Schnigge
With Schnigge ( Snigge , Snekja , Snekka ) or Schnicke an open, shallow-draft and is usually faster sailing ship type designated who, since the Iron Age developed in Northern Europe.
history
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In the Viking Age, the Schnigge was a fast, single-masted sailing ship with a shallow draft of around 30 meters in length, which could also be rowed with around 40 oars . A crew of up to 90 men was on board. The Schnigge was one of the longships ; a roadworthy reconstruction of this type exists in Poland.
In the time of the Hanseatic League , the Schnigge was used as a small, fast war and dispatch ship. It found distribution in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, Poland and Germany. One of the most famous historical Schniggen is the Hamburger Bunte Kuh on which Simon von Utrecht 1400–1401 set the vitality brothers Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels ,
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Schnigge was used to designate regionally different one- or one-and-a-half-masted ship types in Germany, including the Kuff , an East Frisian coastal sailor, and the Eiderschnigge . They were shallow boats with shallow drafts and leeboards that were used as cargo transporters or fishing boats. In front of the fixed mast they led up to three headsails , the mainsail was gaff rigged .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dudszus, A. (1990): Keywords Eiderschnigge , p. 95 and Schnigge , p. 227
literature
- Dudszus, Alfred: The great book of ship types, Vol. 1: Ships, boats, rafts under oars and sails. Berlin: Transpress, licensed edition Stuttgart: Pietsch, 1990, ISBN 3-613-50058-2
- Maik-Jens Springmann: The illustration of a Schnigge from 1335 from a Wismar account book: Concept, design and use. Part 1: Analogies and etymological references , in: Wismarer Contributions, Heft 24, 2018, pp. 20–31.
- Maik-Jens Springmann: The illustration of a Schnigge from 1335 from a Wismar account book: Concept, design and use. Part 2: Manning, construction details & topographical references, in: Wismarer Contributions, Heft 25, 2019, pp. 152–171.
