Neckar shipyard
The Neckar shipyard was a German inland shipyard based in Neckarsulm .
history
The shipyard on the Neckar in Neckarsulm was founded in 1872 by the Heilbronn shipbuilder Franz Bauhardt. The following year went to the city Neckarsulm the first ship from the stack , the first mass-Württemberg ship made of iron. In 1878, with an initial four chain touts the chain boat trip on the Neckar opened for the Neckarsulm operation produced the hull. When Bauhardt died in the same year, the company was acquired one year later by Schleppschiffahrt auf dem Neckar AG , which leased the company to the Swedish shipbuilder Julius Anderssen. A boiler forge was first mentioned in 1880. This year the company already employed 30 people. In the following years, more chain tugs were built, some of which were used on the Main . In addition, an iron steamship was built with the Württemberg in 1900 for traffic on Lake Constance. Finally, Anderssen was able to acquire the company from Schleppschiffahrt auf dem Neckar AG in 1901 .
In 1939, the Anderssen company decided to restructure its operations into a drawing and pressing plant and sold the shipyard to Mannheimer Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG . During the Second World War , the Neckarsulm factory site suffered severe damage. The shipbuilding company there had to be completely rebuilt at the end of the 1940s. With the Anna Maria , the first post-war ship was launched in 1949. While the company only employed around 30 people when it was taken over by the Mannheim shipyard, the number of employees rose to 100 in 1950.
In 1962, the owner of Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG Mannheim, Fendel Schiffahrts AG, gave up shipbuilding in the city of squares and sold the shipyard there to Halberger Hütte in Saarland . The Neckarsulm shipyard, however, remained in the possession of the Fendel Group, and its name was changed to Neckarwerft - Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG Neckarsulm . However, the construction list of the Mannheim company was continued.
In the course of its history, the Neckarsulm shipyard primarily manufactured inland cargo ships. In the 1970s, the company was able to carry out some special orders. In 1975, for example, the Neckarbummler passenger ship was built for Heilbronn passenger shipping . In 1979 the measuring boat Max Honsell followed . At the end of September 1984 the Neckar shipyard ceased operations. The site was acquired by Kolbenschmidt AG, which took over most of the shipbuilding company's workforce.
Some relics of the Neckar shipyard, a rivet hole punch and an anchor weighing around 700 kg are set up near the Neckarsulm museums. A board next to the relics names some milestones in the company's history.
See also
literature
- Willi A. Boelcke : From wine town to industrial town . In: Neckarsulm - The history of a city. Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0883-2 , pp. 265-300, here pp. 273-276 and p. 297.
- Sebastian Parzer: The shipbuilding and mechanical engineering AG Mannheim . In: Badische Heimat 1/2009, pp. 179–185.
Web links
- Detailed construction list of the shipyard. (No longer available online.) In: binnenschifferforum.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on December 10, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 24 ″ N , 9 ° 13 ′ 3 ″ E