Ship Johns
The Johns shipyard was a wooden shipyard that was one of the more important Hamburg shipyards on the Grasbrook in Hamburg in the 18th and 19th centuries . The John's corner , on which the Elbphilharmonie stands today , is named after her . A river bathing ship belonged to the shipyard in the 19th century.
history
The Johns shipyard had existed since at least 1737 at the far west end of the Great Grasbrook. The area was taken over by the Admiralty, which had previously used it as a storage area. The first tenant of the site was Christian Peter Johns (1714–1784), who handed the yard to his son Kornelius Peter Johns (1757–1818). Andreas Hinrich Johns (1790–1854) finally held the position in the third generation. Andreas Hinrich Johns received official shipbuilding approval in 1818 after he had bought himself into the shipbuilding brotherhood as a freelance master .
The shipyard made a name for itself for conversions and scrapping. In addition, smaller ships and port vehicles were built. Presumably numerous ships were built at the shipyard as a subcontract for the neighboring Somm shipyard, for example the barque "Johns" in 1841 for the tea merchant Christian Jacob Johns .
The largest documented ship that was built at the shipyard is the wooden barque "North America", built in 1847/48 , the second ship of the HAPAG shipping company founded immediately before . After extensive research, HAPAG decided in favor of the first ships for Hamburg shipyards, as these were considered more solid - even if they were more expensive. Costs and construction time were higher and longer than originally planned, as the German-Danish war made it difficult to obtain the timber. The "North America" left on November 10, 1848 for the first voyage to New York. Adolph Godeffroy, the chairman of the first board of directors of HAPAG, stated at the general assembly at the end of 1848: “In the two finished ships ( Germany and North America ) the cabin and tween deck furnishings are as pretty and comfortable as one could wish, while avoiding all superfluous luxuries. In each of these ships there is a small library, all stoneware on board is labeled with the name of the respective ship, the linen is plentiful for the needs of the passengers. In particular, consideration was given to providing each passenger with their own bed. ”It was precisely their own beds that set the ships apart from the competition at the time.
Cornelius Christian Heinrich Johns took over the shipyard in the fourth generation and moved to Kleine Grasbrook in 1859/60. The background to this was the port expansion with the adjustments to the port basin, in the course of which all shipyards had to relocate from the Großer Grasbrook to the other side of the Elbe at their own expense. A memorandum from the Commerzdeputation set the framework for the expansion of the Hamburg port in 1856 after decades of discussion. Part of this was the expropriation of the land on the Großer Grasbrook in order to enable uniform port use. The idea of the tidal harbor has now been realized . To do this, the entrance to the Sandtorhafen at John's corner had to be expanded. Cornelius Christian Heinrich Johns was married to the Scottish writer Annie Wellstood.
In 1865 Cornelius Christian Heinrich Johns stopped the shipyard operations, which were then taken over by the Wichhorst shipyard .
The son Henry Eugen Johns continued the family's shipbuilding tradition as director of the Germania shipyard in Kiel (1882–1885) and Rostock's Neptun shipyard (1885–1892). In 1892 he set up his own shipbuilding office in Hamburg and built the Hamburg state launch “Hamburg”.
Bathing establishment
To expand the activities, Andreas Hinrich Johns built a river bathing facility in 1834/5, which was accessible via the shipyard. In the first years it was the only public bathing establishment in Hamburg. The bathing establishment was relocated several times and existed until 1887.
Ships that were built at the Johns shipyard
- Auguste Dorothea
- Built in 1830, Galeasse , 25 CL for Carl Ewald Nicolassen, Hamburg
- North America
- Year of construction 1848, barque , passenger glider, size L: 130.4 m / W: 34 m / H: 18 m, 419 BRT / 558 tdw / 186 CL; 20 cabin passengers and 200 intermediate decks; Crew 16
- from 1848 used in the America trip especially for emigrants; Sold to Wencke (Hamburg) in 1858, passed to Chr. Dybvadt & Sons (Christiana) in 1859.
The Bark Elbe is repeatedly wrongly assigned .
literature
- The port facilities on Grasbrook . A memorandum from the Commerz Deputation. Hamburg, 1858. Here in particular Annex 2, page 9.
- Walter Kresse: List of ships in the Hamburg shipping companies 1824–1888, Part I – III , Hamburg 1969
- Jürgen Meyer: Hamburg's sailing ships 1795-1945 , Norderstedt 1971
- Hans Jürgen Witthöft: HAPAG Hamburg America Line , Hamburg, 1973
- Arnold Kludas, Herbert Bischoff: The ships of the Hamburg-America line. Volume 1: 1847-1906. , Herford, 1979
- Dieter Maass: The expansion of the port of Hamburg. 1840-1910 , Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-87700-073-8
- Wilhelm Chr. K. Stammer: Hamburg's shipyards 1635–1993. More than 350 years of shipbuilding on the Elbe and its tributaries in the area of the city-state of Hamburg , Hamburg 1994, self-published
- Hella Kemper: Elbe swimmer. The return of a bathing culture. Hamburg, 2006
- Ulrike Lange-Basman: Three-masted schooner and steam launch , Bremerhaven 2009, ISBN 978-3-86927-068-5
- Port report . Edition 3/2009 of March 17, 2009, Breitengrad Verlag GmbH Hamburg, p. 12
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Kaever: Kuhwiese, Werft, Kaiserspeicher , Die Zeit, November 29, 2016.
- ↑ Lange-Basmann: Three-masted schooner ... , page 137
- ^ Witthöft: HAPAG ... , page 11
- ↑ Kemper: Elbschwimmer ... , page 35f
- ↑ Walter Kresse: Seeschiffs -verzeichnis ... , part 1, p. 187
- ↑ Kludas: The Ships ... , page 20
- ↑ Jürgen Meyer: Hamburger Segelschiffe ... , p. 70