Rangers

Rangers were called the guild-like boatmen / shipowners who were responsible for the regular transport of goods on the river. They were contractually bound to a city or a merchant. They regulated the number of trips and the chronological order as well as the order (rank) of the valley and mountain journeys (with or against the current of the river).

The ships on the Main were mostly "grained" (with horses called Leinreiter, pulled up the river).

With the use of chain shipping on the Main at the end of the 19th century, towing became superfluous and steam shipping was regulated by the authorities.

Rangschifffahrt on the Main

Aschaffenburg

Here the rank shipping was in the hands of the Kittel family . The landing stage was on the banks of the Main in front of the Fischerviertel with the Kittel'schen Kranen built in 1811 and the shipbuilding site at today's Lamprechtstrasse (from 1891 part of the newly built raft and trading port) as well as the area around the crane wall at Theodorichstor, which was used as a protective and Winterhafen was expanded and then temporarily used for a slipway for the final assembly of chain ships.

Most of the Leinreiter came from Leider and Mainaschaff .

Bamberg

In 1807 the Bamberg Rangschifffahrt was founded; there were fifteen families of ranks (including Messerschmitt , Stöcklein, Weyermann and Karl). The tomb of the ranger Michael Karl is in the church Obere Pfarre (Bamberg) . Central locations for shipping in Bamberg were the shipyard at the shipbuilding site and the ship wintering at the pasture.

literature

Karl H Hartmann .: Bamberg's ranks on the Main and Regnitz , Mediengruppe Oberfranken 2008
Karl-Heinz Artmann [Hrsg.]: Chronicle of the Messerschmitt family, Bamberg. Rangers, brewers, wine merchants in the 18th and 19th centuries , Artmann, Hirschaid 1993

Individual evidence

^ Harm-Hinrich Brandt : A small find from the time of the great anger. In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburgs Stadt- und Universitätsgeschichte, 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 20–23, here: p. 20

[1] Harm-Hinrich Brandt : A small find from the time of the great anger. In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburgs Stadt- und Universitätsgeschichte, 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 20–23, here: p. 20