Viking line

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The Vikings - first with the Viking line, from 1998 with the Primus line

The Wikinger-Linie ("Wikinger Linie - Frankfurter Fahrgastschiffahrt Adolf-Ulfried Nauheimer") was an inland shipping company based in Frankfurt am Main , which operated its passenger ships on the Main , Rhine and Neckar and existed from 1976 to 1998.

history

The Nauheimer family had been operating shipping services in and around Frankfurt am Main since 1880, when Peter Nauheimer bought his first ship, the paddle steamer Frankfurt . In the course of the following decades the family operated shipping and worked together with the Flettner family in the shipping association “Flettner-Nauheimer” from around the 1920s to 1959. After the Rheingold was burned in a shipyard, the three Nauheimers and the three sons of the Flettner family sold their ships to the Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt .

Subsequently, Adolf Nauheimer operated with the Wikinger until 1981 and his cousin, Hans Nauheimer with the Vaterland until 1991, of their own in Frankfurt. In 1974 Anton Nauheimer started their own business with the Primus and in 1976 Adolf-Ulfrid Nauheimer with the ship Wikinger 2 .

The founding and company history of his “Viking Line”, named after the ship, is still to be worked on. The shipping company was based on the Mainkai directly on the Eiserner Steg - in the same building as the Primus line of his great cousin Anton Nauheimer.

As of spring 1996, the following transports and routes were being served: The shipping company's ships were in regular service from Easter to mid-October and in December. On-demand transport could be rented all year round. The shipping company's program included special trips from Frankfurt to Mainz , Nierstein , Rüdesheim , Bacharach , St. Goar / Loreley , Boppard , Miltenberg , Heidelberg and Koblenz . In addition, the ships were used or offered for special events such as wine tastings, exhibitions, sales fairs, music rides, dance rides, Mainfest rides, Rhine in Flames, winter fairy tale tours, New Year's eve cruises, special programs for company and club outings and family celebrations.

fate

Since Adolf-Ulfrid Nauheimer did not have a successor, he sold the Wikinger-Linie in July 1998 to his great cousin Anton Nauheimer - the shipowner of the Primus-Linie. Together with the shipping company, the Primus-Linie took over the two active ships Wikinger 1 (2) and Wappen von Frankfurt , both of which still belong to the active fleet of the Primus-Linie.

Ships of the shipping company

There are three known passenger ships in the fleet, two of which were sold to the Primus-Linie in 1998 together with the shipping company.

Surname Year of construction, shipyard Dimensions Passengers in the service of the shipping company Notes, whereabouts
Vikings 2 1976 Karcher shipyard in Freistett 38.70 long × 7.50 wide × 1.10 deep 400 passengers 1976-1994 1995 sold to Berchinger Personenschiffahrt Richard Strik in Berching and renamed King Ludwig . 2000 Resale to Oderhaff Reederei Peters in Ueckermünde, initially for duty-free shopping trips, when Poland joined the EU, passenger traffic between Mescherin and Stettin . Restaurant ship in Ueckermünde since 2005.
Vikings 1 (2) 1988 Lux shipyard , Niederkassel / Mondorf 33.00 long × 7.20 wide × 1.00 deep 250 passengers 1988-1998 Sold to Primus-Linie in 1998 with the shipping company, extended to 37 meters in 2014, still in service with Primus-Linie.
Frankfurt coat of arms 1995 Lux shipyard, Niederkassel / Mondorf 44.80 long × 10.50 wide × 1.30 deep 500 passengers 1995-1998 1998 sold with the shipping company to Primus-Linie, still in service with Primus-Linie.

literature

  • Hermann Wygoda: port city of Frankfurt. The city, its river and its ports , B3 Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-938783-33-7 .
  • An overview of passenger shipping on the Main-Danube waterway , in: Deutscher Kanal- und Schiffahrtsverein Rhein-Main-Donau eV, Nuremberg (Ed.): Bulletin April 1996 - No. 87, Neustadt / Aisch 1996, ISSN  0177-1795 , ( Online version as PDF ).

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wygoda, p. 139, https://www.binnenschifferforum.de/showthread.php?77187-Rheingold-FGS-Baujahr-1949-(Umbau)
  2. ↑ An overview of passenger shipping on the Main-Danube waterway, p. 17
  3. ↑ An overview of passenger shipping on the Main-Danube waterway, p. 17
  4. ↑ Wygoda, p. 139, https://www.primus-linie.de/de/unternehmen/presse/Daten-und-Fakten-zur-Primus-Linie-8.html
  5. ↑ https://www.binnenschifferforum.de/showthread.php?67862-Wikinger-II-FGS-04604510 , http://www.schiffs-agentur.ch/joomla/images/Ship/Main_Donau_Kanal/Dossier%2020%20Main % 20Donau% 20Canal_History.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www.binnenvaart.eu/mutaties/2016/12/24/ , https://www.binnenschifferforum.de/showthread.php?16877-Wikinger-I-(2)-FGS-04306450
  7. ↑ https://www.binnenschifferforum.de/showthread.php?11138-Wappen-Von-Frankfurt-FGS-04307190 , https://www.binnenvaart.eu/mutaties/2016/12/24/