Shipyards in Cuxhaven

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The shipyards in Cuxhaven mainly dealt with the construction and repair of fishing vessels, but the new building played a subordinate role and particularly concerned ewer , small fishing vessels , barges and tugs .

Elbe from Hamburg to Cuxhaven
The main halls for emigrant and passenger handling
Port around 1910
Ships in the harbor, 1928
The Beckmann shipyard bought the Rositz in 1952 and extended the hull at its own shipyard

history

In 1393 Hamburg conquered the Ritzebüttel Castle from the Knights Lappe , who had previously ruled as feudal lords of the Duke of Saxony-Lauenburg , and in 1394 founded the Hamburg Office of Ritzebüttel , which was expanded into a protective harbor and base against pirates . In 1872 Ritzebüttel was combined with Cuxhaven to form the hamburg rural community of Cuxhaven . In 1937 Cuxhaven was handed over to the Prussian province of Hanover , the America port and the Steubenhöft passenger terminal remained Hamburg's property until 1993. The deep-water port originally planned by Hamburg near the islands of Neuwerk and Scharhörn has not yet been realized. As a result, Hamburg had to spend more and more money on deepening the Elbe with the growing ship sizes . In 2005 the container blocking clause was lifted , thereby lifting the ban on handling containers .

Port city of Cuxhaven

In addition to fishing, Cuxhaven became important for the large passenger ships of the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) around 1890 , as the Elbe was too shallow for direct traffic to the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken . The regular traffic to the USA was handled by the Steubenhöft , a pier at the America port in Cuxhaven. The largest ships in the world at the time, the HAPAG transatlantic liners Imperator and Vaterland , also departed from here for New York City and Boston . The passengers and emigrants arriving by train to the America station in Cuxhaven were processed in the Hapag halls directly at the pier. With the deepening of the Elbe, its importance for passenger shipping decreased. The advances in aviation, greater ranges and larger aircraft, also led to falling numbers of passenger shipping. Today Cuxhaven is called by cruise ships and seaside resorts to Helgoland and Neuwerk.

Shipyards in Cuxhaven

In the past there were several shipyards that were mainly engaged in repairing fishing vessels. The construction of new ships only played a subordinate role.

Surname Period Location comment
Georg Klemeke 1792–? Cuxhaven
Elfers shipyard 1802-1816 Cuxhaven Small business with forge and from 1805 carpentry . 1816 Takeover by the Dürels shipyard
Dürels shipyard 1816-1820 Cuxhaven Taken over by the Bufe shipyard in 1820
Eggers shipyard 1816-1889 Cuxhaven In addition to ship repairs, she mainly built coastal ships and 18 larger ships, but failed to switch from wooden to steel shipbuilding.
JC Bufe 1820-1895 Cuxhaven Originally the forge of J. Dürels, around 15 new buildings such as briggs , kuffs , schooners , barges and full ships were built here , the site was sold to Mützelfeldt
Mützelfeldtwerft 1895 – today Cuxhaven In 1903 Franz Mützelfeldt took over the von Bufe shipyard, new shipbuilding of Loggern u. Fishing cutters , later coasters, etc. Tug, a total of around 150 new buildings were built
Beckmann shipyard 1920 / 42–1971 Cuxhaven The Beckmann shipyard emerged from a chain forge, was then a repair and conversion shipyard that built the lightship Außenjade in addition to fishing ships . In 1971 it was merged with SUAG , closed in 1981 and taken over by Mützelfeldt in 1982
Böhmewerft 1938-1979 Cuxhaven After the Second World War, Oskar Böhme built small fishing trawlers, and later also sports boats
Döscher shipyard 1945–1964 / 69 Cuxhaven Construction, conversion and repair of cutters , especially from the fishing industry in timber construction as well as Heligoland boat boats
Mews shipyard 1945–1978 Cuxhaven Construction, conversion and repair of cutters, mainly from the fishing industry in timber construction. 1980 taken over by the company Empting / Glüsing
Boat and shipyard in Cuxhaven 1978 – today Cuxhaven Former Mews shipyard. The owner is Plambeck Holding. Focus on repairs, maintenance and maritime services
Shipyard and yacht yard Cuxhaven 1979 – today Cuxhaven Takeover of the Böhmewerft by the Detzkeit family with the NARG shipping company; Boat building, repairs and maritime services

literature

  • Peter Bussler: Historical city lexicon for Cuxhaven . Special publication of the Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Volume 36. Cuxhaven 2002, ISBN 3-931771-36-9 .
  • Werner Jakobeit, Günter Kramp, Willi Schäfer: The Beckmann shipyard. Chronology of a Cuxhaven shipyard (series of publications by the Förderverein Schifffahrtsgeschichte Cuxhaven e.V., edition 10b (V1L / May 2016)). Own print, Cuxhaven 2016.
  • Nik Schumann: Mützeldfeldtwerft . Verlag August Rauschenplat, Cuxhaven 2015, ISBN 93-6619-44-3-5 .

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