Alfers Mill
Alfers Mühle (also Alfersmühle ) is a dam and a former water mill on the Berkel in the north of the city of Gescher . The location of the mill corresponds roughly to the center of the former Harwick farmers in Gescher and the transport connections were favorable for the time with the location near the main road to Ahaus , Stadtlohn and Coesfeld .
history
The oldest verifiable commercial enterprise in Harwick is the former double mill system with a dam at Schulze Alfer (today Schulze Ising). In the area of the city Gescher has Berkel a relatively steep slope, which was also the reason for Mertyn of Bermtfelde, at this point in the 14th century a dam to build and hydropower use for a mill.
The ownership of the mill has changed several times over the years. It was first sold to the knight Heinrich von Gemen in 1392 . In 1659 the mill belonged to Schulte Alfferdingh Gronowich, from 1768 to the Count of Styrum . In 1858 the widow Anna Gertrud Schulze Alfers acquired the oil, grain and sawmill from Count Landsberg-Velen , which gave the mill its current name and has been owned by the Schulze Alfers family (today Schulze Ising) ever since.
In the front part of the building stood the grain and oil mill, on the western side of the Berkel the sawmill, which was driven out of the mill with a cross-connecting shaft via the Berkel. In 1924, two turbines with a total output of 24 kWh were installed in the front of the mill to generate electricity and were in operation until 1954. The mill operation was stopped in 1970 and the grain mill room was then converted for residential purposes.
In 1980 the city of Gescher took over the weir and converted it into an overflow weir.
Web links
- Compromise for nature and technology. Allgemeine Zeitung, in: azonline.de, May 29, 2011
- Construction of a hydropower plant and production of a fish ladder at the Berkel in Gescher an der Alfersmühle, presentation by the applicant . Project presentation with application to the district; Meeting on September 2, 2009