Adam Mill

Part of the Adam mill in Würselen

Location and history

Coordinates

50 ° 49 '10 " N , 6 ° 6' 16" E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '10 " N , 6 ° 6' 16" E

Location

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

City region Aachen

Würselen

Waters

worm

Built

after 1456

Shut down

around 1900

technology

use

Oil u. Grinding mill

Grinder

2 grinding courses

drive

Watermill

water wheel

2 undershot iron water wheels

The Adam Mill was a watermill on the Wurm . Today it belongs to the city of Würselen in the North Rhine-Westphalian city region of Aachen in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The Adamsmühle was located on the Wurm (today: Adamsmühle 1, City of Würselen). The mill building on the Wurm from the time between 1725 and 1750 is at a height of approx. 136 m above sea level . Above the Adamsmühle are the buildings of the Wolfsfurt mills , below was the Teutermühle with its pump system ("pump art") .

Waters

The worm supplied numerous mills with water over a river length of 53 km. The source of the worm is south of Aachen at 265 m above sea level, the confluence with the Rur is near the village of Kempen in the city of Heinsberg at 32 m above sea level. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of 355.518 km ² .

history

The first mention of the mill comes from the first archived fief register in Aachen from 1456. At that time it was named Neue Mühle . With a share transfer in 1618, Hein Adams and his family became the owners of the grinding and oil mill ; The current name of the facility comes from him. The current mill building dates from 1725 to 1750. The mill worked until around 1900 and was last operated by two undershot iron water wheels .

Two other mills are known from the area around the Adamsmühle, which are mentioned in a transfer by the Kirchmeister von Würselen in 1482: The Kalenmühle near Schweilbach was named until 1665, the Klantenmühle near Scherberg until 1558.