Every new ship built at the Meyer Werft shipyard started here.

Where you can now indulge in delicious specialities from our kitchen was once the so-called "Schnürboden". Every new ship built at the Meyer Werft shipyard started here. All the individual parts of a planned ship had to be drawn in original size. Because they originally measured and drew with strings, the name "lacing floor" came into being.

Then the malls were created, which are templates or models made of wood or sheet iron. They served as templates for the final dressings. The name Mallen comes from the Middle High German "mal", which means shape or marking. That is why the huge lacing floor was also called mall floor. Great skill and a lot of experience were needed to make these malls, because the usually curved or sinuous surfaces of the bracing and the outer skin of a ship had to be preconstructed true to the original.

The workpieces themselves were then cut, bent, forged or carpentered in the shipbuilding hall according to the models. Today, part of this complicated work has shifted to the designers' offices. With the help of computers, thousands of individual plans and drawings are created there for each new ship, which are then transferred directly onto steel plates using an optical marking process