Wencke Dock
The Wencke Dock in Bremerhaven - Mitte , Deichstrasse , was built around 1860.
The dry dock has been a listed building in Bremen since 1978 .
history
In Bremerhaven, founded in 1827, today the Mitte district, in 1833 the shipyard FW Wencke des Schiffszimmer baas ( Low German for master, boss ) Friedrich Wilhelm Wencke was the first to set up a shipbuilding company. At the mouth of the Geeste which was on the right bank Helling by 1845/46 Dock supplemented; it was the second dock in Bremerhaven after the neighboring Johann Lange shipyard . The wooden double dry dock was converted into a larger dry dock made of bricks and shell limestone, with a length of 81 meters and 58 meters respectively and an entrance width of 15 meters. The system, based on English models, was new in Germany. It allowed repairs to ships in the underwater area regardless of the tide .
literature
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Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991 . Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
- Vol. I, pp. 24-25 and 111.
- Nordsee-Zeitung : cement instead of shell limestone. Wencke Dock is being renovated . July 13, 1977, p. 13.
- Dirk J. Peters : Docking facilities in Bremerhaven . In: Dirk J. Peters and Hartmut Bickelmann (eds.): Hafenlandschaft im Wandel , Bremerhaven 2000.
- Wolfgang Brönner : Friedrich Wencke's dry dock . In: Annual meeting of the Association of State Monument Preservators in the Federal Republic of Germany , Bremen 1979.
- Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '23 " N , 8 ° 35' 4.4" E