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Chain Boat Navigation On The Elbe And Saale Rivers
Chain boat navigation on the Elbe and Saale rivers was a special type of ship transport that dominated motorised Inland navigation, inland shipping on the Elbe and Saale river in the second half of the 19th century. A Chain boat, chain tug pulled several barges along a chain laid in the river. Until chain boat navigation revolutionised inland shipping in Germany from 1866 onwards, initially on the Elbe, Burlak, towing was the predominant type of propulsion for upstream ships. After the chain was removed, up to 28 chain tugs sailed upstream of the Elbe over a total distance of 668 kilometres (Hamburg to Ústí nad Labem, Aussig in Bohemia). From 1890 onwards, the importance of chain shipping in the area of the lower Elbe continued to decline in favour of paddle steam tugs and was completely discontinued here by 1898. On the Upper Elbe, it was able to survive until 1926/27 and was then only used locally in Germany until 1943 in three short, particularly difficult sections of the Elbe. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Gartenlaube (1882) B 253
(; ) was the first successful mass-circulation German language, German newspaper and a forerunner of all modern magazines.Sylvia Palatschek: ''Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (Oxford: Berghahn, 2010) p. 41 It was founded by publisher Ernst Keil and editor Ferdinand Stolle in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, in 1853. Their objective was to reach and enlighten the whole family, especially in the German middle classes, with a mixture of current events, essays on the natural sciences, biographical sketches, short stories, poetry, and full-page illustrations.Kirsten Belgum: "Domesticating the Reader: Women and Die Gartenlaube" in: ''Women in German Yearbook 9'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993) p. 93-100 At the height of its popularity was widely read across the German-speaking world. It could be found in all List of historic states of Germany, German states, the German colonies in Africa and among the significant German-speaking minorities of Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
