Old grain mill Ramsbeck

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The old grain mill Ramsbeck

The Alte Kornmühle Ramsbeck is a 400 year old watermill in the Ramsbeck district of the municipality of Bestwig in the Sauerland. It is operated as a foam mill by the “Alte Kornmühle Ramsbeck eV” association and can be booked for guided tours.

The mill is a two-storey building made of greywacke with a half-timbered gable made of brick and, in addition to the workroom, contains the rooms of the old miller's apartment and the attic under the roof.

On the north side, the passages for the three separate mill wheels are made in the foundation wall.

Overshot wood mill wheel 2014

technology

As the only remaining mill in North Rhine-Westphalia, the mill originally had three grinding stands and a medieval technique. The mill wheels are overshot systems that are supplied by the mill ditch, which is fed from the Valme 400 meters in front of the mill . Each grinder is driven directly by a mill wheel. Originally, no transmissions or other transmissions were used.

The unrestored part of the wooden interior construction dates from 1810, the grinding stands from the 1860s. At the beginning of the 19th century, the middle grinding stand was removed and the water wheel was used to generate electricity. According to tradition, several surrounding farms were supplied with electricity from this. After 1946 a transmission was installed for the first time, which was also driven by the first mill wheel. This shaft extends through the wall on the front and ends in an iron cogwheel that was used to temporarily operate a sawmill in front of the mill after the Second World War.

In the interior, the transmission has a flywheel with which the threshing room was operated, which was temporarily located in the room above.

Grinding stand after the restoration in 2014 - an old vat in the foreground

history

The mill is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1603:

"Caspar Ovelacker zu Gevelinghausen, Maria née zu Erwitte, widow Johan Ovelackers, mother and son, sell Hans in the Oelinghof zu Ramsbeck an annual pension of one (em) gold guilders, which he has to pay from the mill in Ramsbeck, (seen) before." Judge Matheus Hoyinck zu Brilon in the presence of Tonniges Göck (ler) zu Ramsbeck and Henrich Welters zu Heringhausen, 1603 on St. Stephen's Day (= 26.12.1603) on paper by Henrich Knipschild, notary and judge zu Bödefeld 1659. "

Then it is mentioned in 1685 in a treasure list of the Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich: "The minstrel (a kötter whose real name is not mentioned)" needs the Zimmerwerck, lives in the mill in the village, but still has a house. "

Another tax list from the year 1717 (State Archives of the Duchy of Westphalia IV A No. 6, State Archives Münster) shows that the full-span farmer Jobst Nölleke, known as Hüttemann, owns a hereditary mill in Ramsbeck. According to oral tradition, he received the mill from the elector during his stay in Ramsbeck in exchange for a colony of bees. More than a hundred years later, the mill is still in operation.

In the chronicle of pastor Milianus Eifler (parish Velmede) from 1823, Ramsbeck u. a. reports: "There is also a grinding and oil mill that peculiarly belongs to the Hüttemann."

Renovations and repairs took place in 1810 and 1860, among other things, as was determined from wood samples. The last receipts (including for sacks of grain) date back to 1956. In contrast to many other old mills, the building was only shut down and not gutted.

First phase of the restoration

With the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection and the NRW Foundation , the first phase of the restoration of the mill could begin in 2014. It was found that the roof joist under the cladding was dilapidated and had to be replaced at great expense to secure the building. After that, the wooden interior could be overhauled and supplemented and a new grinding stand including an overshot wooden wheel was made and installed.

On May 10, 2014 at 11 a.m., the mill was re-blessed by Pastor Günther Eikelmann and Pastor Dirk Schmäring in the presence of Mayor Ralf Péus and Landtag Vice President Eckhard Uhlenberg , who is also a board member of the NRW Foundation.

Second construction phase (planned)

The next construction phase is planned for 2020 to add the two missing mill wheels, so that the mill wheel system is complete for the first time since the time before the Second World War.

Here the opportunity should be used to represent the three different types of overshot mill wheels (wood, metal and wood with metal) in the ensemble.

This then enables the new mill wheels to either be completed with grinding stands or to be used to generate green electricity by adding generators.

Furthermore, a barrier-free sanitary facility will be set up in the neighboring stable .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 23.4 "  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 9.9"  E