Zaehringen
 Postcard after a painting by Michael Zeno Diemer
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The steamship Zaehringen was the third from Baden Salon boat on the Bodensee made on August 4, 1888 in service and in 1960 shut down. It is one of the longest-lasting steamers on the lake and was also the first Lake Constance ship from the Munich machine factory JA Maffei .
history
The builder and operator of the Zaehringen was the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways, as the cross-border shipping traffic on Lake Constance was designed as an extension of the railway network. That is why there were no passenger steamers on Lake Constance that sailed under the flag of the German Empire . The paddle steamer was named after the town of Zähringen and the historic Zähringen castle near the Baden city of Freiburg im Breisgau .
The Zaehringen was originally equipped with a triple expansion steam engine, which was replaced in 1904 by a Sulzer superheated steam system. At the same time, the ship was lengthened to 58.8 meters by installing a three-meter-long segment.
After the end of the First World War and the monarchy in Germany, many Lake Constance ships with a ruler's name were renamed in 1919. The Zaehringen was not affected by this, as their name only indirectly referred to the Swabian dynasty of the Zähringen , which was already extinct in the Middle Ages and was linked to the castle and place Zähringen . When the Deutsche Reichsbahn was founded in 1920, along with the state railways , the ships operated by the railway administrations were also transferred to them.
In 1951 the ship was completely modernized, but nine years later, despite its low coal consumption of around 20 kg / km, it fell victim to the German Federal Railways' rationalization program. The Zaehringen counted until they were retired on April 1, 1960, the most widely used steamboats on Lake Constance and reached a total mileage of 2.08 million kilometers. The steamer, very popular with the population, was scrapped in the spring of 1961.
Movie
For the German homeland film Die Fischerin vom Bodensee several outdoor shots were shot on the Zaehringen in 1956 .
literature
- Klaus von Rudolff, Claude Jeanmaire: Shipping on Lake Constance. Volume 2. The heyday of steam shipping. Contribution to the history of Lake Constance, history of the individual ships and registers . ed. from the interest group Bodensee-Schiffahrt, Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen AG 1981, ISBN 3-85649-071-X .
- Karl F. Fritz: Adventure steamboat trip on Lake Constance . MultiMediaVerlag Marcel Hinze, Meersburg 1989, ISBN 3-927484-00-8 .
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: The ships of the railway. Urbes, Graefelfing 1993, ISBN 3-924896-30-5 , p. 16, p. 139.