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 The Besanewer Moewe in Hamburg's Hansahafen
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The Moewe is a besanewer that was delivered in 1907 by Johann Heinrich Fack's shipyard in Itzehoe for Martin N. Fischer from Wilster .
history
The Ewer have been known as a ship type since 1252 and have been used in the North and Baltic Seas since around 1800. Ewer with two masts are called mizzenewers. The Moewe was operated by Fischer as a freighter and mainly transported coal from Hamburg to Lägerdorf and cement from the Lägerdorfer cement factory to Hamburg. In order to be able to pass the lock and bridges of the Lägerdorfer Canal, it was built as a so-called Lägerdorfer Ewer and the width of 4.20 meters was not allowed to be exceeded because of the Breitenburger Stördeichschleuse near Münsterburg.
After the sale, the Moewe was converted for use in inland shipping . To do this, the mizzen mast was removed, the ship was extended by 5 meters and an engine was installed.
In the 1960s, the Ewer was decommissioned as a cargo ship and then used as a residential ship and redesigned by the next owner both on the engine side and on the deck. In 1977 the next owner, the wood carver Bernd Alm from Hamburg, took over the ship. It restores the original state. For this purpose, the mizzen mast was erected again, the Ewer shortened again, largely restored and also provided with many elaborate carvings.
After a long lay-in period , the Ewer was handed over to the Museumshafen Oevelgönne as the new owner in 1997 and has since been looked after by the Möwe Association. In 1984 the Moewe was honored by the International Congress of Maritime Museums in Hamburg for restoration true to the original.
technical description
The mizzenewer riveted out of steel and rigged as a gaff ketch has a sail area of around 150 m² and a flat floor. It is measured at a length of around 18 meters, a width of 4.1 meters and a draft of 1 meter with 31 GRT. The drive power of the machine is 28 HP. It is set up to accommodate 12 people.
literature
- Hans Szymanski: The Ever der Niederelbe (1932) . Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86741-726-6 .
See also
- Milch-Ewer , flat-bottomed sailing ships serving as freighters, with which dairy products were transported from the rural area via the Elbe and Alster to the cities of Hamburg and Altona from the 17th to the end of the 19th century
- Flat bottom ship , generic term