Aldenhover Mill

Aldenhover Mill
Street view of the Aldenhover mill
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 4 '8 "  N , 6 ° 5' 12"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 4 '8 "  N , 6 ° 5' 12"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Heinsberg Heinsberg
Waters	Worm , boy worm
Built	before 1170
Shut down	around 1985
technology
use	Oil and grinder mill
Grinder	1 grind 1 oil press
drive	1 water wheel from 1925 diesel and electric motor
water wheel	undershot

The Aldenhover Mühle was a watermill on the Liecker Bach, later on the Junge Wurm, in the town of Heinsberg in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The Aldenhover mill had its location on Liecker Bach, 1725 at the boys worm in the district Lieck , in the town of Heinsberg. The property on which the mill building still stands is approx. 37 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Junge Wurm was a body of water that ran more or less parallel to the Wurm . The junction from the Wurm was in Nirm, a district of the city of Geilenkirchen . Here the worm has a height of 54 m above sea level. The river Junge Wurm, also known as the Kleine Wurm , flowed in a north-northwest direction via Randerath , Horst , Porselen , Dremmen , Grebben , Heinsberg , Kempen and Karken across the German - Dutch border towards Vlodrop and empties at an altitude of 29 m above sea level on Dutch territory into the Rur . The Junge Wurm was connected to the Heinsberg moat , the mill canal, the Liecker brook and the mill brook . This composite body of water served for surface drainage and the benefit of the people. For centuries there were around 15 water mills on the Junge Wurm, with a slope of 26 m between Randerath and Karken. With the worm straightening in the 1960s and 1970s, the young worm disappeared from the maps . Instead, drainage channels and trenches were created. 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 Aldenhover Mühle is the oldest stately mill in the Heinsberger Land. It was mentioned in a document in 1170 , when the Archbishop of Cologne, Philipp I von Heinsberg, made a donation of seven Malter rye from the income of the Aldenhover mill to ring the bells of St. Gangolf. The mill had the mill compulsion for Kirchhoven , and parts of Aphoven and Laffeld . The convent of the Congregation of Norbertine from Heinsberg moved the oil mill of Hommerschen to Aldenhoven to be able to make best use of them. Since the Liecker Bach seemed overwhelmed by this, the oil mill was moved back to Hommerschen in 1608. In 1725 the mill was rebuilt due to lack of water . The Heinsberger Mühlenkanal (Junge Wurm), which flowed on the other side of the mill, was placed next to the mill. He now took over the water supply . In 1806, in the course of secularization , the mill was sold to Mr. Minett from Liège for CHF 12,000 . In 1926 the company switched from water power to diesel engines and a little later to electric motors . In 1985 the mill was decommissioned after more than 800 years.

gallery

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  Aldenhover Mühle as Liecker Mühle on the first recording from 1843

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  Aldenhover mill on the new record from 1893

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  Aldenhover Mühle as Liecker Mühle on the Tranchot map 1806/1807

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide . 2nd edition, Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 313-315.
• Hubert Berens: The Aldenhover Mühle to leak . Home calendar of the district of Heinsberg, 1981, pp. 39–44.

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

Commons : Aldenhover Mühle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the city of Heinsberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://www.wver.de/