Riesa (ship, 1897)
 Side paddle steamer Riesa in the outdoor area of the exhibition
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The Riesa paddle steamer was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1897 . The ship was under the name of Habsburg with the hull number 41 to set keel . It was named after the noble family of the Habsburgs . In 1919 it was named Riesa as the second ship . It was in use until 1976 and is now in the Oderberg Inland Shipping Museum .
history
The time after commissioning until 1945
After being launched on May 6, 1897, the ship was put into service as an upper deck steamer on May 23, 1897. It then drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) until 1923 . After the cessation of business operations, the ship sailed for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDA), which was newly founded in 1923 . The white painting of the ships, which was customary from 1926, earned it the name White Fleet . The ship was already equipped with a steam steering engine. It was built by the Übigau shipyard of the Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, chain, with factory no. 175 K. It was used for express trips between Dresden and Aussig . The ship was only equipped with 1st class seats. The price premium was 50%.
On June 17, 1901, the ship went to Aussig to receive Emperor Franz Joseph I. For this purpose it was festively decorated and the aft deck was converted into a luxurious saloon. The director of the SBDG, Ernst Kuchenbuch , was awarded the title of knight by the emperor on board the ship.
In 1913 the ship received an electrical system. In 1919, like all ships bearing the name of a monarch or a monarchy, it was renamed and on May 25th was named Riesa . In the winter of 1927/28, the wheel arches were removed for the installation of toilets. In the course of the renovation, the ship was painted white.
During the Second World War , the ship was stationed in Dessau as an office and transport ship for the Junkers works from 1943 . For this it was provided with a camouflage painting. After returning to Dresden in 1945 it was blown up in front of the Laubegaster shipyard by the Hitler Youth and set on the ground.
The time after 1945
The ship was lifted and completely overhauled in the shipyard. It received a completely new forecastle. On May 1, 1947, the ship went back into service.
The SBDA was transferred to public ownership on February 1, 1947 and was given the name VEB Elbeschiffahrt Sachsen . From 1950 to 1957 it belonged to the VEB Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagszentrale (DSU). After its dissolution, the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt und Reparaturwerft Dresden was established in 1957 and from 1967 the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt Dresden .
In 1948 the ship leaked and sank near Pirna after hitting the ground. It was lifted and started moving again after the repair.
In 1963 the ship was completely overhauled. The old boiler was replaced. For this purpose, the “White Fleet” bought the two cylinder boilers of the Scholl siblings' wheeled tractor, which was decommissioned in 1959 , from the VEB Deutsche Binnenreederei Berlin . While one of the boilers was installed in the Riesa , the other boiler was intended for the Bad Schandau .
In 1972 the boiler, which was too large for the ship, was replaced. The boiler of the tugboat Gertrud-Edith was installed . This ship, owned by private owner Otto Wilke, was in service with the White Fleet until 1971 and was dismantled in the shipyard in Aken in May 1972 .
In 1976 the ship had to be shut down because of another boiler damage. It escaped the planned scrapping through an initiative of the city of Oderberg . The director of the local history museum, Günter Hofmann, campaigned for the ship to be brought to Oderberg. The wheel arches were dismantled in order to bring it to the site via narrow channels. In August 1978 the ship was towed to Oderberg and taken ashore there on March 29, 1979. Since then it has been accessible to the public as a museum ship in the Inland Shipping Museum Oderberg .
The steam engine
The steam engine is an oscillating high-pressure two-cylinder compound steam engine with injection condensation. It was built by the Übigau shipyard of the Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, chain, with factory no. 159 k. The power was 145 PSi. Nothing is known about the steam boiler installed last .
Captains of the ship
- Gustav Adolf Thieme 1898–1901
- Otto Ernst Wilhelm Rüdrich 1902–1903
- Richard Emil Peschke 1904–1911
- Friedrich Hermann Richter 1912–1920
literature
- Hans Rindt: The "White Fleet" Dresden. From the history of the Upper Elbe passenger shipping. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3 (= Writings of the German Shipping Museum , Volume 12), Oceanum-Verlag, Wiefelstede 1980, ISBN 3-7979-1523-3 , 1980, pp. 69–114, especially p. 102 ( online as PDF ; 5.1 MB).
- Frank Müller, Wolfgang Quinger: With steam and paddle wheel on the Upper Elbe . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-344-00286-4 .
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1898 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1920
Web links
- Personal steamer Riesa - data sheet
- Passenger steamer Riesa - steam engine
- Passenger steamer Riesa - steam control machine
- Passenger steamer Riesa
- List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company
Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 14 ° 2 ′ 45.6 ″ E