Clausen shipyard

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The Clausen shipyard was a shipyard in Oberwinter that specialized primarily in ferries.

history

The Clausen shipyard was located at the port of Oberwinter. Wooden boats were once built there; from 1912, however, Clausen specialized in the construction of iron ships.

In the 1930s the site of the shipyard was threatened by plans for a new road layout. The Hindenburgufer, later called Oberwinterer Rheinallee, was closed to all traffic at the end of 1935, so that construction work on the new street could begin in early 1936. However, the workshop of the Clausen shipyard was located at the intersection of two construction phases. It had to be moved towards the Rhine. However, the mayor of Hüllen wrote to the owner of the site, the Rheinstrombauverwaltung Koblenz , in order to have the hall not rebuilt, which in his opinion spoiled the view from the new Rhine facilities and had a negative effect on the suitability of the place for tourism would affect. However, Hüllen was unable to prevail. The hall was rebuilt next to the street.

During the Second World War , the shipyard was largely destroyed; Reconstruction began in 1946. One focus in the post-war period was the construction of high-speed car ferries. In the post-war period, the designer Ferdinand Clausen designed car ferries that were as light as possible and weighed around 80 tons and were easy to maneuver.

Clausen ferries were used in Speyer , on the routes Bingen - Rüdesheim , Bad Honnef - Rolandseck and Bad Godesberg - Niederdollendorf . In addition to ferries, Clausen also built passenger ships.

In 1990 Maritim-Service Groten rented the former shipyard and renovated it. It was based on the site from 1991 until it moved to the site of the former Oberwinter GmbH shipyard in 2002.

Ships (incomplete list)

Konrad Adenauer
  • Aegir (1950)
  • Möhne (1950)
  • Carpe Diem (1953)
  • Mülheim (1954)
  • Oberhausen (1954)
  • Friedrich Freye (1955)
  • Ochten-Druten (1955, No. 147)
  • Peter Pan (1956)
  • Bleckeder Lion (1957)
  • Rhine ferry Altrip (1958)
  • Orsoy (1958)
  • Mondorf II (1958)
  • Dedesdorf (1959, No. 157)
  • Muelheim ad Ruhr (1960)
  • Koenigswinter III (1960)
  • Rumpenheim (1961, No. 170)
  • Prototype of a pioneer ferry (1961)
  • Fritz Middelanis (1962)
  • Pfalzgrafenstein (1966, No. 206)
  • Rhinowe (1967, no.207 )
  • Konrad Adenauer (1967)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Bernd Blumenthal, "The current street is impassable for pedestrians". The history of the construction of the overwintering bypass road (B9) in the 1930s (1991)
  2. a b Hermann Comes, Schiffsbau im Kreis Ahrweiler (1955) ( Memento from July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: "Ferry ships are stepchildren: Nobody really loves them" , in: Godesberger Anzeiger 1987 ) (PDF; 2.0 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / rheinnixe.com
  4. Maritime Service Groten
  5. Data on the Aegir ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. Data on the Möhne
  7. Data on the Carpe Diem ( Memento from February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Report on the Mülheim
  9. ^ History of Oberhausen
  10. Data on Friedrich Freye
  11. Data on the Ochten-Druten
  12. Peter Pan
  13. Bleckeder Löwe ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. History of the ferries in Altrip (PDF; 535 kB)
  15. Orsoy or Rheinfels ?
  16. Mondorf II
  17. Data on Dedesdorf
  18. Data on Mülheim ad Ruhr
  19. Königswinter III ( Memento from July 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  20. Data on Rumpenheim ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  21. Pioneer Ferry
  22. History of the Fritz Middelanis (PDF; 60 kB)
  23. Data on the Pfalzgrafenstein
  24. According to this source , the ship was originally called Sirtaki
  25. Data on the Rinowe