Nüscke & Co.
The Nüscke & Co. Schiffswerft, Kesselschmiede und Maschinenbauanstalt AG was a shipyard in Stettin .
history
The oldest records of the shipyard go back to 1650, when the ship's carpenter Hans Nüscke acquired citizenship in Szczecin. Michael Nüscke I and his son, also Michael Nüscke (II), had built a shipbuilding site in Stettin and built ships for Stettin shipowners. From 1727 ships for the Prussian maritime trade were also built. It was mainly schooners Briggs and Galeassen that were built on these Szczecin shipbuilding sites, mainly for Szczecin shipowners.
The shipyard was always run by the Nüscke family at different building sites in Stettin and from 1815 in Grabow until 1928. From 1841 the first steamers were built at Nüscke.
In 1845 the 65-year-old Johann Christian Nüscke sold his shipyard for 9,000 thalers to his nephew Albert Emil Nüscke . Albert Emil Nüscke built several new ships as early as 1846, including the Cammin for the Cammin-Stettiner Dampfer-Gesellschaft, one of the first attempts at steam and wheel drive shipbuilding from Stettin and Grabow. In 1859 Nüscke built the two cannon boats Salamander and Schwalbe for the Prussian Navy.
On July 1, 1890, the open trading company Nüscke & Co. was founded in cooperation with the later shipyard director OC Peuss . In the same year, the conversion to iron shipbuilding took place. In 1903 the company became a stock corporation. In the 1920s, the company ran into difficulties in the wake of the global economic crisis . Due to the under-calculated construction costs of two ships for the Dutch account, the shipyard got into acute financial difficulties in 1928. The company was taken over by Deschimag , but they did nothing about the financial emergency and had Nüscke & Co. file for bankruptcy. In July 1929, the shipowner and shipyard owner Emil Retzlaff took over the shipbuilding business. Retzlaff's Ostseewerft in Frauendorf and Nüscke & Co. became the Merkur shipyard. This too had to file for bankruptcy in 1931.
Building program
Initially, mainly small ships were built at the shipyard, which grew significantly with the new shipyard site and larger building site in Stettin-Grabow from 1815. In addition to the typical brig , schooners were built , rarely a paddle steamer like the Cammin or the paddle- wheeled tug Delphin for the Stettin steam tugboat shipping company. Among other things, two steam cannon boats were built for the Prussian Navy in 1860.
From 1890 the program was expanded considerably and the first freight and passenger steamers were delivered. For the " Kaiser Wilhelm Canal " (today: Kiel Canal ), among other things, a series of three ferry boats were delivered to the Brunsbüttel Canal Office in 1911 . They were the Odin , Thor and Heimdall , free-moving, steam-powered trajectory ferries with a length of 30.4 m, a width of 11.45 m and a draft of 2.70 m. With their 280-hp steam engines, they could transport 60 people and six carts. The freight steamer Stettin , measured at around 3,000 GRT and delivered to the OPDR in 1917 , was the largest ship up until then, which was surpassed in 1925 with the freight steamer Merkator at 4,130 GRT.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Abert: The German merchant fleet 1870-1990. Elbe-Spree-Verlag, ISBN 3-931129-06-3 .
- Gottfried Loeck: Nüscke - the story of a shipyard . In: Reinart Schmelzkopf (Ed.): Strandgut 14 . Strandgut, Cuxhaven 1987, p. 127-148 .
Web links and sources
- Nüschke & Co. shipyard, boiler forge and mechanical engineering institute, A.-G., Stettin , maritime historical securities
- History of the company Nüscke & Co. Shipyard, boiler forge and mechanical engineering company , on the trail of the Rambow and Liesegang families
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the company Nüscke & Co. Schiffswerft, Kesselschmiede and Maschinenbauanstalt accessed on December 7, 2019
- ↑ Pictures of the ferries for the Kiel Canal , Dithmarschen-Wiki.