Alteburg mill
The Alteburger Mühle is a former windmill in the Marienburg district of Cologne , which was built at the end of the 18th century on the foundations of a medieval tower in the area of the Roman Naval Fort Alteburg . It has been extended several times with extensions and is now the seat of the trade department of the Polish Consulate General in Cologne . The mill is the oldest surviving structure Marie Burg's and stands as a monument under conservation .
location
The former mill is located in the far northeast of the Marienburg district on the street An der Alteburger Mühle (house number 6), just under 100 m west of the banks of the Rhine (Oberländer Ufer).
history
The origin of the mill is in all probability a round tower with heavy, mixed masonry made of basalt lava and other types of stone. It was mentioned in 1209 together with a neighboring chapel in the area of the former Roman naval fort Alteburg, which at the time was owned by the St. Severin Abbey . The construction period can be the 12./13. Assume that the tower was built in the 19th century, as the tower's wall technology was similar to that of the Cologne city wall at the same time. Listed as "Aldeburch" from the 14th century onwards, this castle complex was possibly demolished in 1474 during the Cologne collegiate feud . On the remains of the Tower of Cologne businessman Johann Wilhelm Huybens was probably a few years after 1782 on the site of a 20 acre extensive English garden had to create a Dutch windmill in the variant of a gallery Dutchman build. The medieval tower stump was bricked up, above which the gallery was rebuilt in brick and a three-storey mill tower tapering towards the top with a hood for the mill wings was placed on top of it. The building material for the tower was also brick, while sandstone was used to frame the walls .
The Alteburger Mühle was part of the “Gut Alte Burg”, which, according to a purchase agreement from 1813, also consisted of a residential house ( manor house ), farm buildings , a garden and farmland . From 1835, under the new owner Ludwig Böcking, it was used as a bone tamper for a lime and bone distillery . In 1858 the mill was partially destroyed by fire. From the property of the real estate agent Paul Joseph Hagen it passed to the Bayenthaler Kölnische Maschinenbau-AG, which shortly after 1870 had employees and director's houses built on the property after the demolition of the manor house and set up a restaurant in the mill. The gallery was converted into a viewing balcony and made accessible using a wide staircase; a newly created veranda has since separated the building from a neighboring brewery. The restaurant ceased operations by the First World War at the latest , after which the mill served various purposes and tenants. Around 1930, on the initiative of Georg Falck, a retaining wall was built along the street An der Alteburger Mühle . During the Second World War , the mill tower burned down, but was subsequently restored and the mill was extended by an extension to the residential building in 1950/51, exposing the medieval foundations according to plans by the Westdeutsche Kaufhof AG building center, whereby the gallery was also discontinued.
In 1977 the office of the trade council of the Marienburg-based embassy of the People's Republic of Poland at the seat of government in Bonn took up its seat in the Alteburger Mühle . For the new use, the Alteburger Mühle was expanded in 1977/78 based on a design by the architects Helmut Plück and Manfred Walther, so that a one to five-storey building ensemble was created with the mill tower as the core. After the Polish embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 when the seat of government was relocated and the branch office of the embassy, which initially remained in Cologne, was converted into a consulate general in 2001, the office of the commercial council in the Alteburger Mühle remained as the commercial department of the consulate general. This operates today under the name of Department for Trade and Investments . The former mill itself is used on the ground floor as the entrance area of the consulate and in the area of the round tower as a reception and office space. In 2014, the Marienburger Matineen concert series organized by the Consulate General took place in the premises for the first time . Since the move of the Consulate General within Cologne from Villa Lindenallee 7 to MediaPark (2013), the Alteburger Mühle is the only remaining location of a foreign representation in Marienburg.
The Alteburger Mühle was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Cologne on December 20, 1983.
literature
- Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 1, pp. XV / XVII, 57–60.
- Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7616-2012-0 , p. 10.
- Susanne Sommer: Mills on the Lower Rhine. The wind and water mills of the left Lower Rhine in the age of industrialization , Cologne 1991, ISBN 978-3-7927-1113-2 , p. 300.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Cologne, number A 1935
- ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development.
- ↑ a b c Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb.
- ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of June 1977, October 1977)
- ↑ Text of the protection of the city conservator of Cologne for the residential building (formerly windmill) at the Alteburger Mühle 6
- ↑ Grinding plant mostly used as a restaurant , Kölnische Rundschau , January 12, 2012
- ↑ Marienburger Matineen , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , July 11, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 6 ° 58 ′ 39.7 ″ E