Restaurant Schnürboden

This place where you can now order delicious specialities from the kitchen and wine cellar, used to be known simply as the Schnürboden, or drawing floor. Every new Meyer Werft ship construction project started here. All of the ship's parts of a planned ship had to be drawn up in its original size. Since they used to measure everything up and draw it using string, the hall was given the name – drawing floor, or Schnürboden.

After that, they made the models or templates for the ship's hull from wood or iron sheet. They served as the basis of the final structure. It took a wealth of ability and experience to make these models, as the mostly curved or twisted surfaces of the structure members and outer shell of the hull had to be assembled in advance exactly as they would be in the finished ship. The working pieces were then cut out, bent, cast, wrought or otherwise crafted in the shipbuilding hall using the model as a basis. Today, some of this complicated work has moved into the offices of construction engineers. With the help of computers, thousands of individual plans and drawings are created for the ship's design, which are then transferred directly onto the steel sheets using an optical tracing technique.