Silvretta (ship)
_2010a.JPG) The Silvretta motorboat at the "Silvretta Beach" landing stage (2010)
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The motorboat Silvretta , a passenger ship on the Silvretta reservoir , was used on Europe's highest shipping line. The Silvretta reservoir on the Bielerhöhe belongs to Partenen , a district of the municipality of Gaschurn in the Bludenz district in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg .
Motorboat operation
The motorboat was built in 1962 by the Molenaar shipyard in Zaandam / Amsterdam on behalf of Vorarlberger Illwerke and was delivered by truck in early summer 1963. It was in 1963 Austrian flag set to the Silvretta reservoir in service and received at the Schiffstaufe the ship's name Silvretta after Silvretta , a mountain range in the central Alps of the Eastern Alps .
It replaced the Brigantia , the first motorboat on the Silvretta reservoir. The Brigantia was built in 1912 in the Friedrich Lürssen shipyard in Aumund-Vegesack near Bremen. The four-cylinder four-stroke petrol engine from Ford had an engine output of 50 hp (37 kW). The 11.10 meter long ship had a load capacity of two tons and could transport 25 people. Vorarlberger Illwerke AG was also the owner of the ship. This wooden ship made of mahogany , the forecastle of which was covered and the aft was open, sailed from 1950 to 1955 on Lake Constance and from 1956 to 1963 on the Silvretta reservoir.
Since then, the Silvretta , which looks like a Dutch canal boat, has been operating on the reservoir in the summer half-year from the end of June to the beginning of October (this was, however, depending on the weather) with a storage target of 2030 m above sea level. A. The motorboat was the only one in Europe that was used for commercial liner shipping at over 2,000 meters above sea level . Round trips and translation trips were carried out. Around 700,000 visitors have been taken by boat since 1963.
As the lake area froze over completely in the winter half of the year until the commissioning of the Obervermuntwerk II in 2019, the boat was lifted out of the reservoir at the end of the season and brought down to Schruns for repair and maintenance work . A former locomotive shed served as "winter quarters". The launching (end of June) and pulling ashore in autumn was done with the help of a slipway in the cross-launching . The boat trailer was brought from the reservoir via the Silvretta High Alpine Road into the valley and then to Schruns using a special tractor unit . At the local freight station of Montafonerbahn AG , the former reloading point of the Tschagguns – Partenen railway line, which was closed in 1961 , the Silvretta was loaded onto the Jaat 15 narrow-gauge trolley and pulled by the O&K 11950 locomotive, ex-Höhenbahn Trominier, onto the remaining tracks into the boiler house . The Vermuntbahn or the older Trominier funicular railway was never available as a means of transport for this purpose, as transport via the Silvretta High Alpine Road was easier.
In the summer half of the year, the paid regular service on the Silvretta reservoir took place as a 20-minute boat tour, with boarding at the "Silvretta Beach" pier, a jetty on the sandy beach below the "Silvrettasee" restaurant. The circuit on the Silvrettasee was about six kilometers long. It was also possible to cross over to the “ Wiesbadener Hütte ” landing stage at the other end of the reservoir. A well-paved hiking trail leads hikers around the lake in around two hours. The regular service made it possible to drive half of the route by motorboat and walk the other half. The boat tour offered the opportunity to discover the mountains of the Silvretta group with the Piz Buin ( 3312 m above sea level ), Vorarlberg's highest mountain, from a slightly different perspective.
Due to a technical defect, the Silvretta motorboat has been out of service since summer 2011 (as of August 2016). Since then, the operator has not been able to put the motorboat back into operation.
technical description
The Silvretta was a Dutch canal boat. The roof was completely glazed. The engine of the Silvretta motorboat was replaced in 1985 due to a defect. A four-stroke diesel engine was originally installed in 1962. It came from Ford under a license from the American manufacturer Hercules, had six cylinders and developed 71 kW (96 hp) at sea level and 56 kW (76 hp) at 2,000 meters. The inboard motor worked via a hydraulic reverse gear from the manufacturer Warner Gear VEGE with a speed reduction of 2: 1 on a three-bladed fixed propeller with a diameter of 600 millimeters and a pitch of 630 millimeters. The propeller came from Lips in Drunen (Netherlands). Behind the propeller was the rudder blade.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Self-presentation ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Illwerke Tourism; Retrieved December 30, 2010
- ↑ Bauwerft ( Memento of the original dated December 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on February 2, 2011
- ↑ a b Time travel 1963: Silvretta-Boot ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the ORF website , September 9, 2008; Retrieved December 30, 2010
- ^ Peter Strasser: Holiday greetings from the Montafon . Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-805-8 , p. 48.
- ^ MS Brigantia on Lake Silvretta . In: The golden book of the Alpine lakes . Verl. Bruckmann, Munich 1974.
- ↑ MB "Brigantia" . In: Arnulf Dieth (Ed.): Rot - Weiss - Rot on Lake Constance. Austrian shipping through the ages . Hecht Verlag, Hard / Austria 1995, ISBN 3-85298-013-5 , p. 193 f.
- ↑ Narrow gauge railways in Austria, Tschagguns – Partenen ; Retrieved December 30, 2010
literature
- Montafon: where Hemingway stormed the peaks . In: MERIAN Vorarlberg, vol. 60, issue 2 . Jahreszeiten Verlag , Hamburg, 1st edition January 23, 2007 ISBN 978-3-8342-0702-9
- High mountain shipping in the Montafon . In: Peter Strasser: Along the Montafonerbahn . (= Special volume 13 for the Montafon series of publications ) Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-659-7 . Pp. 121-124. ( limited preview in Google Book search)