Norderwerft
| Norderwerft Repair GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1906 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| management | Hans-Joachim Theile |
| Website | www.norderwerft.de |
The Norderwerft in Hamburg belongs since 2012 to Lürssen - Werft group . The company premises are located on Steinwerder on Reiherstieg .
The Norderwerft has three docks and a 450 m long quay with three berths . Dock 1 is 164 m long, 28 m wide and can accommodate ships up to 12,500 t, Dock 2 is 118 m long, 24 m wide and has a carrying capacity of 5,500 t, Dock 3 is 150 m long, 23.5 m wide and set up for a load capacity of 5,000 t.
history
The shipyard was founded by Reinhold F. Holtz. After the capacity of the premises of his Schlosswerft Reinhold F. Holtz (at Harburg Castle in Harburg ) was no longer sufficient, he leased the area at Reiherstieg on August 1, 1906 and laid five slipways on it by 1908 (designed for ships up to 600 t) on. In 1912 a floating dock with a lifting capacity of 1000 t followed. In addition to the new building, the shipyard was intensively involved in the conversion and repairs of ships . Initially, the Imperial Navy, the Hamburg Senate and foreign clients were the main customers.
In 1918 the shipyard was bought by Hamburg merchants who at the same time also bought the Elbe shipyard in Boizenburg . The United Elbe- und Norderwerft Aktiengesellschaft was created, but in 1921 it became Norderwerft AG again when the Elbe shipyard was separated. The shipyard was doubled and expanded and renewed again and again in order to meet the requirements. At times, up to 954 people were employed at the shipyard, which in 1936 became the private company Norderwerft Köser & Meyer . In April 1923, the shipyard delivered the Hermes, one of the first German motor recovery tugs . In 1925, Count Luckner had his four-masted schooner Vaterland rebuilt there.
After the Second World War , the shipyard, which had been completely destroyed, was rebuilt and operations resumed, so that the first new building was launched in 1948. Freighters and tankers, but also icebreakers, coos, ferries, barges and fishing vessels were rebuilt. Including the seaside resort ship Bunte Kuh and the conversion of a barge into a river boat church . From 1945 to 1967 the engineer Johann Köser, who had held a management post since 1921, was the sole owner of the shipyard.
1972 - Takeover by the Sietas shipyard
In 1971, the shipyard ran into financial difficulties due to increasing price pressure in shipbuilding . It was first saved with the help of the Hamburg Senate and then on January 2, 1972 by Johann Jacob Sietas, the owner of the JJ Sietas KG Schiffswerft GmbH u. Co. taken over and integrated into the Sietas group of companies as a limited partnership Norderwerft GmbH & Co. In 1980, new construction operations at the Norderwerft were discontinued. After that, the company deals exclusively with the repair and conversion of ships. In addition, the Norderwerft took over the final production of such Sietas ships whose width was 22 meters and thus exceeded the passage width of the old Estes barrage . Corresponding double-hulled ships , which Sietas built from 1993, for example with the Type 150 , were towed to the Norderwerft and completed there with the outer hull missing amidships , but the inner hull already fully assembled. In 1996 the Norderwerft delivered its own new building for Sietas for the first time with the Osnabrück .
The Norderwerft was busy as a repair yard and was in the black every year from 2006 to 2012. Sales were between 25 million and 48 million euros.
2012 - Takeover by Lürssen
After the bankruptcy of the Sietas shipyard, the Norder shipyard was taken over by Ms. Lürssen shipyard on October 1, 2012 , making it the fifth location of the Lürssen shipyard group. Lürssen took over the entire workforce of around 100 employees and has meanwhile signed a new lease agreement for the site with the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) for 30 years.
See also
Web links
- Website of KG Norderwerft GmbH & Co
- Early documents and newspaper articles about the Norderwerft in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shipyards are changing their minds . In: Hansa , issue 11/2014, p. 41, ISSN 0017-7504
- ↑ Dudszus, Alfred; Köpcke, Alfred: The big book of ship types . Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-831-7 (licensed edition by transpress, Berlin).
- ^ Rolf Zamponi: Friedrich Lürßen - the savior from Bremen , Hamburger Abendblatt , October 13, 2012.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 5.6 " N , 9 ° 58 ′ 26.5" E