Ferry transport in Berlin

Ferry traffic in Berlin is partially operated on behalf of the Berlin Transport Authority ( BVG) and is also partially integrated in accordance with the tariff system of the Transport Association Berlin -Brandenburg ( VBB).

Line network of BVG

There are five ferry routes that ships with the star and Kreisschiffahrt ( line F10 ) or the White Fleet Stralsund (remaining lines) on behalf of the BVG be driven:

The ferry F10, F11 and F12 are operated year-round, others seasonally from March to October.

The ferry line F10 on the Wannsee is 4.4 kilometers, the longest and with around 150,000 passengers annually the most widely used. The line is operated with changing ships. Until the end of 2013 was the summer the lights field used, and in the winter when less trippers go, the smaller Tempelhof. Since 20 January 2014, the Wannsee is used for the line.

The ferry F11, F12, F21 and F23 are operated since early 2014 with electric ferries.

The oldest ferry is the ferry between 11 Wilhelm beach and Baumschulenweg that has gone to the industrial exhibition 1896 in operation.

The former ferry 24 ( Spree meadows ↔ Rahn village) on the Müggelspree until the 2013 season was the smallest since six BVG ferry, it was Germany's only rowing ferry in regular service and was operated with a rowing boat ( Paule III). The boat was three meters long and could accommodate eight people, bicycles are transported. About 40 times a day put the ferryman Ronald Kebelmann about 36 meters. Although there existed a roadmap, but was set at other times, when people stand at the dock. This had since 1911, when the Rahnsdorfer Fischer Richard Hilliges began with the ferry, not changed. After the end of the old contracts with the Berlin star and boat tours of the operation of Berlin's only rowing ferry was expected to cease with the end of the 2013 season.

  • Rahnsdorfer ferrymen Richard Hilliges (1911-1942)
  • Richard Hörnke (1947-1978)
  • Paul Rahn (1978-2002)
  • Since 2002: various ferrymen of the Berlin star and boat tours, Berlin on behalf of the BVG

Other lines

Furthermore, there are the:

  • Private car ferry between hook field and Konradshöhe, Spandau district
  • Private passenger ferry between hook field and Konradshöhe with round trip to the islands Valentinswerder and boughs Werder (both in the district Reinickendorf)
  • Peacock Island Ferry: the small passenger ferry Louise (built in 1968), which accommodates 25 people, and a twenty -ton car ferry ( 22.2 meters), which can transport a car and 150 people. The ferry is operated by the Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens and the day is in use.
  • The Scharfenberg ferry on Lake Tegel to the island Scharfenberg.
  • Private passenger ferry on the Havel to the island Lindwerder ( in the Steglitz- Zehlendorf )
  • The Potsdam Water Taxi as ferry between the pitcher Horn Steglitz-Zehlendorf district in the park of Klein-Glienicke and Potsdamer district Sacrow.

Pictures

Passenger ship Lichterfelde in use as a passenger ferry between Wannsee and Kladow

The Peacock Island Ferry

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