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Stadt
Wien
Operating Area
: River Danube,
Austria
Above : Stadt Wien in Budapest on 23rd February, 2020. Photo by kind courtesy of Zsolt Szabo
Built in 1939 by Werft
Korneuburg, Vienna, Austria
Engines : Diesel electric by Sulzer / Brown-Boveri
Length 77.7 metres - Breadth 8.4 m / 15.2 m over sponsons
650 Displacement tonnes
Fitted with 24 cabins for overnight accommodation for River Danube
cruises from Vienna to
Passau
Built for DDSG -
Erste Donau Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft
Remained on the long cruises primarily from Vienna to Passau until
1995 except for a short time in the late 1980s
Sold to Mr Willi Stift, Burgermeister of Tulln for use as a restaurant and
hotel but providing cruises
along the Danube's magnificent Wachau valley on Summer
Saturdays.
Stadt Wien and her
1940 sister Stadt Passau were the mainstay of overnight cruises along
the Danube from Vienna in Austria to Passau in Germany until their
owners the DDSG (Erste Donau Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft) went out
of business in 1995. Stadt Wien was bought by the Mayor of Tulln and
underwent considerable internal refurbishment for service as a
restaurant, also providing overnight accommodation at Tulln with cruising on summer Saturdays, offering a full day
trip from Tulln to Aggstein and return through the Wachau Valley.
For 2009
it was announced that Stadt Wien would no longer operate scheduled servoces
from Tulln into the Wachau valley, but three cruises were advertised for June
and other dates in June offered as available for private charters
In
early 2020 Willi Stift sold the ship. She moved to Budapest and it was
reported that it was planned for her take up service from the Hungarian
capital city.. However, she received a refurbishment in the Hungarian
capital and returned to Tulln under its new ownership.
Above : Motor paddler Stadt Wien : Photo by Jessica
Drescher
Above : Stadt
Wien at Budapest, alongside sister-ship Grof Szechenyi on 7th April 2009. Photo
courtesy of Zsolt Szabo. Is her future to be in the Hungarian capital ?
Above : Stadt Wien at Tulln on August 16th, 2010. Photo by kind courtesy of Phil Barnes
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