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History

The Oberländer schiff is an example of a very common shiptype on the Rhine from neolithicum untill maybe the 18th century.

Oberländer schiff
The wreck in 1973.
Oberländer schiff
Impression.

Description

Oberländer (Rhine) river boat has flat bottom keel (four planks) with lashed boards consisting of two halfs of a dugout tree. The tradition is very old and comes from the dugout boat tradition.
These boats were used for fishing and transport on calmer bodies of water.
Length: 5.90 m.
Wide: 2.00 m.
photo of a wooden bottom of a ship on land, with people around it
Keel of the Oberländer schiff.
tub, trough or gutter, possibly made of metal or plastic
3D reconstruction.
a series of sketches showing the process of hollowing out a tree trunk to possibly make some sort of trough, gutter or canoe
Building an Oberländer.
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