Royal Louise (ship)
 The replica of the Royal Louise 2019 at the historic berth at the Seglerhaus am Wannsee Association (VSaW)
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The Royal Louise is a square sailer that has been back on the Havel since 1999 as a true-to-original replica . Its predecessor, the true-to-scale model frigate created in 1831, was a gift from the British King to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. , which had been transferred from the shipyard in London to Pfaueninsel in 1832 . For this first Royal Louise , which was destroyed after 1945, a replica was made in 1999 at the Berlin yacht shipyard .
history
The background was the celebrations in London for the joint victory of the rulers of Great Britain, Prussia, Russia and Austria over Napoleon Bonaparte , which had included a large naval parade in 1814. On this occasion, the rulers gave each other generous gifts, with the British King George III. gave the Prussian king a sailing boat 10 meters long with three masts for trips on the Havel lakes.
When this boat was in bad condition around 1830, Georg's son and successor William IV renewed the gift in 1832 with a more representative ship. It was a replica of the three-masted frigate Thetis, laid down on the keel of the Royal Dockyard in 1831 and scaled down to 1: 3 . When it was baptized, it was named Royal Louise after Friedrich Wilhelm's wife, Queen Luise, who died in 1810 .
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Then the 38-meter lightning tractor with 2 × 50 hp transported the Royal Louise from London to Hamburg . Because of its draft, it had to be loaded onto a cradle there, which a tug from the Seehandlungs-Societät brought via the Elbe and Havel to the Wannsee near Berlin, whereby the masts could remain standing as all bridges had mast flaps . On June 22nd, 1832 Lord Adolphus FitzClarence , William's son, handed over the Royal Louise to Friedrich Wilhelm on the Wannsee . A wooden frigate shed on Pfaueninsel was the station of the royal yacht, which sailed on the Havel and Jungfernsee from 1832 to 1914. The shed was designed by a member of the palace construction commission, the architect Albert Dietrich Schadow .
1841 new berth at the Kongsnæs sailor station
Since the use of the previous berth was very complex, you first had to cross over from the mainland to the Pfaueninsel, the Royal Louise was given a new home port for the summer months at the sailor station on Potsdam's Jungfernsee in 1841 . The original pioneer station was occupied by seven pioneers who were assigned to the operation and maintenance of the Royal Louise . The pioneer station then served as a cadet institute. The occupation with sailors was provided by the Prussian Navy in Kiel from 1850 . So the name changed over time from the pioneer station to the sailor station. They also used smaller boats as berths.
In 1891, Kaiser Wilhelm II had several new buildings built in the Norwegian wooden style on the site of the sailor station, which is why it was given the name "Kongsnæs" (Norwegian: the king's headland). Today it is called "Imperial Sailor Station Kongsnæs Potsdam". The model frigate, which was mainly used by the royal family, was temporarily used as a display object for cadets from the naval school. During a major repair in 1902, the copper plating was removed and the rigging changed.
The Royal Louise served as a yacht for Crown Princess Cecilie until 1914 . The Royal Louise spent the following World War I on Pfaueninsel in the frigate shed and in 1918 went to the Kluge shipyard on the Sacrower See.
1921 Handover of the Royal Louise to the Seglerhaus am Wannsee Association and to the fishing industry in Sacrow
After the November Revolution of 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II had to leave Germany and abdicate. In the Weimar Republic in 1926 when the royal family's possessions were divided, the Royal Louise remained the property of the Hohenzollern family. As early as January 23, 1921, Wilhelm II had given it to the Seglerhaus am Wannsee association for use by the youth department. The replica later found its mooring there. In 1924 a fire largely destroyed the running rigging, masts and spars of the Royal Louise , whereupon the association handed it over to the State School for Fisheries Sacrow as the Hulk in 1926 .
1935 memorial for the German Navy
In 1932, the Naval Station Baltic took over the Imperial Navy , the Royal Louise , she led after Kiel and restored it to them ashore on the hill at Flanders Square in 1935 Kiel-Wik set up. The British occupation forces saw the Royal Luise as a monument to Prussian militarism and in 1945 ordered its destruction. The ship, on which five kings had sailed at a young age, found its end in the post-war period as firewood for the population. The figurehead and salute guns are still there in Berlin.
Faithful reconstruction of the Royal Louise at the Berlin yacht yard
The replica is a historically rigged three-master with square sails on all masts, a faithful reconstruction of the British miniature frigate from 1832. The new building "Royal Louise" was built from 1996 to 1998 under the supervision of the consulting and project management company for regional economic development mbH at the Yachtwerft Berlin GmbH in Berlin-Köpenick as part of a job creation measure, financed by the employment office , the Berlin Senate and the Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks .
View from aft
Transom with painted windows
running rigging
From 1999 onwards, a private carrier operated the ship, which went bankrupt in 2001. After that, it was on the Dahme in Köpenick for three years , until the newly founded association "Royal Louise Yacht and Shipping Association eV" took over in the summer of 2004. now with around 130 members The Royal Louise has since become a landmark of the Berlin lakes and a popular photo opportunity at cultural events.
Salon, view from the companionway
Bust of Queen Luise
Salon, view of the companionway
The berth is again at the Seglerhaus am Wannsee Association (VSaW) in Berlin and she sails on the Havel lakes as before. The newly founded association successfully operates it as a landmark of the historic lake, palace and park landscape in Berlin and Potsdam . Trips are organized for club members and guests, and classic sailing regattas and cultural events are accompanied and supported. In 2008, Captain Lothar Voß was able to take over a replica of a bust of the namesake Queen Luise, created by Johann Gottfried Schadow , which found its place in the salon of the Royal Louise .
Royal Louise in the frigate shed
Frigate Shed Peacock Island
Royal Louise in the frigate shed
The wooden frigate shed on the Pfaueninsel with the remarkable plank truss construction of the roof is once again used for its actual purpose as winter storage for the Royal Louise . To do this, the three-part masts have to be rigged and put down. However, depending on the planned winter work, the lower part of the masts can remain standing, so that the sailor fits in the height of the now renovated frigate shed.
literature
- Michael Stoffregen-Büller: On blue Havel floods, ROYAL LOUISE - the frigate of the Prussian kings and the imperial sailor station in Potsdam
Web links
- Royal Louise Yacht- und Schifffahrtsverein zu Potsdam eV , accessed on September 24, 2019
- Royal Louise, Jobs for the Unemployed , accessed September 24, 2019
- Queen Luise of Prussia, replica of a bust created by JF Schadow. , accessed on September 24, 2019
Footnotes
- ↑ [1] , history accessed on September 25, 2019
- ↑ a b c d Erich Gröner: Erich Gröner: The German Warships 1815-1945, Volume 6 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1989, p. 284 .
- ↑ [2] , replica, images and data accessed on September 24, 2019
- ↑ [3] A private carrier operated the ship from 1999 to 2001, accessed on September 24, 2019
- ↑ [4] , Excursions with the Royal Louise, accessed on September 24, 2019
- ↑ [5] , usage concept for the frigate "Royal Louise", accessed on September 24, 2019
- ^ "Royal Luise" took wife on board . Potsdam Latest News April 28, 2008, accessed September 26, 2019
- ↑ [6] , October 4, 2013; The LOUISE is back in winter quarters; accessed on October 10, 2019
- ↑ [7] , photo of the Royal Louise with the lower part of the masts in the frigate shed; accessed on October 10, 2019