Weser pride
The Weserstolz as a guest at the Schlachte in Bremen in 2009 as the coat of arms of Minden
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The Weserstolz (formerly Labe and Wappen von Minden ) is the only paddle steamer operated on the Weser . The ship is stationed in Bremen and was previously based in Minden . It undertakes excursions from the Schlachte in Bremen and belongs to the passenger shipping company Hal Över .
history
The ship, which was under construction in 1940, was not completed until 1949 by the Praga shipyard in Prague due to the Second World War . The Czechoslovakian Elbe Shipping Company (ČSPL) put it into service under the name Labe on July 14, 1949 and used it on the Vltava . In 1976/77 a closed saloon was built on the originally open aft deck. Most recently, the Labe was the shipping company's last coal-fired paddle steamer.
After a boiler damage and some other technical defects, the ship was decommissioned in 1986. After the outer wall was rusted through, it sank on August 17, 1997 in the Vltava near Smíchov .
In 1998 the ship was salvaged and acquired by the Minden Development and Economic Development Corporation (MEW). In Minden it was restored with the help of a job creation measure. An oil-fired three-pass single-flame tube ship's steam boiler was built in 2000.
In 2001 the steamer was put back into service under the name Wappen von Minden by Mindener Fahrgastschiffahrt GmbH & Co. KG and used as a passenger ship on the Weser and Mittelland Canal . The home port was the Schlagde in Minden. Among other things, trips to Hann. Münden and Bremen offered. After years of poor economic activity, the shipping company did not extend the lease at the end of 2008 and returned the ship to the owner, MEW (a 100% subsidiary of the city of Minden). From 2009 to 2011, MEW operated the ship itself.
It became increasingly difficult to operate the paddle steamer economically. In the summer of 2011, for example, it was often at the pier in front of Minden and was also used as a restaurant ship. In 2012, the Minden coat of arms was leased to a new operator, the shipping company Flotte Weser .
At the beginning of 2015, the Minden coat of arms was jointly acquired as the new owner by the shipping companies Flotte Weser and Hal Över from Bremen. On April 14, 2015, the new owners announced the renaming of the ship to Weserstolz . The last time the ship was relocated from Minden to Bremen under the name Wappen von Minden was on April 20, 2015 , and was given its new name Weserstolz on April 23, 2015 . Since then, the ship has been at the Martinian pier on the Schlachte in Bremen.
The paddle steamer Weserstolz has been for sale since February 2020.
Ships with the same name
A passenger ship named Weserstolz had been part of the Schreiber shipping company’s fleet since 1935 . This was - presumably before the Hanseat acquired in 1988 - sold to Sweden.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: paddle steamer "Wappen von Minden" under a new flag, edition of January 4, 2012 , accessed on January 5, 2012.
- ^ Reederei Hal Över Homepage: Renaming of the ship to Weserstolz , accessed on April 15, 2015.
- ↑ https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-stadt_artikel,-schaufelraddampfer-weserstolz-wird-verkauf-_arid,1898335.html
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '27.6 " N , 8 ° 48' 14.3" E