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Werner Böcking: Von Köln zum Meer – Lioness at Large

Werner Böcking: Von Köln zum Meer

Von Köln zum Meer: Schifffahrt auf dem Niederrhein - Werner Böcking

Local history, a read inspired by conversations with a visiting friend on the history of shipping and travel by boat on the Rhine. — A richly illustrated book focusing chiefly on the 19th and 20th centuries, and the mid-19th-centuriy changes brought about by diesel engines and the resulting disappearance of sailing vessels (which, before the advent of engines, were pulled by horses when going up the river, against the current): undoubtedly the biggest change not only in land but also in river travel and transportation, with a profound effect on large sectors of the economy of the adjoining regions and communities.

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