Rheinwerft Walsum

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The Rheinwerft Walsum was part of the Gutehoffnungshütte Sterkrade and successor to the Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen shipyard , which existed in Ruhrort as early as 1830 . It officially carried the company name "Gutehoffnungshütte Sterkrade AG, Sterkrade plant, Dept. Rheinwerft Walsum". The shipbuilding company, located in what is now Duisburg's Walsum district , was considered to be the most efficient inland shipyard in Germany.

history

After Gutehoffnungshütte had already been successfully involved in shipbuilding in Ruhrort in the 19th century , the shipyard was relocated from Ruhrort to Walsum in 1919 . As early as 1922, the company was able to attract attention in German shipbuilding when the "Franz Haniel XXVIII", Germany's first diesel engine tug, was manufactured. In 1936 the company dared to build the first motor ship . By the outbreak of the Second World War, the company had already built 630 units and was increasingly used during the war to manufacture landing craft and to build sections for submarine class XXI boats.

Multi-purpose ship Scharhörn in the port of Kiel

In the 1950s, the company was able to build on the success of the pre-war period. During this time the company, which at that time employed more than 400 workers, had 15 slipways, each 100 m long. In 1963 the shipyard delivered its 1000th new building. Although the company was mainly active in the construction of inland waterway vessels, seagoing vessels were also manufactured in Walsum in the years after the Second World War. In 1974, for example, the 56-meter-long supply ship “Ostertor” (1305 GT ) left the slipway of the shipbuilding company, which was later converted into the Scharhörn oil combat ship. The shipyard also built the first ship to incinerate toxic waste at sea in 1979. The Rheinwerft Walsum was the largest inland shipyard on the Rhine.

In 1982 the shipyard was closed. In the LVR industrial museum in Oberhausen, a model shows an excerpt from the former shipyard.

Individual evidence

  1. Handbook of German Merchant Shipping 1958, ed. from the Federal Minister of Transport, Bonn 1958, p. 487.

literature

  • 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, ports, Hamburg 1964, p. M 107.
  • Rudolf Stampfuß : The south port and the Rhine shipyard of Gutehoffnungshütte , in: Rudolf Stampfuß: Walsum - From the village to the industrial community, Walsum o. J. (1955), pages 65-67

Web links

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