Marschwerft
The march shipyard on the Moorreger Deich der Pinnau existed from around 1735 to 1929 and was the oldest shipbuilding company in the Uetersen area. The company called Marsch-Werft due to its location was also known as the Schedelgar-Werft or the student shipyard under its respective owners .
history
The beginnings of the Marschwerft
Around 1735 the Marschwerft was founded on a large but flat terp in Klevendeich (the name for the Moorreger Deich at the time) on the banks of the Pinnau by a ship's carpenter. The widow of the later owner Johann Hinrich Cremer remarried, whereby the shipyard came into the possession of Claus Nothdorf in 1776. He drowned when a boat was delivered.
Schedelgar shipyard
His successor was the shipbuilder Detlef Friedrich Schedelgar, who built a house on the remains of an old dike. The shipyard's building program included wooden galeas , yachts , schooners , cutters and ewer . Due to the shallow water depth of the then still narrow Pinnau, the ships only reached a size of up to 20 tons. From 1907 the shipyard was converted to the construction of iron ships and the shipyard was expanded to include several helges.
Student shipyard
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On June 1, 1911, the Schedelgar family sold the business, on which ships with an average loading weight of 100 t could already be built, to the locksmith Wilhelm Schüler. Together with his brother Gottlieb Schüler, he wanted to repair ships and agricultural machinery, but Gottlieb left the company after a short time. Wilhelm began building barges at the initially unprofitable shipyard, as he had family ties to Hamburg barge owners. Up until the beginning of the First World War, the shipyard built a number of port launches and cargo boats for the transport of general cargo in the port of Hamburg or for shipyard workers and passengers. After the outbreak of war, pupils were drafted into the navy and due to the shortage of materials, with the remaining workforce and the help of Detlef Schedelgar from the JH Jacobs shipyard, only four barges ordered before the outbreak of war were completed.
The first order after the end of the First World War was a small tugboat for the Starck company in Uetersen. Soon afterwards, barges for the Port of Hamburg and its shipyards began to be built again. The business expanded to include tractors for the Netherlands and coffee lighters for Brazil, whereby the workforce grew to 25-30 men by the time of inflation. In the years 1923 to 1926 the shipyard was working to full capacity, the technical equipment of the shipyard was expanded and around one barge worth around £ 120 was delivered per month.
In the second half of the 1920s, the student shipyard's order volume decreased more and more due to the rising competition from neighboring Holland. After individual barges had been built by Schüler until 1928, operations finally came to a complete standstill by 1929, after which the shipyard closed its doors. Around 120 new buildings were built under the aegis of Schülers in 1911. Some of the barges built by Schüler have been preserved .
In 1929 the director of Norag (Norddeutsche Rundfunk AG), Hans Bodenstedt , bought the yard. He had the shipyard demolished and the house in the Schülerschen shipyard rebuilt. The building still stands today on the Moorreger dyke, opposite the former Schinkel mill on the monastery dyke.
literature
- Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen, Volume I, IV part, pages 403-416: Shipping, traffic and banks (1932)
- Lothar Mosler : Uetersen, history and stories 1234–1984 (in 1867 the boatmen's guild "Emanuel" was founded) (1984)
- City of Uetersen: 750 years of Uetersen - Lothar Mosler - From knight seat to city of roses (1984)
- City of Uetersen: 775 years of Uetersen - Marlen Sönnichsen - Uetersen and the Pinnau (the importance of the river) (2009)
- Uetersener Nachrichten from Saturday / Sunday, December 6th / 7th, 2003 - Marlen Sönnichsen: The Pinnau / Marsch and Geest shipyards (Nothdorf-Schedelgar student shipyard)
- Uetersener Nachrichten from Saturday / Sunday, 13./14. December 2003 - Marlen Sönnichsen: The Pinnau / Jacobs shipyard in Moorrege (Schedelgar / Fink / Jacobs shipyard)
