Schwerin grinding mill
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| place | Schleifmühlenweg 1, 19061 Schwerin 
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| opening | 1985 |
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City History and Museum Association Schwerin eV
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| management |
Waldemar Leide
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-838513 |
The Schwerin grinding mill is a grinding mill driven by an undershot water wheel for processing stones from the 18th century in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state capital Schwerin . After the business had stopped, the mill was expanded into a museum display facility in 1985 . The building is a technical cultural monument .
The grinding mill is located at the outflow of the Faulen See in the Ostorf district , near the palace gardens of Schwerin Palace . The water wheel uses the 0.5 meter dropping height between the water level of the Faulen and the Schweriner See . The former residence of the stone grinder, the Schleifmüllerhaus, belongs to the ensemble .
history
The mill was built as a Lohmühle around 1705 and was converted into a Graupenmühle in 1718 . After water damage, operations had to be stopped in 1737. In 1747 a new mill building was built, with the mill technology being expanded and a small stone grinding workshop set up. The complete conversion to a grinding mill took place in 1755. After the death of the grinding mill inspector Niedt, the court architect Georg Adolph Demmler took over the technical management of the facility in 1842. From 1845 to 1857 the mill carried out work on the conversion of the Schwerin Castle. In 1862 a wool spinning mill was set up. Due to dilapidation, production had been suspended since 1904. In the following years the building served as a warehouse, apartment and transformer station.
During the GDR era, the building was reconstructed between 1983 and 1985 and the historic stone processing technology was re-established. From then on, the watermill was open to visitors and was under the control of the Schwerin Historical Museum. In 1996 the city passed the museum into the sponsorship of the City History and Museum Association Schwerin eV . In 2000 the mill received a new water wheel with a diameter of about 4.5 meters. In the outdoor area, a stone frame saw from around 1920 was installed, which documents the technical development of this technology. Furthermore, special examples of historical stone processing were integrated into the outdoor area.
Today, from April to the beginning of November, historical stone processing techniques are shown, among other things the functional technique can be put into operation. There is also an exhibition on the history of the grinding mill and stone products. In the former Schleifmüllerhaus , photo exhibitions are shown , mostly on special occasions such as the German Milling Day .
literature
- Grewe, Klaus: The relief representation of an ancient stone saw machine from Hierapolis in Phrygia and its significance for the history of technology. International conference June 13-16, 2007 in Istanbul , in: Bachmann, Martin (Ed.): Construction technology in ancient and pre-ancient Asia Minor , Byzas, Vol. 9, Istanbul 2009, ISBN 978-975-807-223-1 , p 429-454
- Greetings from Schwerin Koehler & Amelang Berlin; Leipzig 1991 picture postcard collection around 1900 by Wolfgang Bollnow ed. Horst Ende Schwerin Schloßgarten, part at the grinding mill around 1910, ISBN 3-7-338-0068-0 , page 46/90
