place in the 1980s : the heavily damaged ship was returned to its original condition in just 84 days. In the early 1990s, the ultra-modern and technologically advanced Cuxhaven followed as the last fresh fish trawler built for a German shipping company.
The last decade of the 20th century was dominated by container ship and gas tanker construction . During this time, the largest ships built by the Mützelfeldtwerft to date were also put into service, the fast 1100 TEU container ships. They were followed by gas tankers with 3600 m³ and 5600 m³ capacity as well as a new type of chemical coastal tanker with 1100 tdw. During this time, Pieter Mützelfeldt decided to sell the shipyard for lack of an heir . The long-standing operations manager Claus Howoldt was the buyer and successor in 1999.
From 2007 to 2010 the Mützelfeldtwerft built Germany's most powerful anchor-handling tugs , the ships Uranus and Orcus .
The company has been part of the Heinrich Rönner Group since July 2013 . In 2017, the shipyard merged with the Bremerhaven-based repair yards Bredo and German Dry Docks to form a group of companies, whose initially legally independent companies operated jointly on the market under the name Bredo Dry Docks in order to be able to use synergy effects.
In 2018, the Mützelfeldtwerft was merged with Bredo Dockgesellschaft mbH in Bremerhaven under commercial law
literature
- Nik Schumann: 100 years of the Mützelfeldtwerft in Cuxhaven . Elbe-Spree-Verlag eK, 2004, ISBN 3-931129-10-1
- Off to new shores . In: Hansa , Heft 6/2012, S. 24/25, Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa, Hamburg 2012
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ New shipyard alliance . In: Weser Kurier , January 11, 2017; accessed on July 6, 2019
- ↑ 2018 annual financial statements of Bredo Dockgesellschaft mbH, published on bundesanzeiger.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 45.3 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 49.5" E