Bodan-Werft

The Bodan Shipyard Metal GmbH & Co. KG is a special shipyard based in the Baden -Württemberg Kressbronn in Germany. After the shipbuilding divisions continue to exist for the pool and metal as well as for the operation of a port.

History

The company was founded in 1919 by Hermann Stachelhaus was the first industrial shipyard on Lake Constance and then put forth as the only company on Lake Constance steel ships. The first focus of production were motor fishing boats. Licenses of the German car manufacturer, Benz & Cie. were built, as well as smaller passenger motor boats and private yachts. 1927, the first lake ferry for the newly established ferry Konstanz - Meersburg in the shipyard was manufactured.

An increasingly important Contracting Authority from 1920 was the German Reichsbahn, which took over the passenger boat trip on Lake Constance on country lanes. First, the German Reichsbahn leaving only smaller vessels in the Bodan -Werft built and moved into the big units of yards outside the Lake Constance region.

During World War II the company was committed and the Navy landing craft built for the Wehrmacht. Part of the production was dismantled after the war, but already from 1946 people again fishing boats and ships were rebuilt from 1949. By modernizing and expanding the shipyard was now also able to manufacture larger ship units.

Major customers in addition to Deutsche Reichsbahn or their successors as operators of the German White Fleet since 1952, the Lake Zurich Navigation Company ( CCU ), which today still has eleven active ships ( including the flagship MS Helvetia ) and three Limmat boats Bodan -Werft, as well as the Zurich - ferry Horgen miles AG, which has ordered a total of five ferries from 1968.

The term " Bodan ferry" were after Bodan -Werft named pioneer ferries 1962-2001 in the German army in action.

According to the Notice of IG Metall on 28 December 2010, the Group Bodan Kressbronn the divisions yard and construction office intends to adjust the spring of 2011 and to liquidate due to debt. On 19 March 2011, some of the council, with the aid of IG Metall, and the management of a social plan. In the spring of 2011, the Bodan -Werft has been reviewed by the Regional Council of Tübingen, for the proposed use change on cultural heritage value. In May was told the owner that it is a cultural monument of scientific and local historical reasons for the Bodan -Werft. On 6 July 2011, the Technical Committee of the Municipal Council of Kressbronn approved the request that all buildings of the yard demolished and the land to another use is to be supplied. The public learned on 2 August 2011 that the Bodan -Werft is a listed building. Several citizens' groups are committed to the preservation of historic buildings, and the use of plots of land for the purposes of the public.

Ships

Lake Constance

The Bodan -Werft made a number of ships that were formative for the Bodenseeschifffahrt and are:

Ferries Bodan, Fontainebleau, Fritz Arnold, Hegau, Constance (1930 ), Constance (1975 ), Kreuzlingen, Lodi, Meersburg ( 1928), Meersburg (1980 ), Tabor and Thurgau the ferry Konstanz - Meersburg (previously was only a Bodenseefähre, the Linzgau, not built by the Bodan -Werft )
Ferries Euregia, Friedrichshafen, Roman horn and Schussen the ferry Friedrichshafen novel horn
Catamarans Constanze, Ferdinand and Fridolin the catamaran connection Friedrichshafen constancy.
The motor boats eagle, falcon, hawk, Milan and sparrow bird of prey class
More Motorboats for scheduled and charter traffic: Bludenz, Dornbirn, Emily, Feldkirch, hair dryer and Reichenau
The ships of the line arenas Berg ( 1936), arenas Berg ( 1983 ), Baden, Bavaria, Hegau, Friedrichshafen, Grand Duke Ludwig, Constance ( 1925), Constance (1940 ), Constance (1964 ), Kreuzlingen, Lindau (1958 ), Lindau (2006), Mainau, Meersburg, Mettnau, Munich, Munot (1936 ), Munot (1998), Ravensburg, Reichenau, Rhynegg, Rhyspitz, Santis, Schaffhausen, Swabia, St. Gallen, city of Constance, city of Radolfzell, Stein am Rhein, Stuttgart, Thurgau ( 1932), Thurgau (1965 ), Überlingen and Zurich
The sun queen, currently by far the largest Bodenseeschifffahrt (in terms of displacement )

Lake Zurich

Lake Zurich ferry Horgen miles: Swan (1969 ), Miles (1979 ), Horgen (1991 ), Lake Zurich (1999 ), Castle (2003)
Lake Zurich Navigation Company: Linth (1952 ), Santis (1957 ) Limmat (1958), Bachtel (1962), Helvetia ( 1964), Wädenswil (1968), Albis ( 1997), Pfannenstiel (1998 ) Uetliberg ( 1999), Zimmerberg (2001 ) Forch (2001); Limmat ships: Turicum (1992 ), Felix (1993 ), regulators (1993 )