Shipping company Rorschach

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The communal shipping company Rorschach (SBR) was the successor to the private motorboat company Gottlieb Füllemann in 1960. The three SBR ships have been integrated into the fleet of the Schweizerische Bodensee-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft AG (SBS AG) since 2007. They remained stationed in Rorschach , Canton St. Gallen .

prehistory

The narrow home port of the Rorschach fleet

Rorschach has been an important port city for Lake Constance shipping since the Middle Ages , especially during the heyday of the important St. Gallen monastery , which is 15 km to the southwest. The exchange of goods via the German ports of Lake Constance and with Italy as well as the early railway connection strengthened the position of the small port. Besides the Lädinen Rorschach sailors had 1864-1870 steamship Rorschach the Brothers Helfenberger here its home port . It was the renovated wreck of the Bavarian smooth decker Ludwig , which sank in 1861 after the accident with the city ​​of Zurich and was lifted in 1863. In the possession of the company Immer und Bräuing, the now unpowered freight ship sank again in a storm off Bregenz in 1870 and was broken up, which ended the short Rorschach steamship journey . Based on the year of construction in 1838, the Rorschach is the oldest Swiss Lake Constance steamship.

Motorboat company Gottlieb Füllemann (1906 to 1959)

Gottlieb Füllemann Sr. (1872–1956) ran a boat building company in Rorschach, which in 1903 built the Rorschach on behalf of a customer , one of the first passenger motor boats (20 people) on Lake Constance . In 1904 he took over a boat rental and in 1905 bought back the Rorschach , with which he opened a motorboat business in 1906. With the second boat, the 30-person self-made Luna , he made trips to Horn TG , Arbon and Altenrhein from 1907 and from there up the old course of the Rhine to Rheineck . There is 400 m above sea level. M. the highest landing point for ships on the Rhine . In 1916 he built the city ​​of St. Gallen with his son . With the conversion of the beach fairy bought in 1920 , the first series ended with four boats for around 30 passengers each. In 1930 the big Rheinlust (I) followed, a shipyard building for 160 to 180 people and the flagship of the successful family business. The Second World War also brought significant restrictions to neutral Switzerland : The city ​​of St. Gallen and even Rheinlust (I) had to be sold.

In 1948 Gottlieb Füllemann jun. Took over. his father's business with the motor boats Luna and Strandfee . Two similar-looking boats for 60 people each soon followed: the wreck of the Silberhecht , built in 1910, was built in 1950 by the Bodan shipyard at Rheinlust (II), and the tern was acquired in 1952 in East Friesland . In 1959, Füllemann turned around and offered the small traditional company for sale.

Shipping company Rorschach (SBR, 1960 to 2006)

Rhyspitz
Rhynegg
Old Rhy

In order to maintain the popular shipping connection, the communities of Rorschach (56.8%), Rheineck (28.4%) and Thal (14.8%) founded the "Motorbootbetrieb Rorschach-Rheineck", which in 1960 founded the Füllemann boat company with the two motorboats Rheinlust (II) and Seeschwalbe took over. In 1973 the company was renamed “Städtischer Motorboot- und Schifffahrtsbetrieb” and in 1978 it was renamed “Schifffahrtsbetrieb Rorschach” (SBR). High repair costs and the foreseeable retirement led to the renewal of the SBR fleet. In 1970 the Rhyspitz was built for 150 passengers at the Bodan shipyard, as was the SBR flagship Rhynegg in 1977 for 300 people. It replaced the tern ; Rheinlust (II) was retired in 1980. The smallest (60 people) and still the youngest ship, the Alte Rhy, was built at the Lux shipyard in 1983 . The higher capacity led to increasing numbers of passengers, which, however, depend very much on the weather and water level of the Old Rhine. In 2004, the SBR joined the United Shipping Companies for Lake Constance and Rhine (VSU) as the fifth shipping company .

SBR in the Swiss Lake Constance Shipping Company (SBS)

In the long term, the annual deficits exceeded the capacity of the three supporting municipalities of the SBR. In 2007 they therefore agreed with SBS-AG to bring their three smaller ships into the SBS fleet with four larger passenger ships, home port Romanshorn . Since the lines and ships complement each other well, both anticipate positive synergy effects. The SBR was in this merger on the SBS, received but remained the home port of Rorschach, the port facilities and the staff as well as the participation of the three communities through a stake of one third of the share capital of SBS AG. The former SBR fleet initially operated under the name "SBS-Schifffahrt AG - Rorschach". The separate membership of the SBR in the VSU has expired again. Since the Rhyspitz was used in cross-traffic between Lake Constance ( Altnau - Immenstaad - Hagnau ) in 2011 , its home port has been Romanshorn.

SBR fleet 2006/2007

Rhyspitz Rhynegg Old Rhy
Shipyard Bodan shipyard Bodan shipyard Lux shipyard
Commissioning 1970 1977 1983
Length overall 28.60 m 31.15 m 22.00 m
Width o.a. 5.20 m 7.00 m 4.60 m
Displacement 45 t 107 t 32 t
power 2 × 224 hp 2 × 245 hp 245 hp
propeller 2 screws 2 Schottel rudder propellers 1 Schottel rudder propeller
Passengers 150 300 60
comment Reconstruction in 1991 Renovation in 2004 Rebuild in 2003

Source: VSU media conference / press kit 2007, p. 27

Sun queen in Rorschach

The Sun Queen , the "event ship" with the unconventional design , had her home port until September 2009 in Rorschach after it was put into service in September 2008. The owner of the Sun Queen , Walter Klaus GmbH & Co KG, has a 40% stake in SBS AG and thus also in the former SBR fleet. The ship has a berth in Rorschach, the dolphins of which have been specially reinforced for the 1000-tonne crane.

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literature

  • Dampferzeitung 5/1990: Considerable small business on a large lake: Schiffsbetrieb Rorschach , Luzern 1990. (Basis of the article, unless otherwise noted)

Individual references and footnotes

  1. ↑ The names are the local names for Rheineck, the Old Rhine and its confluence with Lake Constance
  2. ↑ In 2007, SBS AG took over the ship operation with real estate from the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) .
  3. ↑ The current fleet of SBS