Birkmühle
| Birkmühle
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 The Birkmühle in Oberoderwitz |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '11 " N , 14 ° 43' 17" E | |
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 Germany
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| Built | 1800 | |
| Shut down | 1974 | |
| Status | Use as a museum | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| Grinder | Sandstone millstones | |
| drive | Windmill | |
| Windmill type | Post mill | |
| Wing type | Venetian blinds | |
| Number of wings | 4th | |
| Tracking | Sterz | |
| Website | http://www.birkmuehle.de/ | |
The Birkmühle is one of three surviving post mills in Oderwitz . Today it is a popular destination, the mill was closed in 1974. It got its name from the birch that stands below the mill property.
history
According to the logging of a house, the mill was built around 1800 on the Burkersdorfer Sandberg . In 1817 it was moved with three horse-drawn carts to the intersection between Rittergutwirtschaftsweg and Mittelweg, where it still stands today. At the same time as the purchase of the corresponding piece of land from the property of the manor , the associated house was built.
In 1856, the then mill owner Karl Ernst Rönsch received the right to use the house as an inn. A bakery was also operated in this until 1953. Mill operation using wind power was maintained until 1956, although an electric drive was already in place from 1946. The last commercial use as a flour mill was in 1974 by the last Oderwitz windmill master, Ehrenfried Rönsch.
In 1991 the Birkmühle, together with the Berndtmühle and the Neumannmühle, was awarded the Europa Nostra Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of preserving cultural heritage. However, in 1997 a hurricane devastated the mill. As a result, the Birkmühlverein was founded in 1998 , the aim of which is to preserve the Birkmühle. In 1999 the new wing cross was inaugurated.
Today there is a museum inside the mill, the house is still used as an inn. It is also possible to get married in the mill, as it has been appointed an official branch of the registry office in Oderwitz.
construction
The trestle on which the mill house is stored was encased, a special feature of the Upper Lusatian post mills. With the star on the back, the so-called moon side, a single person can turn the mill on their trestle in the direction of the wind.
The granary of the Birkmühle offered space for around 20 tons of grain, mostly rye . The average milling capacity was around 500 kilograms of grain per day.
Another special feature of the mill is an elevator and a living room for the miller (Feiste) on the top floor. The wing cross of the mill has a diameter of 18 meters, the absorbed wind energy can be controlled by louvre flap blades.
literature
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971, p. 39f.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipal administration Oderwitz: Mills. Retrieved April 18, 2010 .
- ↑ Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk: Every mill has its special story. (No longer available online.) June 1, 2009, archived from the original on June 8, 2009 ; accessed on October 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Gerald Rönsch: Structure of the birch mill. Retrieved April 18, 2010 .
Watermills: Bertholdmühle | Lower mill windmills: Berndtmühle | Birkmühle | Neumannmühle