RheinEnergie (ship)

RheinEnergie

The RheinEnergie on investors in Cologne

Ship data flag  Malta Ship type Day trip boat home port Valletta Owner KD Europe S.à rl Shipping company Cologne-Düsseldorfer Shipyard Shipyard De Hoop Build number 404 building-costs 8 million euros Launch April 22, 2004 Commissioning June 18, 2004

Ship dimensions and crew length 90.24 m ( Lüa ) width 19.30 m Draft Max. 1.56 m displacement 1213  t   crew 40

Machine system machine 2 × Deutz TBD620V8, 820 kW each Machine performance 1,640 kW (2,230 hp) propeller 2 × Schottel STP 440 2 × De Gerlien van Tiem - 1200 (bow thruster)

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 1650

Others Registration numbers ENI 04803020

The RheinEnergie is a day trip and event ship built by KD Europe S.à rl in 2003/04. It is used on a long-term charter by its parent company, the Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt . The shipping company's only catamaran , with a usable area of 2000 m², is the largest excursion ship on European inland waters . It is mainly used in scheduled traffic between Cologne and Bad Hönningen . For charter, special and event trips, it is used between Mainz and Düsseldorf . Its most prominent passenger was Pope Benedict XVI. , who blessed the believers on both sides of the Rhine from its open deck during World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne .

history

As a replacement for their outdated and uneconomical excursion ships Berlin and Wappen von Mainz , the Cologne-Düsseldorfer needed a ship that, in addition to the scheduled day trip traffic, should also be suitable for a wide variety of events. After the company Schiffstechnik Buchloh from Unkel had completed the construction plan according to the design by the Dutch designer Michiel Groendijk, which was favored by the shipping company , the construction contract was placed on July 15, 2003 at the De Hoop shipyard in Rijnwaarden . The keel was laid on November 21, 2003, the launch on April 22 of the following year. The shipyard delivered the catamaran manufactured under construction number 404 on June 16, 2004. The construction costs for the new ship amounted to 8 million  euros . The shipping company paid for this with a mortgage loan of 6 million euros running until the end of 2018 and a construction loan of 1.12 million euros and with own funds of 1.88 million euros, most of which came from the sale of the excursion ship Rüdesheim .

Pope Benedict XVI at RheinEnergie

After the official handover to the Cologne-Düsseldorfer on June 17, 2004 in Cologne, Claudia Kleinert, under the blessing of Cardinal Meisner and in the presence of the then Mayor of Cologne Fritz Schramma, baptized the ship in the name of RheinEnergie, a regional energy supplier with whom a long-term sponsorship contract was concluded has been. During the subsequent maiden voyage to Düsseldorf , RheinEnergie had to drop anchor below the Mülheim bridge due to an error message in the monitoring system of the propulsion system . When the machines and control system shut down, it turned out to be a software error, so the journey could continue afterwards. The commissioning took place on June 18, during which it was first used for four days as an event ship for the NRW days on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne-Deutz . The first scheduled traffic trip took place on July 2, 2004 between Bad Breisig and Rüdesheim .

At the World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, the RheinEnergie was used as a festival ship on August 18th. Pope Benedict XVI blessed more than 600,000 pilgrims who had gathered on both sides of the Rhine from the front open deck during his welcome trip .

In December 2008, the ship was sold to the wholly owned subsidiary KD Europe S.à rl in Luxembourg and then registered in Valletta , Malta in January 2009 . Since the ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer cannot reach their home port due to lack of seaworthiness, they are serviced in the Niehler Hafen in Cologne.

The State House could not be used at the Amphi Festival 2016 , a third festival stage next to the two indoor stages was set up for the first time at RheinEnergie .

On the night of September 1, 2018, the ship ran aground during a party trip in Cologne at around 9:30 p.m. The Rhine had low water at this time. There were six injured and the ship was arrested by the police for accident analysis.

Furnishing

Bow view

Rear view

The RheinEnergie is a four-deck, two-hull ship with a usable area of ​​2000 m² in the closed decks and a 1200 m² open deck. All passenger decks are air-conditioned and equipped with modern event technology for different uses. The central focus of the ship is the 35 m² stage set amidships between the main deck and the upper deck, which can be seen by up to 1000 passengers depending on the seating.

In the lower port deck of the catamaran, between the bow thruster room in front and the engine room at the stern, several utility and cooling rooms and eleven staff cabins were set up. The starboard lower deck is also equipped with several utility and cooling rooms as well as 10 staff cabins between the operating rooms. The kitchen area was used in the central nave between the two hulls. To the left of this, the tanks for fuel, fresh water, faeces and additional ballast are installed in the intermediate floor to the main deck. In the bow of the ship, next to the toilet facilities, parking spaces for bicycles and a cloakroom have been set up. The event stage is connected to the entrance hall in the central nave, behind it is a salon with 458 seats. In the bow area of ​​the upper deck is the large, glazed viewing salon with 188 seats and a bar in the middle. In the middle part of the deck there are toilet facilities, the air conditioning center and the stairs on both sides to the open deck. The so-called gallery deck with 254 seats is located in the aft ship, followed by the bar room with an additional 138 table seats aft. On the part of the open deck in front of the lowerable steering position , several beach chairs are set up for the passengers in addition to groups of tables in the summer months. The central area, which is equipped with a counter, is covered by an awning. Groups of tables are also set up on the other parts of the open deck. At the end of the deck is a 7.50 × 2.50 m large skylight, through which larger objects such as cars can be let into the ship for representational purposes if necessary. In everyday use, this roof inlet is covered with rubber mats, on which a small playground with a carousel and a slide is sometimes created. There is space for over 1000 people on the open deck.

At the Cologne pier

RheinEnergie on the move

RheinEnergie during the turning maneuver

All passenger decks can be reached via ground-level entrances and an elevator built in amidships for disabled and wheelchair users. The maximum permissible capacity was set at 1650 passengers, the occupancy, which the shipping company considers optimal, is given as 400 to 1000 people. Optionally, depending on the occasion, light and show technology with color lasers as well as monitors, projectors and other event technology can be provided for the ship.

technology

The ship is powered by two 8-cylinder diesel engines of 820  kW each of the type Deutz TBD620V8 via two Schottel twin propellers . The two transverse thruster systems (bow thrusters) from De Gerlien-Van Tiem each have a MAN diesel engine with a drive power of 250 kW. The ship is 90.24 m long, 19.30 m wide and 10.30 m high. The maximum draft is given as 1.56 m.

literature

• Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Marienhausen 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9
• Stephan Nuding: 175 years of Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG , Schardt Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-8984-1035-9

Web links

Commons : RheinEnergie (ship)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Page about RheinEnergie on the Cologne-Düsseldorfer website , accessed on August 11, 2020
• Entry for RheinEnergie on the Dutch ship database www.debinnenvaart.nl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826–2004 , pp. 924–926
2. ↑ Annual Report 2003 of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 21, 2010 
3. ↑ Annual report 2009 according to IFRS of Köln-Düsseldorfer, p. 8 , accessed on August 9, 2020
4. ↑ KD with Maltese flag , Kölnische Rundschau of April 8, 2009 , accessed on April 24, 2017
5. ↑ AMPHI FESTIVAL 2016 - TICKETS LIMITED TO 12,000 ITEMS !!! April 29, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Folder with the RheinEnergie floor plan on the Cologne-Düsseldorfer website ( memento of the original from January 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 21, 2010 
7. ↑ Description of the ship on the Köln-Düsseldorfer website.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 21, 2010