Schwalbe II (ship)
The motor ship Schwalbe II
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The passenger ship Schwalbe II is a day trip ship on the Ruhr and on the Witten part of the Kemnader See with its home port in Witten . The ship is operated by the Witten municipal utility . It has 125 seats on two decks.
program
It runs three to four times a day in regular service between the stations of the Kemnade leisure center on Kemnader See, the Lakebrücke in Herbede , Herbeder Schleuse , the Hardenstein castle ruins , the Nachtigall colliery and the Uferstraße mooring in Bommern . A round trip takes about two hours and includes two locks. It is possible to have weddings carried out on the ship by the Witten registry office. The ship is barrier-free in the lower deck.
history
The Schwalbe II was built at the Lux shipyard in Niederkassel as hull number 104. It was launched on June 6, 1987. It replaced its predecessor Schwalbe , built in 1923, on Lake Kemnader . In the winter of 1998/99 it was completely overhauled in the Neue Ruhrorter shipyard and lengthened by 3.30 m.
Predecessor ship
Passenger shipping in Witten began in 1967 with the Schwalbe passenger ship built in Königswinter in 1923 . In 1977 Stadtwerke Witten took over the ship from the then owner Paul Schultz. The old ship then stood in a children's playground on Lake Kemnader for a few years before it had to be scrapped due to rust. The bow and propeller are preserved and integrated into a wall in Heven .
literature
- Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships . Illustrated register of ships. Uwe Welz publishing house, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3 .
Web links
- Description from Stadtwerke Witten
- Accessibility
- Ruhr Guide ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swallow II . Archived from the original on January 13, 2014 ; accessed on January 13, 2014 .
- ↑ MS Schwalbe II. In: medienwerkstatt-online.de. Medienwerkstatt Mühlacker Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, archived from the original on February 17, 2014 ; accessed on February 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b "Clear ship". Interview with Schwalbe captain Helge Spartz . In: StadtMagazin Witten . No. 108 , 2017, p. 64 ( online [accessed March 29, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Experience the Ruhr on board the MS Schwalbe II. Stadtwerke Witten , accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ With the Ruhr ship Schwalbe - sail into the port of marriage! City of Witten, accessed March 30, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 19.2 ″ N , 7 ° 18 ′ 0.3 ″ E