Shipyard harmony
| Shipyard "Harmonie" | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| Seat | Leer (East Frisia) |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
The shipyard "Harmonie" was a shipbuilding company in Leer (East Friesland) . The focus of the operation was on the new construction and maintenance, especially of regional sailing vessels . The shipyard had shipbuilding and repair halls as well as several slipways . Today the city library is housed on the former shipyard site.
history
The area of the later shipyard at "Coldewey" (today Wilhelminengang) was first built in 1760 by the Oud-Flamingen . The company was first mentioned as the shipyard "Harmonie" in 1781 in a royal letter of permission for the Mennonites Willem Vissering, Willem Wilmsen and Consorten. The company, described in the fire register in 1793 as Schifsbauereÿ Compagnie Hauß , was dedicated to repairing ships and building wooden ships. From 1815 to 1826, Willem Vissering and Eilhard Vissering & Consorten are listed in the fire register as the owners of the approximately 1500 m² property with a house with a cabin for ship carpentry, from 1827 to 1831 in the city archive only Eÿlard Vissering & Consorten. From 1830 Willem Vissering, Eilhard Vissering & Consorten and Claas Rahusen & Consorten can be found in the fire register, from 1841 to 1863 only Claas Rahusen & Consorten then. Claas Rahusen & Consorten and the master shipbuilder Bernhard Diedrich Middendorf are registered from 1863 to 1872. After several of the shareholders of the predecessor company died in 1870, Middendorf acquired the shipyard and continued to run it successfully over the coming decades. Middendorf taught his son Friedrich Ludwig Middendorf the shipbuilding trade. In 1889 Middendorf stopped building wooden ships, which led to a temporary interruption in shipbuilding in Leer. In 1893 Middendorf offered the shipyard for sale for health reasons and finally died in 1894. Nevertheless, Middendorf remained in the files as the sole owner until 1896, after which Bernhard Diedrich Middendorf and the trading house Tjarks & Lühring are listed together. Tjarks & Lühring took over the property in 1895, had the shipyard buildings demolished and then a new, large warehouse was built. Tjarks & Lühring operated a colonial goods wholesale business for the next few decades. A boat shed was added in 1905, a loading bridge in 1908 and a roasting facility in 1916, and additional garages were built on the site in 1938. After a company change in 1953, a swimming pool was initially operated in 1970, until the city library was housed in the warehouse in 1978. Since 1979 the building has been called Hermann-Tempel-Haus after the murdered Reichstag member and since 1991 the event center Kulturspeicher has been located in the adjacent building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The history of Wilhelminengang 2-4 (PDF) , accessed on November 27, 2019.
- ↑ a b Historical maps and information at HISGIS
- ↑ Ernst Müller: The Waterborgs 1731-2006: their ships, their pattern books , De Utrooper, 2006, p. 49.
- ↑ Paul Weßels: Leer, Stadt und Landkreis , at Ostfriesische Landschaft (PDF)