State shipyard Rendsburg-Saatsee

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The State Shipyard Rendsburg-Saatsee operates today as Bauhof Rendsburg, repairs and looks after ships and technical systems of the Kiel Canal as a repair yard .

Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Saatseewerft water tower

1895 Imperial Mechanical Engineering Inspection

The predecessor of the State Shipyard Rendsburg-Saatsee was the Kaiserliche Maschinenbau Inspection, founded in 1895 for the maintenance of vehicles of the North Sea Canal Administration. Naval inspections and inspections in the German Imperial Navy were military command authorities. Technical inspections were also added later. In this case for the maintenance and repair of work vehicles and ferries of the canal.

Former State Shipyard Rendsburg-Saatsee: Historic steam hammer in the machine shop (Building VIII)

1912 Saatsee Waterways Machine Office

In 1912 the company was expanded and renamed the Saatsee Waterways Machine Office. After the First World War, from 1936 onwards, in addition to maintenance and repair orders, new ships and boats were built. It started with two dredging barges that were needed to maintain the canal.

1949 State shipyard Rendsburg-Saatsee

In 1949 the shipyard was separated and renamed the State Shipyard Rendsburg-Saatsee. More sophisticated ships were built from 1950, and as early as 1950, two chain ferries were built for the canal, other new buildings were stone excavators, collapsible barges, barges, a diving ship and canal ferries again and again.

Active ferry Fischerhütte with the ferry memorial of the chain ferry built in 1950 in the state shipyard Rendsburg-Saatsee, which was put ashore in 1990

The shipyard is now part of the Rendsburg building yard, an organizational unit and branch of the Kiel-Holtenau Waterways and Shipping Authority (WSA Kiel-Holtenau). The (WSA Kiel-Holtenau) is one of 39 waterways and shipping offices in Germany and belongs to the service area of ​​the General Directorate for Waterways and Shipping . The Rendsburg building yard looks after the state shipyard Rendsburg-Saatsee watercraft and technical systems of the canal and in particular takes care of maintenance and repair work on ships, systems and navigation marks of the waterways and shipping authority Kiel-Holtenau. This also includes the maintenance of the NOK ferry terminal as well as the repair and maintenance of the systems in the Rendsburg road and pedestrian tunnel. In addition, the building yard is responsible for the maintenance work on the fourteen canal ferries and the transporter ferry in Rendsburg and is organized in the following 7 departments:

Rendsburg, Rendsburg high bridge with transporter ferry
  • mechanical engineering
  • Shipbuilding / steel construction
  • Electrical engineering
  • Wood workshop
  • magazine
  • Scheduled maintenance work
  • Diving work

Around 65 employees work for these tasks in the workshops, the shipbuilding hall and in the port with slipway . The machine shop (building VIII) with the historic steam hammer and the water tower of the Saatseewerft are entered in the list of cultural monuments in Rendsburg. In addition, almost 30 trainees are employed in our own training workshop and in the other workshops.

Web links

Commons : Staatswerft Rendsburg-Saatsee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The chain ferry - a museum piece http://www.nok-route.de/fileadmin/download_nok_route/nok-erlebnis/t6.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.dithmarschen-wiki.de/Datei:1965.01.23-100t-F%C3%A4hren.jpg
  3. ↑ http://www.kanaltunnel-rd.de/grundinstandsetzung/gruende/

Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '53.9 "  N , 9 ° 41' 44.2"  E