Shipyards in Havelberg
Due to its location on the Havel and its proximity to the Elbe, as well as the abundance of wood, Havelberg offered ideal conditions for a port and a shipyard . The customs privileges and the delivery of seaworthy ships from the shipyards led to the city's national significance over a longer period of time.
history
The Electoral Havelberg shipyard was founded by Benjamin Raule in 1687 . It was directed by C. Elling and closed after 15 ships were built in 1700 or 1701.
The Royal Sea Shipyard was founded in Havelberg in 1779 by the Royal Main Timber Administration and managed by the Swedish shipbuilder Johann Samuel Sepelius and closed in 1786.
In 1888, the Fahrendorff shipyard was founded on the site of the old building yard, which was later relocated to Sandauer Brücke and sold to Wilhelm Stutzer in 1898.
In 1893 Robert Marks and Franz Grabert founded the Grabert shipyard in Havelberg .
The Rabenau shipyard was founded in 1801 and in 1870 the shipyard was taken over by the nephew Wilhelm Stutzer. In 1953 it became the VEB ship repair yard, it existed in Havelberg until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was then managed and privatized by the trust. The Hamburg shipbuilding dynasty Grube took over the shipyard in 1991 and returned it to the Treuhand due to the closure of the Untere Havelwasserstraße. In 1997 it was bought by master carpenter Andreas Lewerken and wife von der Treuhand and re-established as the Kiebitzberg shipyard , which builds innovative CO 2 -neutral ships here .
Electoral shipyard Havelberg
The Dutch shipowner and businessman Benjamin Raule had lost his business and his fortune in the Dutch War in 1672. Around 1675 he went to Brandenburg, which was at war with Sweden. He offered his services to the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg since 1640, came from the House of Hohenzollern and gave Raule a letter of piracy that allowed him to capture Swedish ships. Brandenburg had very few naval forces of its own and was grateful for such help against the naval power of Sweden .
Benjamin Raule then set up the Brandenburg Navy on behalf of the Elector of Brandenburg in Berlin , which was successfully used in several sieges in 1677 and 1678. In 1680, 28 ships were already sailing under the Brandenburg flag. Meanwhile, in the rank of “General Director de Marine”, Raule had suggested building his own shipyards. Influenced by his youth in Holland, Friedrich Wilhelm's interests were directed towards building up his own sea fleet and acquiring colonies. The Great Elector described shipping and trade as a noble task of the state and wanted to acquire colonies overseas.
In 1677 the first shipyard in Kolberg was founded as the Electoral Shipyard Kolberg . The shipyard was relocated to Pillau in 1680. This was followed by the founding of the Berlin Electoral Shipyard in Dorotheenstadt in 1684 and the Havelberg Electoral Shipyard in 1687 . In previous years, Benjamin Raule had already used Havelberg as a wood stacking area for his private timber trade. The shipyard was managed by C. Elling and was closed after the construction of 15 ships in 1700 or 1701 and sold in 1702. Because the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm died in 1688 and his successor Friedrich I (Prussia) ran out of money for the maintenance of the ships and colonies in Africa and the settlement in the Caribbean.
Royal Shipyard
In 1779 the Royal Sea Shipyard in Havelberg was founded by the Royal Main Timber Administration. It was headed by the Swedish shipbuilder Johann Samuel Sepelius. This company drove European trade in particular with oak wood for shipbuilding and beams and planks made of fir wood. Trade was carried out via the Szczecin and Hamburg ports with its own ships and the most important trading partners were in England, Holland and France.
18 larger ships, mainly for the Prussian sea trade and 6 herring tins were built and delivered.
Marks / Grabert shipyard
The Grabert shipyard was founded in 1893 by Robert Marks and Franz Grabert in Havelberg. Repairs for ships from the Havel and Elbe regions were mainly carried out on the slipway of the Grabert shipyard on the Havel between the two former squares of the Electoral Shipyard and the Royal Sea Shipyard. Marks and Grabert separated in 1903 and several new buildings were built at the Grabert shipyard in the period that followed.
Rabenau shipyard, Stutzer
The Rabenau shipyard was founded in 1801 and was located on the site of the old building yard in today's Bahnhofstrasse until 1888. In 1870 the shipyard was taken over by nephew Wilhelm Stutzer. This shipyard mainly built wooden barges and barges. The Fahrendorff shipyard, originally located at the building yard, was sold to Stutzer in 1898. The inland freighter named Rathenow was the last new building at the Stutzer Werft, was built in 1930 for its own account and had a load capacity of 299 t. In 1953 the shipyard was nationalized and renamed VEB Schiffsreparaturwerft. After the reunification it was privatized again and taken over by Jörg Grube in 1993 and later by the Kiebitzberg Group.
VEB ship repair yard and pit yard
The VEB ship repair yard existed in Havelberg from 1953 until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was then managed and privatized by the trust. The Hamburg shipbuilding dynasty Grube took over the shipyard in 1993, after which it was managed by their son Jörg Grube. Grube carried out new builds and repairs of ships until the Untere Havelwasserstraße was closed to cargo shipping for environmental reasons. Due to the lack of commercial shipping, the orders fell and Grube filed for bankruptcy in 1997.
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Kiebitzberg shipyard
Master carpenter Andreas Lewerken and Mrs. Renate bought the shipyard from Treuhand in 1998 and re-established it as Kiebitzberg Schiffswerft GmbH & Co.KG. The shipbuilder Ulrich Ahrens, a shipbuilder, a welder and a carpenter was taken over from the previous workforce. They were the last of the previous 85 employees.
The shipyard's 28,000 m² site on the Havel was gutted, buildings were converted and rebuilt, and furniture workshops for carpentry work and for the production of kitchen worktops, vanity units and design objects for customers throughout Germany were created. In addition, new shipbuilding halls were built, which were equipped with modern facilities for aluminum processing.
The shipyard began with the interior fittings, followed by repair orders and later the construction of new special ships. The first new ship was delivered in 2001 and the shipyard has increasingly specialized in the construction of aluminum ships . The initial three employees have grown to over 100 by 2020.
In 2019 and 2020 the shipyard delivered innovative CO 2 -neutral solar ships to Berlin, which were designed for 180 day passengers. These ships were ordered by the Solar Circle Line , Berlin's first purely solar-powered passenger ship shipping company. One of the first steps to make Berlin's waterways more environmentally friendly.
literature
- Renate & Andreas Lewerken: Kibitznews - 30 years of Kiebitzberg; Havelberg in April 2015
Web links
- Havelbergers look around the shipyard
- Kiebitzberg Shipyard website accessed on January 16, 2020
- Photos and data from the SunCat 120 accessed on January 18, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] , accessed June 26, 2020
- ↑ SolarCircleLine , accessed January 16, 2020