Mermaid (ship, 1959)

mermaid

The mermaid as a ferry in Ochsenfurt

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Passenger ship / passenger ferry home port Ochsenfurt Shipyard Oberkassel shipyard Launch 1959

Ship dimensions and crew length 17.7 m ( Lüa ) width 4.4 m Draft Max. 0.8 m

Machine system machine Mercedes-Benz OM 352 Machine performance 91 hp

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 99

Others Registration numbers ENI number 4304570

The Nixe is a passenger ship that has long been used for ferry operations on the Rhine and is now based in Ochsenfurt .

history

Various information is in circulation about the ship's early years. According to the city of Ochsenfurt, the ship was built in 1959; According to a note from the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, it is said to have been used for port work in Rotterdam . According to other sources, however, it was already in ferry service between Remagen and Erpel in the late 1950s .

According to a report by A. Bohrer, the ship built at the Oberkassel shipyard was purchased for the Linz - Kripp ferry service on October 3, 1973 , but only served as a replacement vehicle there and was actually leased to be used for the connection between Remagen and Erpel to become. During floods, it was used from the emergency landing at the Stadtgarten and drove between Linz and Kripp.

State of the Ochsenfurt Main Bridge in 2009

After its successor of the same name went into operation on June 1, 2006, the Nixe was offered for sale by a ship broker in the Netherlands and in mid-2007 became the property of the city of Ochsenfurt for 43,000 euros. A ferry was needed there as long as the Old Main Bridge could not be used. The mermaid arrived in Ochsenfurt on July 1, 2007 after a seven-day transfer, was renovated and used as a ferry across the Main from September 23, 2007 . After the renovation work on the bridge was completed at the end of 2011, it was actually no longer needed in Ochsenfurt. Since the so-called old town ferry had meanwhile developed into a cult ship, a support association was founded, which took over the mermaid for a symbolic price of one euro and under whose direction the ship continues to sail from May to October in Ochsenfurt.

The mermaid in front of Marktbreit in March 2014

The ship is also used for panoramic trips on the Main.

The transfer of the mermaid from Rotterdam to Ochsenfurt was processed literarily in a book called 4 Men in a Boat .

Web links

Commons : Nixe (Schiff, 1959)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Representation of the old town ferry on ochsenfurt.de ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Beloved old lady: The 'Nixe' of Ochsenfurt (Between Spessart and Karwendel, May 12, 2013) In the film itself, the statement that the ship was used in the port of Rotterdam is not made. The comment on the linked page is probably based on an error, as the ship came to Ochsenfurt via Rotterdam.
3. ↑ History of the ship on herrlichkeit-erpel.de
4. ↑ ^{a b} A. Drills, motor boats and passenger ferries of the Linz ferry leaseholders (1905-today)
5. ↑ Thomas Fritz and Gerhard Meissner, Nixe takes course into the unknown , in: Mainpost, November 22, 2011
6. ↑ Homepage of the Friends' Association