Seaman's home
Seaman's homes usually serve as accommodation (hotel) for seafarers because they cannot currently live on board a ship or as a place to stay (club) for seafarers during their free time while the ship is in port. There are seafarers' homes in major port cities around the world . They are mainly carried by various Christian seaman's missions, but there are also seaman's homes run by non-denominational organizations.
history
As sailors often in earlier times of Logierwirten and Private Heuerbaasen were exploited and kept in debt dependence, Christian circles and socially responsible tried Reeder for help.
The first seaman's home in Germany was inaugurated on October 18, 1854 by the trading house Friedrich M. Vietor from Bremen . The house rules said: “This house is built to give the honorable class of seafarers, when they have happily returned from a difficult voyage, a pleasant and quiet refuge during their stay on land and to protect them from becoming angry carelessly wasting earned earnings. Every inmate is expected to behave soberly and decently. ”The serving of spirits was prohibited. Participation in the morning and evening prayers was voluntary. "But it is hoped that every housemate will take part, since a day started with God and decided with him cannot remain without a blessing ..." In 1889 this house in Bremen was closed because the shipping traffic shifted to Geestemünde, today's Bremerhaven . It was destroyed by bombs during World War II.
In Hamburg , the seaman's house, built from 1858, was opened in Hamburg in 1863. Located above the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken , it was opened as a seaman's home and hospital at the expense of the shipowners (the building is now partially preserved in the Hamburg Harbor Hotel ).
In 1887 Pastor Nink founded a seaman's home in Hamburg ; a small seaman's home on the Pinnasberg in a rented house.
In 1906, on April 6, the first seaman's home of the German Seamen's Mission in Hamburg was inaugurated on Wolfgangsweg, next to which the Luther Church, serving the seaman's pastor, was built as a subsidiary church of Michel . The house still stands - after being bombed out in the Second World War and reconstruction - but is now used for other purposes.
In addition to the St. Michaeliskirche, the foundation stone for the new building, for which he had made a great contribution, was laid on September 26, 1958 by then chairman Robert Miles Reincke on Krayenkamp . On September 12, 1959, Bishop Karl Witte inaugurated the new seaman's home on Krayenkamp. For around two decades, this home experienced the boom in German shipping after the Second World War. In 1970 about 44,000 seafarers were employed on German ships. The number of ships flying the German flag had peaked after the West German economic miracle . The demand for beds in the seaman's home was correspondingly high.
Seaman's homes with a hotel character were also built in other port cities.
Sailors' homes today
Today the demand for accommodation for seafarers is less strong. This is why most sailor homes now serve as clubs in which the sailors while in port hours of their ships for hours have found "change of scenery" advice and help and make calls worldwide with their family members or by e-mail to communicate.
In the port of Hamburg , for example , with short distances to the ships, there is the Duckdalben seaman's club of the German Seamen's Mission as a place to stay (without overnight accommodation) with various services, leisure options and prayer and prayer rooms for different religions. In 1977 the sailors' club "Gute Stube" was opened in Bremerhaven in Gatehouse II at the container terminal in Bremerhaven. It was the first club in Europe that was located in the immediate vicinity of the ship's berths. It was relocated under the name Seemannsclub Welcome to a new location in a new building at the Nordschleuse on the edge of the container terminal and opened there in December 2002.
In 1950, the Seemannsmission association set up a home with 70 beds on the 4th floor of the Volkshaus on the former Nordstrasse (today Hans-Böckler-Strasse) in Bremen as a replacement for the home on Korffsdeich that was destroyed in World War II . In 1955/56 a new building with 90 beds was built in the Stephaniviertel, which was reduced to 34 rooms with 43 beds and modernized by 1992. The home in the immediate vicinity of Stephanikirche and Schlachte was, as in many other seaman's homes , also open to non-seafarers. At the end of 2017 the seaman's home was shut down and sold and demolished in 2019.
Web links
- German seaman's mission - Several national and international seaman's homes under stations
- Catholic seaman's mission Stella Maris - Seemannsheim Reimarusstraße Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ IR Thun: Becoming and growing the German Protestant seaman's mission . Self-published by the Deutsche Seemannsmission, 1959, p. 13.
- ^ EW: The seaman's house in Hamburg . In: The Gazebo . Issue 19, 1863, pp. 292-295 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- ^ Richard Münchmeyer (Seemannspastor): Handbook of the German Evangelical Seemannsmission. 1912.
- ^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- ↑ Seemannsheim Bremen - A home away from home. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 15, 2011 ; Retrieved February 2, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Peter Hanuschke: Overnight stay in Germany's oldest seaman's mission . Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Bremer Seemannsheim is demolished - buten and inside. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
