Murten (ship)
 2019 on the Murten lake
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The Murten is a passenger ship built in 1925 that has been operating on Lake Murten in Switzerland since 2016 .
Construction and technical data
The ship was built in 1925 with hull number 480 at the Georg Schuldt shipyard in Stralsund for the Schwerin entrepreneur Carl Schröder. The construction costs were 20,000 Reichsmarks . The ship was 21.60 m long (21.13 m in the construction waterline ) and 4.42 m wide (4.30 m Frame ). The draft was 1.10 m empty, 1.35 m loaded, the water displacement 23.8 tons . A 2-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine from Deutz with 50 hp produced a speed of 14.8 km / h (8 knots ) via a three-bladed propeller . The hull was made of steel. On the full-length deck there were open seats under a sunroof in front of the wheelhouse , behind the wheelhouse a passenger compartment and behind it again open seats under a fixed roof. In total, the ship had 128 seats and up to 50 standing places. The crew consisted of three men.
history
When completed, the ship left, the name Hindenburg baptized Stralsund on May 8, 1925 to discuss the Baltic Sea , the Travelodge , the Elbe-Lübeck Canal , the Elbe , the Elde and Störkanal to Schwerin to be transferred. On the afternoon of May 13, 1925, the Hindenburg reached Lake Schwerin . On May 16, 1926, she took up passenger service there.
During the Second World War , the ship remained laid up from 1940 to 1945 due to lack of personnel and fuel . On April 21, 1946 it was reinstated , initially nameless, but a little later under the new name Schwerin , now without a sun roof over the forecastle. To prevent a feared expropriation , Carl Schröder junior had the ship renamed to Soviet friendship on September 9, 1950 .
In spite of this, the company became public property in 1953 as “ VEB Weisse Flotte Schwerin”. From 1954 onwards the ship operated as a contract ship of the " VEB Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagbetriebe " (DSU), mainly in the regular service between Schloss - Zippendorf - Rabbitwerder . In 1964 the chimney was shortened in order to be able to pass under Werderbrücken.
In 1967 the "VE (K) Nahverkehrsbetrieb Schwerin / Weisse Flotte division" had the ship modernized. The old engine was replaced by a 3-cylinder four-stroke SKL diesel engine with 75 hp of the type 3 NVD 21 from the Leipzig diesel engine plant. The wheelhouse has been moved up and the passenger capacity has been increased to a total of 176 seats: 80 open seats in front of the wheelhouse, 80 inside seats and 16 open seats in the stern. Further alterations were made in 1975/76 when the cabin companionway structure was removed and the wooden deck on the fore and aft was replaced by a steel deck. In 1977 a new chimney was installed. From 1978 the crew consisted of only two men.
After the end of the SED rule in 1990, the ship was given the new name Mecklenburg . Almost two years later the ships of the Schweriner Weisse Flotte were sold by the Treuhandanstalt to private owners, the " Weisse Flotte Fahrgastschifffahrt Schwerin GmbH ". Under their flag, the Mecklenburg was in regular service up to and including the 2004 season on the Schloss-Zippendorf-Rabbitwerder ferry route. Even at the beginning of the following season there were occasional missions, including to Frankenhorst on the southern tip of the Ziegelsee . It was only with the introduction of the 3-lake route as a mixed offer of ferry and managed tours in the middle of the 2005 season that the ship was no longer used and then put out of service and parked in an operational state. For the 2009 Federal Horticultural Show it was refurbished and used several times. In the following two years it was only used sporadically and finally sold.
On November 1, 2011 , after more than 86 years, the Mecklenburg finally left the Schwerin waters. After a journey of eleven days, she arrived in Heidelberg on November 12, 2011, where her new owners, the “ Weisse Flotte Heidelberg ”, had given her a new job as a passenger ferry on the Neckar. At the Philipp Ebert & Söhne shipyard in Neckarsteinach , it was completely overhauled and also equipped with a new engine. A jury consisting of Nils Weber from the Freundeskreis Neckar ferry, the managing director of the “ Weisse Flotte Heidelberg ” Karl Hofstätter, the former partner of the “ Weisse Flotte Heidelberg ” Manfred Boßler and the editor of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung Birgit Sommer chose the name Liselotte von der Pfalz for the ferry. On May 10, 2012, the ship was christened with the newly chosen name and on July 24 it was first used on the Neckar. Since August 1, 2012, it has been using the Neckar in Heidelberg between the Old Bridge and the Marriott Hotel as a passenger ferry.
In December 2015 the ship was sold to Switzerland, where it will operate as Murten on Lake Murten from 2016 .
Web links
- MS Mecklenburg (today MS Liselotte von der Pfalz ), at schifffahrt-schwerin.de
- Vintage cars at the Werderstrasse pier
- The Liselotte of the Palatinate
- Short film, Nov 12, 2011 Arrival of the Mecklenburg in Heidelberg
- Short film of the first voyage after the ship was christened
- Short film of the first voyage after the ship was christened
Notes and individual references
- ↑ In 1910, Schröder had bought up all of his competitors' ships in shipping on the Schwerin waters and had thus become the only provider.
- ^ Die Mecklenburg , March 2012 in Neckarsteinach, at www.shipspotting.com
- ↑ Birgit Sommer: "Mecklenburg" becomes "Liselotte". In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. November 25, 2011, accessed on June 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Timo Teufert: Heidelberger Fähre: This is the new "Liselotte" , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , December 21, 2015
- ↑ motor vessel MS Murten , Olagomio.