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Stade Cabbage Day
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Stade celebrates Cabbage Day. The historic Giekewer “Frieda” collects fresh cabbage and other vegetables directly from the Dithmarschen Cabbage Days and brings them to Stade by the sea. The ‘Frieda’ moors in Stade’s Stadthafen harbour.
A Stade wholesale company, ‘Johannes Kammann OHG’, will be offering a wide variety of cabbages and other vegetables at cost price from on board the ship. There are no limits to your creativity when it comes to conjuring up tasty dishes with the many varieties of cabbage, from pointed cabbage and red cabbage to white and savoy cabbage.
STADE Marketing und Tourismus GmbH is supporting the event.
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The date for 2026 will be announced soon.
On a cabbage tour with the Frieda
Ewer Frieda
Experience the transport of goods as it once was. On Stade Cabbage Day, the historic ‘Elbe Ewer’ travels along its historic route again.
From the Stade Stadthafen, it crosses the river Elbe to Kollmar, where the Dithmarscher cabbage and freshly harvested vegetables are collected directly from the farmers. The passengers can lend a hand loading the goods onto the ship. The ship then returns to Stade fully laden.
The Frieda was built in 1909 at the Jungewerft shipyard in Wewelsfleth. She followed a typical path of a cargo ship of the time. She secured the income of a family of skippers for two generations until it was no longer profitable. She was then rebuilt and transferred to a larger fleet. The conversion of the Frieda involved the installation of an auxiliary engine, the lengthening and later removal of the entire rig and finally, the conversion back into a sailing ship by enthusiasts.
The Frieda now sails in her original condition from 1909 and is protected as a mobile cultural monument in her original sailing area on the Elbe. She has since found her home port in the Stade Stadthafen harbour not far from the river Elbe.
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Industrial Heritage Days
The Industrial Heritage Days by the Water offer a programme that is as diverse as the region itself: historic cargo ships, museums, old water mills and much more – on the Industrial Heritage Days on 27 and 28 September, visitors can discover over 100 locations and industrial monuments that play a very special role in the Hamburg metropolitan region. Three of them are located in Stade. Water is the unifying element, and so the Stadthafen harbour in Stade is included in the programme with the coaster Greundiek, the Giekewer Frieda and the harbour crane. This weekend, visitors can learn about and discover the significance of the various industries for the development and history of the region and also for Stade.
DORA of Stade
The DORA von Stade was built as a cargo barge in Itzehoe, launched in 1902 by its owner, skipper Dietrich Hinrich Beckmann from Uetersen, and named after his wife Dora.
With a load capacity of 65 tonnes, a length of 19 metres and a width of 5 metres, the two-masted mizzen Ewer (a small, Frisian build of ship) was originally used on the river Elbe to transport building materials, bricks and cement. Reinhard Nagel, a vintage car enthusiast from Stade, finally discovered the then dilapidated cargo ship in Krautsand in 1999 and purchased it. It underwent two years of extensive restoration and conversion to transform it into a small motor sailer in the style of the 1930s. With a new quarterdeck, wooden wheelhouse, folding mast, 200 hp diesel engine with gearbox and shafting, even a workshop, many other innovations and a new coat of paint, the DORA now has a modern yet historic appearance.
Privately owned, the ‘Dora von Stade’ has been moored in Stade’s city harbour since 2002.
In keeping with the spirit of the Hanseatic city, maritime traditions meet regional character and hospitality. Originally built in Schleswig-Holstein, the DORA returns once a year to Schleswig-Holstein to ship freshly harvested cabbage from a Dithmarschen vegetable farm to Stade as a highlight of the Dithmarschen Cabbage Days. After all, Dithmarschen is Europe’s largest contiguous cabbage growing region.