Stack mastery
The Stackmeisterei is an organization of a shipping authority on the Elbe, whose main task is to ensure and further develop the function of the river as a traffic route. The first stack maintenance shop was set up in 1847 at the Bunthauserspitze . Stack maintenance shops known today are the stack maintenance shop Finkenwerder, the stack maintenance shop Neuwerk and the stack maintenance shop Cuxhaven. The river engineering specialists employed there call themselves stack workers. Where the road maintenance department has a building yard, this is the barrel yard at the stack maintenance department.
The term stack comes from the Low German (from stuck ) and means to peace or to fence, because in the past the bank reinforcement was marked out with wood, stones, willow and the like. Today, the tasks of a stack maintenance shop also include setting and maintaining shipping signs, for example.
Port of Hamburg
As a rule, the tasks of securing and maintaining the bank reinforcement, the foreland and the shipping signs in the Port of Hamburg are now outsourced to hydraulic engineering companies. The stack workers employed there are used as qualified hydraulic engineering workers almost exclusively to repair damage.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stackmeisterei ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. on the side of the Hamburg Port Authority . Retrieved March 9, 2016.
- ^ Low German dictionary . Accessed March 7, 2016
- ↑ Making work healthier: Health promotion in the work area of the stack workers - results of a pilot project by Strom- und Hafenbau / Landesunfallkasse Hamburg (2001 edition)
