Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG Mannheim
The shipbuilding and mechanical engineering AG Mannheim was a German inland shipyard , based in Mannheim . The company was located in the Jungbusch district of Mannheim at the confluence of the connecting canal with the Neckar .
history
The company was founded in 1889 through the merger of the Mainz boiler manufacturer "Gebrüder Schulz" with the Mannheim shipyard "Bernhard Fischer". After it was founded, the shipbuilding company made a name for itself primarily through the construction of special ships, i.e. single ships with special tasks. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, floating dredgers , elevators , tankers and tugs were part of the shipyard's program. When the company suffered from a lack of orders after the First World War , the shipbuilding business was taken over by the Mannheim shipping company "Fendel" in 1922 . In the following years the company was also active in the construction of inland cargo ships. In 1939 the "Anderssen" shipyard in Neckarsulm was taken over and integrated as a subsidiary operation.
The order from the Kriegsmarine to build a series of four water tankers during the Second World War was unusual for an inland shipyard . The second ship of the series was the Aegir , completed in 1942 , which still exists today (2014) and is used by the University of Istanbul as a research ship under the name MTA Sismik 1 . The fourth ship could no longer be delivered to the Navy in 1944 due to the war situation and was used as a fishing protection boat Meerkatze after the war .
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The premises were significantly destroyed by the air raids in World War II. After the reconstruction, in the 1950s the company manufactured in addition to inland motor ships numerous landing craft for the US and French armed forces and the German armed forces , which were given the type designations "Mannheim 51", "Mannheim 53" and "Mannheim 59" . During this time, the company proudly described itself in its advertising as the largest inland shipyard in Germany . The high point in the company's shipbuilding history was the construction of the Schwabenland passenger ship in 1959 and 1960, which was one of the first cabin ships on the Rhine .
On January 1, 1962, the shipyard was sold to Halbergerhütte in Saarland . The new owner gave up the construction of inland waterways and switched operations to the construction of heat exchangers . Closing down around 1978, the entire company premises were demolished in the 1980s. Today, the Mannheim Pop Academy is located on the former shipyard site .
Ships preserved in museums
- Bucket chain excavator (built in 1900), Winterthur Steam Center, in Winterthur (Switzerland)
- Glarus , ex Gebr. Page IX (built in 1907/98), tractor, Technik Museum Speyer
- Saatsee , ex Simson (built in 1919/20), floating crane, Museum of Labor in Hamburg
- Fendel 147 (year of construction 1922), crane ship, Duisburg
The predecessor shipyard “Gebrüder Schulz” in Mainz manufactured the Minden bucket chain excavator in 1882 , which is now in the Museum of German Inland Shipping in Duisburg.
literature
- Sebastian Parzer: The shipbuilding and mechanical engineering AG Mannheim . In: Badische Heimat 1/2009, pp. 179–185.
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 47 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 25.9 ″ E
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Steam Center Winterthur ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
