!!!Schiffbau

Shipbuilding: The building of wooden ships by master ship builders 
organised in guilds began in Austria as far back as the Middle Ages. 
Braunau became the centre for Danube shipping and the Salzkammergut 
district was the centre for salt transportation. War ships were built 
in Vienna from the early 16%%sup th/%  century onwards. When the  
Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft (DDSG) was founded in 1829, the 
building of steamships also began ("Franz I" steamer, 
1830) and shipyards were established.

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The Linzer Werft shipyard was established in 1840 by Ignatz  Mayer, 
and was taken over by the state in 1946 ( nationalisation). Mayer 
built the first Danube freight crane made of iron in Linz in 1840; 
until 1990 the shipyard constructed a total of around 1,500 ships. In 
the wake of the  privatisation of state-run industries, the Linz 
shipyard was taken over by  Auricon Beteiligungs AG in 1992 and has 
since then carried on business under the name OeSWAG Werft Linz 
Ges. m. b. H. Since 1999 it has been part of  
Waagner-Biro Binder AG. Today it mainly repairs and reconstructs ships 
and overhauls passenger ships in the winter month.

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The shipyard in Korneuburg was founded in 1852 as a repair wharf for 
the DDS; from 1938-1945 it was extensively enlarged and was then 
placed under Soviet control until 1955 ( USIA). In 1959 it was hived 
off from the DDSG group and founded as an independent joint-stock 
company. In 1974 it was merged with the Linzer Werft, and in 1993 the 
Korneuburg shipyard, which had been responsible for building 
ocean-going ships, refrigerated vessels and passenger ships for the 
Soviet Union, was dissolved.

!Literature
F. Pisecky, 150 Jahre Eisenschiffbau an der 
oesterreichischen Donau, 1990.


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