Nesting mill

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The nesting mill
Nistermühle, aerial photo (2016)

The Nistermühle is a former water mill in the Nister Valley north of the town of Hachenburg in the Westerwald , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The Nistermühle is located between Hachenburg , the municipality of Nister and the Cistercian monastery Marienstatt , which is two kilometers downstream from the Nister . The historic mill trail through Kroppacher Schweiz and the long-distance hiking trail Westerwaldsteig lead past the Nistermühle .

history

The nesting mill was first mentioned in a document in 1234 in connection with a donation from Count Heinrich III. von Sayn and his wife Mechthild von Landsberg in the form of 20 Malter Weizen annually to the Marienstatt monastery.

The Nistermühle was a stately ban mill and the towns of Altstadt , Hachenburg, Müschenbach and Nister were banned from it . There were three more ban mills in the Saynian territory, but only the nest mill was allowed to produce bagged flour. Everyone else was only allowed to grind the grain . After the death of Heinrich III. the heirs, Count Johann von Sponheim and his son Gottfried von Sayn, renewed the donation of 20 Malter wheat to the Marienstatt monastery in 1255. Under Count Johann II von Sayn-Sayn, debts to the Marienstatt monastery had accumulated so much that in 1298 the Nistermühle was transferred to the monastery for use until the debts were repaid.

In 1481, the Count von Sayn sent another pitch to the Marienstatt monastery. Count Gerhard II von Sayn-Sayn assigned the monastery six Malter wheat annually.

The right to this donation had the monastery then first in 1738 against the Müller Johann Henrich from the Nistermühle and later in 1749 in front of the Imperial Courts have against the then owner of the Nistermühle Georg Friedrich Burggraf von Kirchberg, Graf von Sayn-Hachenburg, sue.

Konrad Adenauer memorial plaque on the nesting mill

Since the mills in the county were technically obsolete towards the end of the 18th century and the millers had difficulties with the production of white and pulp flour, Johann August Burggraf von Kirchberg , the last count of the county of Sayn-Hachenburg to rule from Hachenburg, brought the Mill builder Georg Streubner from Thuringia. The count took the nesting mill under direct management and then entrusted Georg Streuber with the management of the mill instead of a tenant.

In the 19th century, a Schütz family put the millers on the Nistermühle, first as tenants and later as owners. Gustav Schütz fought 1868–1873 in a trial against the tax authorities for recognition of a claim for compensation for the repealed ban rights. From 1873 the nesting mill was privately owned.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the nesting mill changed hands. After he inherited the mill in 1893, Wilhelm Schütz sold it to Josef Roedig in 1902. Eleven years later, on March 31, 1913, the nesting mill burned down almost completely. Josef Roedig rebuilt the mill in the same year. In this context, the mill received water power and electricity as well as state-of-the-art machinery.

In September 1944, the Roedig family hid Konrad Adenauer , who later became the first Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany , from the Gestapo . The Roedig family was friends with the Adenauers and Josef Roedig was, like Adenauer, a member of the Center Party . Adenauer lived there under the code name Dr. Weber until he was arrested by the Gestapo on September 25, 1944. A memorial plaque attached to the nesting mill in 1976 commemorates this event.

In 1960 the Victor family bought the Nistermühle from Maria Bonacker Dreislar. Under Roswita and Otto Victor, the nesting mill was then converted into a farm. The lands belonging to the mill were expanded and the livestock increased. In addition, a riding company was established on the Nistermühle, which is also the seat of the Reit-, Fahr- und Zuchtverein Hachenburg e. V. is.

Today's operation

The mill operation was stopped in the 1950s and the mill wing of the nesting mill was converted into a residential building. The water rights that have existed since at least 1234 will continue to be used. The nesting mill is supplied with electricity by a small hydropower system and excess electricity is fed into the grid. The water power consists of a Francis turbine that was renewed in 1976 and an asynchronous generator that replaced a synchronous generator in 1961 .

literature

  • Daniel Schneider: The mill trade in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 59 (2016), pp. 219–237 (with a presentation of the history of the mill development in the entire county of Sayn).
  • Bruno M. Struif, Rebekka Victor: 777 years of Nistermühle 1234–2011 . GeschichtsWerkstatt Hachenburg Publications Volume 3, Hachenburg 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Department 74, Number 19.
  2. ↑ On the development of the mills in the county of Sayn up to the division of the country cf. Daniel Schneider: The milling industry in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 59 (2015), pp. 219–224.
  3. ↑ Dieter Trautmann: Watermills in Kroppacher Switzerland: Today there is no rattling at the "rushing brook". In: Wäller Heimat - Heimatbuch des Westerwaldkreis born in 1987.
  4. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Department 74, Number 33.
  5. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Department 74, Number 148.
  6. ^ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, department 74, number 878.
  7. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Department 342, Number 1123.
  8. ^ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Department 1, Number 1082.
  9. ↑ Josef Kläser: Mühlenreiches Hirtscheid: Small place with a long mill tradition. In: Wäller Heimat - Heimatbuch des Westerwaldkreis born in 2002.
  10. ^ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Department 405, Numbers 833 and 834.
  11. ↑ Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, inventory 510,023 (domain recipe (recipe) Hachenburg), number 96.
  12. ↑ Joseph buses: The Nistermühle in Hachenburg. In: Anniversary edition 80 years of the Westerwälder Zeitung 1848–1928.
  13. ↑ Speech by Maria Bonacker Dreislar occasion of the inauguration of the Konrad-Adenauer-memorial on the Nistermühle in Hachenburg on January 17, 1976 ( Memento of 28 November 2010 at the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 7.6 MB).
  14. ↑ Bruno M. Struif In: Hachenburg - Time Traces of a Westerwald residence town.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 27.7 "  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 6.3"  E