Traunsee shipping
The Traunsee shipping looks back on a long history: In 1839 the first shipping line was set up on the Traunsee ; The 175th anniversary was celebrated in 2014. Today's shipping is operated by two separate companies, Eder and Loidl.
history
Andrews and Ruston
John Andrews, one of the founders of the Danube Steamship Company , left this company in 1836 after a falling out. With his master shipbuilder Joseph John Ruston , he traveled to the Salzkammergut and acquired the concession to provide the steam navigation on five of the local lakes. For this purpose, Ruston constructed the first steamer that should operate on the Traunsee, the Sophie . This wooden ship was put into service in 1839. It operated between Gmunden and Ebensee . After Andrews' death in 1847, Ruston married his widow, and in 1848 he built a new wooden hull, as the first Sophie was already damaged. The second ship for the Traunsee was also named Sophie . The drive from Boulton & Watt from the first Sophie was still used in this ship.
Together with his brother John Joseph Ruston he set up a shipyard in Klosterneuburg in 1854 , which was later moved to Floridsdorf . The construction of the first steel steamer for the Traunsee began in this shipyard. The Elisabeth was finally assembled in Gmunden and was in service from 1858. Both Sophie II and Elisabeth initially remained in the possession of John Andrews' heirs. It was not until 1862 that Ruston was able to buy it from the Traunsee Steam Shipping Company. The construction of the third steamer, named Sophie, began again in Floridsdorf and was completed in Gmunden. The Sophie III was a paddle steamer in which the drive from the first Sophie was again used. 350 passengers could be transported with this third ship of the same name, which was rebuilt in 1901. Gisela followed in 1872 .
In 1895 Joseph John Ruston died and his nephew John Ruston took over the Traunsee steam shipping. In the same year he acquired the screw steamer Marie Valerie , which had been built in Dresden-Neustadt.
Ippy
1909 grew Rustons company's first competition: The shoemaker Rudolf Ippisch returned from his years of traveling back, became a shipping license and initiated an investigation by Elektra , the era of electric boats on the Traunsee one. He mainly drove to the smaller towns on the banks of the Traunsee. Ippisch founded the Traunsee-Motorboot-Gesellschaft mbH Ebensee together with Anton Rößler, Heinrich Angermaier and others . In 1911 and 1912 he added the Traunstein , the Glückauf , the Sonnstein and the Karbach to his fleet . When the First World War broke out, John Ruston was interned. Ippisch negotiated with him about a merger of the two shipping companies, but Ruston initially refused. In the end, however, the then five Ruston steamers were sold to Ippisch and from 1918 there was only one shipping company on the Traunsee, the Traunseer Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft . Ippisch reduced the number of steamers in the following years: in 1920 the Sophie III and the Undine (ex Traunstein (1) ) were sold, and in 1923 the Marie Valerie , which was scrapped in 1938.
In 1927 Rudolf Ippisch set up the Feuerkogel cable car , which gave tourism in the Salzkammergut a new boost. The KdF trips , which began a few years later, were also profitable. The Gisela and Elisabeth were overhauled in the 1920s and 1930s. The Lenau motorboat was purchased in 1938 , and in the same year construction began on the Feuerkogel , which was put into service in 1941. In 1943 the Möve was bought. Rudolf Ippisch died in 1953 and his nephew of the same name took over the Traunseer Schiffahrts- und Seilschwebebahn GmbH . In the same year he bought a ship called the Schwalbe , formerly Nob , and renamed it Rudolf Ippisch . The ship sailed under this name on the Traunsee from 1954. In 1960 Christina was added.
In 1967 the Elisabeth was taken out of service and broken up in 1970. An electric boat named Ludgard was renamed in 1970 after a renovation in the city of Gmunden . The electric ships Sonnstein and Karbach were shut down in 1971 and 1976 because they suffered from weak batteries. In 1976 the Lenau was also decommissioned. The Gisela , which was shut down in 1975, was put back into operation in 1976 with a new boiler. After Rudolf Ippisch junior's death in 1976, the company was sold to his competitor Karl Eder in 1977.
Eder
Karl Eder started his own business in 1951. He had the idea of offering so-called castle tours with his first motorboat, the Erika , which were well received by tourists. In 1958 he bought the excursion boat Christophorus and in 1960 the Franzl . After a few years he gave up on expanding to include Lake Hallstatt . In 1966 the Johann Orth was put into operation, the first new ship that Eder could afford. This was followed by Grünberg , previously Leoni , which he took over in 1973. When he took over the business from Ippisch's heirs, he was already 67 years old. Eder converted the Sonnstein and Karbach for diesel operation. When he lost the operating license for the Gisela in 1980 , the ship was parked in Ebensee. It was restored in 1986 with the help of the Friends of the City of Gmunden. At that time, Karl Eder had already handed over the company to his son Karlheinz, who became the youngest shipping entrepreneur in Austria in 1984.
Karlheinz Eder sold the Sonnstein to the Inn and had the Christina rebuilt. In 1989 he bought a ship named Kriemhild , which was put into service in 1990 under the name Upper Austria . The Upper Austria was the first large saloon passenger boat on Lake Traun. The Karl Eder , built at the Lux shipyard , was put into operation in 1995. In the course of this acquisition, Karlheinz Eder parted with several smaller ships in his fleet. The Feuerkogel was to Heilbronn sold that Gmunden (ex Christina ) to the Altmuehlsee that Karbach to Schmieding, the Upper Austria at the Millstätter See where they named Carinthia received. Johann Orth and Grünberg were completely overhauled in the 1990s, and the Rudolf Ippisch was designed as a nostalgia ship in 2002. 2001 took over Eder from the Attersee Boating the Attersee , the name La Citronella received. In 2002 the ship was renamed again, this time as Joseph J. Ruston , before it came to Berlin in 2005 as La Belle . In 2005, the new Lux Poseidon building was put into operation for this purpose . In 2006 the Maria Theresia followed , in 2008 the Altmünster , which was bought by the shipping company Trawöger in Altmünster . In 2012/13 the Gisela was completely overhauled.
Ten berths in the Traunsee are being approached in regular service today; six passenger ships are currently operational.
In November 2014, the 59th International Inland Shipping Meeting took place, with which the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Traunsee shipping was concluded. An exhibition on the history of shipping on the Traunsee was designed in the Gmundner Kammerhofmuseum. A special stamp designed by Tristan Fischer shows the Gisela in motion on the Traunsee.
Loidl
The Loidl shipping company is the successor to the shipping company on the Traunsee, which was founded by Anton Enichlmayr in Traunkirchen around 1900. The current fleet consists of the passenger ships St. Nikolaus and Monika , a speedboat, two water taxis and several electric boats stationed in Traunkirchen.
In March 2018, the Loidl shipping company was expanded to include the Liberty excursion boat .
Web links
- www.traunseeschifffahrt.at (Eder)
- Pictures and ship data on www.simplonpc.co.uk
- www.schifffahrt-traunsee.at (Loidl)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Simplon - The Passenger Ship Website
- ↑ Renate Perfahl, Roots: From the history of the Salzkammergut , Denkmayr 2008, ISBN 978-3902598479 , p. 125
- ↑ Severin Schenner, 175 years of liner shipping on the Traunsee , in: Dampferzeitung 2, 2014
- ↑ 175 years of shipping on the Traunsee , at www.traunseeschifffahrt.at
- ↑ special postage stamp , on www.traunseeschifffahrt.at
- ↑ Loidl shipping fleet ; accessed on March 22, 2018
- ↑ orf.at of March 22, 2018: excursion boat lifted in Traunsee ; accessed on March 22, 2018