Main ferry Segnitz

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The former Segnitz Main ferry was a ferry on the Main . It ran between Segnitz and the opposite Marktbreit in today's Kitzingen district . With the construction of the Segnitz Main Bridge in 1893, the ferry was abandoned.

history

The ferry was first mentioned in 1454. The then village lord of Segnitz, Engelhard von Seinsheim , had the rights of his rule recorded in a book. In Segnitz there was therefore a driving correctness that was operated by so-called "Fergen", i.e. ferries. However, the Segnitz ferrymen were assigned to the court in Niedernbreit, today's Marktbreit. However, it is likely that the transition existed before.

In 1500 the abbot Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen from the Auhausen monastery redefined the ferry rights for Segnitz. So you used two different ferries for the transport. The ferry was probably handed over to so-called inventory, which received the ferry rights in lease from the municipality or the village authorities. In 1573 the Segnitzer ferrymen delivered sand to pave the Marktbreiter Schustergasse.

After the Thirty Years' War , in 1658, the ferrymen Martin Ziegler and Christoph Bender's widow quarreled with the Segnitz community. The ferrymen had failed to put up a board with the tariffs for the crossing. The village lords of Segnitz took part in the dispute on both sides. Ultimately, a commission was set up that concluded that the community should buy the ferry's rights. A new ferry was not bought until 1657.

Martin Ziegler then sold his share, while Katharina Bender, now married to Georg Furkel, retained the right. In 1784 the ferry traffic was temporarily suspended because a flood made the crossing impossible. In 1796 the ferryman Wolfgang Merck was obliged to cross over French soldiers. Towards the end of the 18th century, the traffic at the ferry station increased dramatically and led to some problems in the period that followed.

With the growing timber trade on the Main, the new area was established directly above the ferry station. Access to the ferry was blocked for the wagons that wanted to cross over. In 1852 the ferryman Georg Furkel junior appealed to the district court of Ochsenfurt . Nevertheless, even in 1870, the wooden landing area hindered the ferry station and made it difficult for the ferries Georg Furkel junior and Christoph Reichenbach to earn a living.

In 1882 Segnitz received the approval to lay a cross chain through the Main. The plan was not carried out because chain shipping was soon established on a longitudinal chain . In the course of industrialization , the Marktbreiter and Segnitz entrepreneurs pushed for the construction of a bridge, which was finally inaugurated on December 3, 1893. In 1896, the last ferryman, Georg Furkel junior, was resigned .

The Segnitzer Mainbrücke was blown up in the last days of the Second World War , on the night of April 3rd to 4th, 1945, in a senseless retreat by the Wehrmacht . A short time later, the people of Segnitz were planning to rebuild their bridge. Nevertheless, between 1945 and May 15, 1949, the inauguration day of the new Main Bridge, another Schelch ferry operated on the Main.

technology

Two different ferries existed in Segnitz as early as the early modern times . Four horses, four people and 18 buckets of wine could be carried across on a large schelch , while a smaller boat could hold 12 people. In the 19th century, the system was replaced by a metal ferry that was powered by an engine. During the rebuilding of the Segnitzer Mainbrücke there was another Schelch.

See also

literature

  • Norbert Bischoff: Stories from the history of Segnitz (= local history worldwide) . Münsterschwarzach 1999.
  • Otto Selzer: Fords and ferries in the Kitzingen district (2) . In: In the Bannkreis des Schwanbergs 1961. Heimat-Jahrbuch for the Kitzingen district . Kitzingen 1961. pp. 128-138.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selzer, Otto: Fuhrten and ferries in the district of Kitzingen (2) . P. 135.
  2. ↑ Selzer, Otto: Fuhrten and ferries in the district of Kitzingen (2) . P. 136.
  3. ↑ Bischoff, Norbert: Stories from the history of Segnitz . P. 91.

Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 11.3 "  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 39.5"  E