New Germersheim shipyard
The Neue Germersheimer Schiffswerft was a German inland shipyard based in Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The shipbuilding company was founded in 1927 as Oberrheinische Schiffswerft Spatz & Co GmbH . In 1953 the shipping company Reichel & Co took a stake in the company, the name of which was changed to Germersheim shipyard . After the Germersheim shipyard had to file for bankruptcy in the fall of 1988, the Neue Germersheim shipyard was formed as a rescue company . The majority of the shares were held by Ludwig and Jakob Götz KG . This was able to assert itself on the market again for a few years, but had to finally stop operating in 2002. In 2009 the shipyard was the location for the Tatort episode Death on the Rhine .
Ships
Initially, the shipyard mainly built inland cargo ships and push units, later it also added the production of tugs, tankers, passenger ships and other special vehicles to its program. The company attracted international attention when it built the tug Zongwe (construction number 698) and the coaster Lukuga (construction number 697) in 1974/75 , both of which were used on Lake Tanganyika . The ships were prefabricated in individual parts in Germersheim and finally assembled on site. These two orders marked the beginning of a phase of successful international business. The company, which employed around 140 workers at the time, was able to export the ships it manufactured over the next 15 years, mainly to Africa ( Egypt , Gambia , Congo , Senegal , Sudan , Togo and Zaire ) and Southeast Asia ( Bangladesh and Thailand ).
Combined ferry Le Joola
In 1990, the combined ferry Le Joola (construction number 847) was launched at the shipyard and was intended for ferry service on the coast of the Republic of Senegal. The 80 meter long and 12.50 meter wide ship, which was designed for 536 passengers and 44 crew members, was considered to be one of the largest ships built on the Upper Rhine at the time. It reached a speed of 14 knots.
In Senegal, the Le Joola operated between the capital Dakar and the port city of Ziguinchor . In September 2002, the completely overloaded ferry overturned off the coast of Senegal. More than 1,800 people were killed in the accident. Only 64 people could be saved alive. The sinking is considered the third largest shipping disaster after the Doña Paz and Kiang Ya since the Second World War .
Rhine ferry Rhenanus
The Rhine ferry Rhenanus , built at the Neue Schiffswerft Germersheim, runs between the German Kappel-Grafenhausen and the French Rhinau . It is the largest of the three Rhine ferries in the Conseil Général du Bas-Rhin area; their use is free and goes back to the Franco-German friendship treaty ( Élysée Treaty ) of 1963.
Technical specifications:
- Builder: Neue Germersheimer Schiffswerft, Germersheim, D
- Construction no .: 868
- Year of construction: 1998
- Crew: 1-2 ferrymen
- Length over flaps: approx. 53 m
- Length of the hull: approx. 41 m
- Length of flaps: approx. 6 m
- Width: approx. 12.50 m
- Draft: approx. 1.60 m
- Drive: 4 × SCHOTTEL Pump-Jet SPJ57
- Load capacity: approx. 80 tons or up to 30 vehicles (each max. 3.5 t) or 300 people
Like the smaller Rhine ferry Drusus, the Rhenanus is serviced at the Karcher shipyard in Freistett .
literature
in order of appearance
- Hans-Jürgen Walzer: Inland shipping yards - specialists for special ships and service points for inland shipping . In: Heide Ringhand: The inland shipping . Flowing streets - living rivers . Published in cooperation with the Bundesverband der Deutschen Binnenschiffahrt e. V. BeRing Verlag, Velbert-Neviges 1992, ISBN 3-925636-16-1 , pp. 156-157.
- Frank Gausmann: The economic development . In: Germersheim in the 20th Century - Paths from a fortress city to the center of Europe . Edited by Michael Kißener , Verlag Regionalkultur , Ubstadt-Weiher 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-533-0 , pp. 86–116, here pp. 97f.
- Sebastian Parzer: The history of the Germersheim shipyard - the company manufactured for customers all over the world . In: Pfälzer Heimat - Journal of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research . 61 Jg, Speyer 2010, ISSN 0031-6679 , pp. 71-74.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ferry "Le Joola" for the Republic of Senegal . In: Maritime Advisory Board Hansa (Ed.): Hansa - shipping, shipbuilding, port . 128 vol., No. 6 . Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa , 1991, ISSN 0017-7504 , p. 303–306 , here p. 305 ( full text [PDF; 6.0 MB ; accessed on September 25, 2018]).
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Walzer: Inland shipyards - specialists for special ships and service points for inland navigation. - Inland shipping. Flowing streets - living rivers . Ed .: Heide Ringhand in collaboration with the BDB . BeRing Verlag, Velbert-Neviges 1992, ISBN 3-925636-16-1 , p. 157 .
- ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , October 1, 2002