Old Mill (Latrop)

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Old Mill
Pond in front of the mill
Entrance to the forest workers museum

The listed old mill is located in Latrop in the Schmallenberg urban area, directly on the river of the same name . There is a forest workers' museum in the former mill.

history

In 1737 the old mill was built as an iron hammer by the Grafschaft monastery . A Karl Halberstadt from Friesenhagen took over the Latrop estate with his hammer in 1804. Later the mill was used as a grain mill .

The basement of the mill is a listed building. The upper floor was renewed by the village community. A forest workers' museum has been located in the building since 2003.

museum

In the forest workers 'museum, historical tools, photos and documents are exhibited and the development of the place from a forest workers' village to today's holiday village is documented.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wilfried Reininghaus, Reinhard Köhne: Mining, Hütten- und Hammerwerke in the Duchy of Westphalia in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age , p. 375, Aschendorff, 2008, ISBN 978-3-402-15161-7
  2. ^ Hochsauerlandkreis.de: Waldarbeitermuseum Alte Mühle Latrop, accessed on July 23, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 42.31 "  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 33.2"  E