Shipyard Christof Ruthof

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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '19.2 "  N , 8 ° 16' 4.8"  O The Christof Ruthof, Shipyard and Maschinenfabrik , was to 1975, a German company with offices in Mainz-Kastel and Regensburg .

history

The soul judge "Senator" was launched, Ruthof shipyard in Mainz-Kastel, 1902

The company was founded in Kastel in 1871 by master wooden shipbuilder Christof Ruthof. Ruthof initially made ships from wood, and from 1884 also from steel . The first steel ship was the Ponte Loreley II for the ferry connection between Sankt Goar and Sankt Goarshausen .

In 1878 the shipyard moved into new premises opposite the Petersaue , which over the years was equipped with three transverse hangars and a longitudinal slipway .

In 1892 a shipyard was founded in Regensburg for Serbian orders, which was relocated to the lower Danube area in 1894. In 1910 a second shipyard was founded in Regensburg on the south quay of the new petroleum port in the east of the city. To distinguish the shipyard in Mainz-Kastel was given the name "Rhein-Werft", the shipyards in Regensburg were called "Danube shipyards" (shipyard II in the Petroleumhafen, shipyard III on the Donaulände). When it was founded in 1913, the shipping company Bayerischer Lloyd commissioned two tankers from the Ruthof shipyard in Regensburg, MS König Ludwig III and MS M II Bayreuth . These were the first motorized tankers in inland navigation in Europe, and they were among the first diesel-powered motor ships. Each of the tankers was equipped with two 320 hp diesel engines and had a capacity of 628 tons of crude oil.

In 1920, after the death of the founder Christof Ruthof, the company was converted into a family-owned limited partnership , which his son Josef Ruthof managed as a personally liable partner. The company now employed around 800 people at its locations in Mainz-Kastel and Regensburg and had delivered more than 600 ships. In 1929 the steamer Mainz was built under construction number 1000 .

The export of the shipyards and the machine factory took up an important part of the company. In the years 1930 to 1937 several large orders were made from Romania, for which the Reich Ministry of Finance granted export credits of 5 million Reichsmarks per individual application.

During the Second World War , forced laborers from the Western European occupation areas, so-called "Western workers", were used in the company . In a list for the Mainz district in April 1943, the German Labor Front listed two Dutchmen , one Flemish and 29 French who were assigned to the Ruthof shipyard.

After the death of Josef Ruthof in 1947, the legal form was converted into a GmbH. Adolf H. Hummel, Johann H. Koenigsfeld and Fritz Gehm were appointed managing directors. The shipyard in Mainz-Kastel took off after the reconstruction of the facilities destroyed in the war. In 1953 the steamer Goethe of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer Rheindampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft (KD) could be modernized again, in time for the 100th anniversary of the shipping company. In the years that followed, the first cabin ships were built for KD under the direction of Hummel. Exports were also resumed, for example with the construction of two push boats and several freight ships for Myanmar (Burma), ferries and speedboats for Ghana and two Nile cruise ships for Egypt . The push boat trip on the Rhine was crucial steps in through the first purpose built American-style craft assembly . This was built for a German-Dutch consortium under the leadership of the Raab Karcher shipping company and consisted of the water buffalo push boat, hull number 1415 and four barges with a load capacity of 1300 t each.

The Christof Ruthof company was affected by the general decline in the shipbuilding industry in the Federal Republic of Germany and had to cease operations in 1975. The former shipyard in Mainz-Kastel was used for residential construction, the street name "An der Helling" reminds us of the former economic importance.

Known ships

Side wheel tractor Ruthof / Érsekcsanád on the Regensburg Donaulände, built in 1923 (construction no. 741)
Freight motor ship Lesath , ENI 04027240, built in 1916 as barge Rhenania 26 (building no. 582), motorized in 1960, extended in 1972

The known or still active ships that were built by the shipyard Christof Ruthof include (arrangement according to year of construction):

  • Paddle wheel ship Goethe , sunk in 1945 by a bomb, lifted again in 1949 and repaired and converted by the Ruthof shipyard in 1951/1952, converted to diesel propulsion in 2008–2009 and flagged out to Malta
  • Paddle steamer Ruthof , built 1922, Regensburg, today a museum ship, ibid.
  • City of Überlingen , built in 1928
  • Mainz (Bj. 1929, formerly 1981), is moored as a museum ship DS Mannheim in Mannheim (side paddle steamer)
  • City of Bingen , 1933. Passenger ferry, used on the Rüdesheim am Rhein - Bingen am Rhein ferry route
  • City of Cologne ex Hanseatic City of Cologne , ship built for the city of Cologne in 1938.The ship has been a listed building since 2018. It is z. Currently restored.
  • Tour ship Mainz ex Hungaria , (former Hungarian state yacht), built in 1943
  • Arthur Kaspar tugboat , built in 1955. Acquired in 2005 by the Viennese Association of Friends of Historic Ships and has since been preserved and maintained by the association in its original condition.
  • Passenger ship Kelheim , built 1958, active as Bodman on Lake Constance from 1979 , MS Raiffeisen since 2013
  • River cruise ship Europa , built in 1960, first ship of its kind on the Rhine
  • River cruise ship France , built in 1966, Statendam since 2002
  • Passenger ship Wappen von Köln ex Rhein , built in 1967
  • River cruise ship Britannia , built in 1969
  • River cruise ship Alemannia ex Germany , built in 1971

literature

  • Armin A. Hummel: The Ruthof shipyard in Mainz-Kastel and Regensburg, 1871–1975 , Edition Winterwork Borsdorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-96014-456-4 , (contains the complete list of all new buildings)

Web links

Commons : Schiffswerft Christof Ruthof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hammerl: Ferry St. Goar - St. Goarshausen
  2. ^ Rainer Ehm: On the water and in the air . In: Kunst und Gewerbeverein Regensburg eV (ed.): It is a pleasure to live! The 20s in Regensburg . Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag = Regensburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937527-23-9 , pp. 62-64 .
  3. ↑ Petroleum Tanker Shipping on German Inland Waterways, 1887–1994 (English, PDF; 464 kB)
  4. ↑ Armin A. Hummel: History of the Ruthof shipyard in Mainz, Kastel and Regensburg, 1871–1975 .
  5. ↑ List of companies export credits  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Reich Ministry of Finance@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesarchiv.de  
  6. ↑ Hedwig Brüchert: Forced Labor 1939–1945
  7. ↑ Hessian Economy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 23@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ihk-wiesbaden.de  
  8. ↑ Heinz Harder: Expreßdampfer "Goethe" in ship and harbor , Hamburg, July 1953
  9. ^ Museum ship DS Mannheim in the Rhein-Neckar-Wiki
  10. ↑ Dipl.-Ing. Adolf Hummel, Wiesbaden: "Motorschiff Hansestadt Köln" in shipbuilding, shipping and port construction , Berlin, 40th year, issue 8.
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  12. ↑ Ship details on bodenseeschifffahrt.de