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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.
Next date
Saturday, 21 September, 7:30 am to 1 pm
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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DORA of Stade
The DORA of Stade was built as a cargo ship in Itzehoe, launched in 1902 by the owner and skipper Dietrich Hinrich Beckmann from Uetersen who named the ship after his wife Dora.
With a load capacity of 65 tonnes, 19 metres long and 5 metres wide, the mizzen Ewer with two masts was originally used on the river Elbe to transport building materials, bricks and cement. Reinhard Nagel, a vintage car enthusiast from Stade, finally discovered and acquired the then derelict cargo ship in 1999 on Krautsand. For two years, it was extensively restored and rebuilt to be transformed into a small motorsailer in the style of the 1930s. With a new quarter deck, wooden wheelhouse, folding mast, 200 hp diesel engine with a gearbox and shaft system, 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 Stadthafen since 2002.
In keeping with the Hanseatic city, the ship combines maritime flair with regionality and hospitality. Originally built in Schleswig-Holstein, she returns home in order to ship freshly harvested cabbage fresh from a Dithmarscher vegetable farm from the Kollmar loading harbour to Stade at the height of the Dithmarscher Kohltage. After all, Dithmarschen is Europe’s largest cabbage-growing region.