Neckar captain

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Neckar-Personen-Schiffahrt Berta Epple GmbH + Co KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1956
Seat Stuttgart , Germany
management Wolfgang Thie
Number of employees 16
Branch shipping
Website www.neckar-kaeptn.de
As of December 31, 2018

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Neckar-Käpt'n is the name under which the Neckar-person navigation Berta Epple GmbH + Co KG in Stuttgart , the passenger shipping in the season Easter to October on the Neckar operates.

history

The Neckar has been used as a transport route for centuries. In 1921 work began on expanding the Neckar into a large shipping route with barrages. In 1956 the Neckar was navigable as far as Stuttgart thanks to the canalisation . The expansion of the Stuttgart port took place until 1958. At that time only cargo ships sailed the Neckar. When the expansion of the Neckar Canal from Heilbronn to Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt was nearing completion in the late 1950s , Karl Epple (1893–1961), the founder of the gravel and civil engineering company of the same name, and his wife Berta Epple agreed that now Stuttgart, as a future port city, should also be accessible to passenger shipping.

MS Stuttgart on the Neckar

In 1956 the company "Neckar-Personen-Schiffahrt Berta Epple" was founded and the first two ships were commissioned from the Schmidt & Sons shipyard in Oberkassel (Bonn) . Meanwhile, 15 landing stages have been set up between Stuttgart and Heilbronn - partly with the help of the municipalities . With the christening of the “Stuttgart” by Ms. Yvonne Klett, the wife of the Lord Mayor of Stuttgart Arnulf Klett , on March 7, 1957, the two sister ships “Dorothea Epple” and “Stuttgart” began regular shipping operations in Bad Cannstatt.

The inauguration of the port of Stuttgart on March 31, 1958 by Federal President Theodor Heuss also aroused the people of Stuttgart's interest in their own port and in shipping, so that Berta Epple built other, mostly smaller units for tours and put them into service let. So their fleet temporarily comprised seven ships with a total capacity of around 2,500 places.

In 1964 the son Fritz Epple took over the management and after the death of his mother in 1965 the company became the sole owner. For 40 years the Epple company operated the passenger ships under the abbreviation NPS on the route Plochingen - Esslingen am Neckar - Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Marbach am Neckar - Besigheim - Lauffen am Neckar - Heilbronn . In 1997 Wolfgang and Susanne Thie took over the management. The couple gave the company the new name "Neckar-Käpt'n". In 2008 the Neckar captain put the 1st Stuttgart party raft into service. It can accommodate up to 200 people and offers up to 100 m² of open space.

At the end of 2019 it was announced that Wolfgang and Susanne Thie had sold the company after they had been in the red in previous years.

Ships

Current Neckar Captain ships

  • MS Wilhelma (II) (flagship)
    Length: 37.20 m
    Width: 7.30 m
    Load capacity: 67 t
  • Neckar broom (formerly party raft)
    Length: 25.55 m
    Width: 9.8 m
    Load capacity: 25 t
  • MS Bad Cannstatt (stationary)

Historic ships

The years in which the ship was used on the Neckar for the Neckar-Personen-Schiffahrt Berta Epple and Neckar-Käpt'n are given in brackets.

  • MS Stuttgart (1957 to 2017)
    Length: 29.30 m,
    Width: 4.88 m,
    Load capacity: 34 t
  • MS Dorothea Epple (1957 to 1964)
  • MS Berta Epple (1958 to 2004)
  • MS Wilhelma (I) (1958 to 1962)
  • MS Rosenstein (1959 to 1965)
  • MS Lichstenstein (1961 to 2003)
    Length: 29.30 m,
    Width: 4.88 m,
    Load capacity: 34 t
  • MS Lukullus (1962 to 1981)
    Length: 25.0 m,
    Width: 4.33 m,
    Load capacity: 25 t
  • MS Liberty (2003 to 2017)

Moorings

There are currently 20 berths between Esslingen am Neckar and Besigheim , 5 of which are only approached when required (as of May 18, 2020):

Trivia

The music formation of the same name that emerged from Tango Five has been named in honor of Berta Epple .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ a b c d e Uwe Bogen: Sale of the Cannstatter ship fleet. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. Stuttgarter Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, November 29, 2019, accessed on February 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Our ships and the Neckar broom. In: neckar-kaeptn.de. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Historic ships of the Neckar-Personen-Schiffahrt Berta Epple GmbH + Co. KG , www.neckar-kaeptn.de
  5. ↑ Neckar with all Neckar-Käpt'n landing stages. In: neckar-kaeptn.de. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .