Heringslogger

Here a review of the past great herring fishery is given. Since spring 1995, the lugger has been moored as another museum ship next to the lightship in the Emder Ratsdelft. Herring fishing had a centuries-old tradition in Emden. In 1872, after a period of decline, it was resumed until, after far-reaching restructuring, rationalization and the reduction of capacities, it finally came to an end in 1976. The "Arbeitskreis Museumslogger e. V. Emden" (Emden Museum Logger Working Group) had been trying for some time to acquire an Emden logger, which was to be given its place in the Ratsdelft as a floating testimony to the former Emden herring fishery. In 1987, Mr. Werner Kühn from Bremerhaven donated his wooden sailing lugger to the working group. It had been built in 1908 at a shipyard in Scheveningen/NL to sail as a lugger on herring fishing for Dutch account. From 1931, it was then used in Norway as a cargo sailer in coastal shipping, primarily as a cement transporter, and was fitted with an auxiliary engine there in 1950. In 1977, she came to Bremerhaven, where she was supposed to be converted into a floating restaurant.