Aspermühle

Aspermühle
Mill building with wheel house
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 42 '24 "  N , 6 ° 7' 42"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 42 '24 "  N , 6 ° 7' 42"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Kleve district City of Goch
Waters	Niers
Built	before 1301
Shut down	1959
technology
use	Oil , saw and flour mill
Grinder	2 grinding courses 2 oil presses
drive	Watermill
water wheel	undershot

The Aspermühle was a watermill located on the Niers in the city of Goch with an undershot water wheel .

geography

The Aspermühle was located on the right side of the Niers, Triftstraße 264, in the Asperden district, in the town of Goch, Kleve district , in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Bimmen mill was located above , the Viller mill below .

The Niers has a height of approx. 15 m above sea ​​level . The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the Niersverband , which is based in Viersen .

history

In a document dated May 18, 1301, Count Rainald I (Geldern) donated the water mill on the Niers River in Asper to the Cistercian women from the Graefenthal monastery . In return, the Count's House was given a Holy Mass every day . The abbot leased the mill to the v. Family. Wachtendonk, which she in turn had a head miller run.

When the mill burned down in 1595, it was the wealthy builder Hendrick of Beloe , the son of the upper miller in annual lease awarded. The descendants of Hendricks called themselves von de Loe and from around 1800 van de Loo . During the secularization , the van de Loo owned the mill in 1805 and rebuilt it. From 1864 on, a second water wheel, a gang saw and an oil press were used in addition to the grain mill . With the river straightening and the removal of the dams in 1932, the mill was converted to steam and electric drive. A fire in 1959 put an end to the milling trade at Aspermühle.

In the following years, various companies settled in the Asperdener Mühle, including a cocoa dealer and a publishing house . After that, the building stood empty for a few years.

Since the end of 2009 there has been a lot of activity in the former mill building in Asperden, because naturwaren-Niederrhein GmbH has settled here and trades in beekeeping and natural products.

Front view of the former mill in Asperden with wheel house and hall

Since then, extensive restoration work has been carried out, including a. the roof structure and roofing was renewed and the old wheel house and warehouse shine again in their old splendor.

gallery

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  Van de Loo name tag, Aspermühle

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  Former wheel house

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  Outbuilding of the Aspermühle

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  Kidney course

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  Aspermühle on the new record in 1892

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  Aspermühle on the original cadastral map 1843

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  Aspermühle on the Tranchot map 1802

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literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 .
• Susanne Sommer: Mills on the Lower Rhine . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1113-3 .

Web links

Commons : Aspermühle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the city of Goch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.niersverband.de/