Prince Heinrich (ship, 1909)
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The traditional ship Prinz Heinrich is a former mail and passenger steamer that was operated from 1909 to 1969 in the liner service between Emden and Borkum .
Island traffic / seaside resort service
The Prinz Heinrich was built in 1909 as construction no. 240 built by the Papenburg shipyard Josef L. Meyer for passenger and mail traffic between Emden and the North Sea island of Borkum by the Borkumer Kleinbahn- und Dampfschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft in Emden. The reason for ordering the ship was, apart from the increasing number of bathing guests, the expansion of Borkum into a coastal fortress in the German Empire . The construction price was 104,500 Reichsmarks.
In 1953 the ship was renamed Hessen and in 1958 the Hessen was sold to the shipping company "Aktiengesellschaft Ems" in Emden. The new owners had the Hessians converted into a motor ship at the C. Cassens shipyard in Emden . The two six-cylinder diesel engines each developed 215 hp and thus enabled a speed of 11 knots.
From then on, the passenger ship was able to carry 390 people with a crew of 11.
Museum ship
After its decommissioning in 1969, the ship was sold to the Hildesheim couple Mady and Reinhold Kasten , who transformed it into a stationary museum ship with an overseas exhibition at the new berth in the Holstenhafen near Lübeck's old town and not far from the Holsten Gate under the name Mississippi . The museum ship was sold to Rostock-Warnemünde in 2002 . The overseas exhibition was later moved to a building next to the lighthouse.
Traditional ship
In 2003 the newly founded association “Traditionsschiff Prinz Heinrich” e. V. in Leer took the ship from the last owner in Rostock and brought the former seaside resort steamer to Leer. In the same year the Prinz Heinrich was recognized as a movable monument by the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation in Hanover. Since the end of the extensive restoration in 2018, the ship has been largely in its original condition at the historic berth on the Nesse shore in the leisure harbor in Leer as a museum ship, houses an exhibition on shipping in the Ems- Dollart region and the Leeran herring fishery and sails again under among other things on their former route to Borkum.
Regional cultural monument
The Prinz Heinrich is one of the oldest surviving passenger ships of this type in Germany. Thanks to its construction at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg and the sixty years of service in the post, supply and pool service between Emden and the North Sea island of Borkum for an East Frisian shipping company, it also has a very strong connection to the region. The berth in the port of Leer was already being used as such when the ship was built and thus underlines its use as a floating cultural monument of the maritime history of East Frisia and Leer.
Similar ships
- The salon and haulage steamer Alexandra from Flensburg, built just a year earlier, still exists as a ship of a similar shape and is considered a comparable floating cultural monument.
- Another very similar ship from the Jos shipyard. L. Meyer can still be seen in a gravel bed on land in the Baltic Sea resort of Damp . The steamer Albatros was built in 1912 for the same shipping company that owned the Alexandra . As a combined freight and passenger steamer, with the option of transporting live cattle in the winter half-year, he switched to the newly founded Förde shipping company with the Alexandra and a similar ship in 1935 and was still in service in 1970. A few years later the ship came to the newly built seaside resort Damp 2000, was put ashore and has since been used by various organizations. The original steam engine is still on board; the boiler had to give way to a showroom.
Web links
Individual evidence
- Homepage of the association “Traditionsschiff Prinz Heinrich” e. V.
- The Prince Heinrich on the German Foundation for Monument Protection ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- The Prince Heinrich on DTMV (pdf) (1.63 MB)
literature
- Rolf Eilers, Klaus-Peter Kiedel: Meyer Werft · Six generations of shipbuilding in Papenburg 1795-1988 . Papenburg 1988
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Stefan Lipsky and Heinz Trost: Veteran and museum ships . 3rd edition, Bad Segeberg and Cuxhaven 1997.
- Bernd Kappelhoff: The ferry to the mainland . Emden 1989
- Andreas Westphalen: Steamships in Germany . Bremen 2003