Aumühle (Moers)

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Aumühle

Aumühle on the renatured Moersbach (2016)

Aumühle on the renatured Moersbach (2016)

Location and history
Aumühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Aumühle
Coordinates 51 ° 26 '34 "  N , 6 ° 36' 47"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '34 "  N , 6 ° 36' 47"  E
Location
Waters Moersbach
Built 1608-1609
Shut down commercially by 1828 at the latest
technology
use Flour mill
drive Watermill
Website www.aumuehle-moers.de

The Aumühle , also called Obere Wassermühle , is a listed watermill in Moers , North Rhine-Westphalia . The oldest part of the mill building was built at the beginning of the 17th century and is one of the oldest preserved structures in the city, in which it is also the only preserved mill.

history

The forerunner of the Upper Watermill was a lock system that regulated the water supply to the city moat. It was an important part of the city fortifications, as the dammed up water flooded the otherwise dry moat, including the adjacent fields, and thus protected the city center from enemies, which was necessary during the Thirty Years War , for example .

The watermill in Moers was first mentioned in writing as Vol mull , today to be called “ Fulling Mill ”, in 1591 on the map of Murs Comitatus by the geographer Johannes Mercator. It was one of many mills in today's urban area of ​​Moers, but not all of them can be proven. They were very important for the Counts of Moers , as they both provided important energy and brought in taxes. The volume mull , popularly Aumühle called, formed as an upper water mill in the north of Moers stream along with the city windmill, a wooden windmill which in 1583 came to Moers and formed the northern corner of the city wall at Kirchtor, the mortar mill Regulations of 1612. The thirlage saw proposed that the farms in the area, despite complications and protests, were not allowed to use hand mills to grind their bread, but had to go to one of the specific forced mills, which also included the Upper Watermill.

The mill building, which has been preserved to this day, was built between 1608 and 1609. In 1669 it was restored under Geurt ter Mitz, who leased both this and the lower watermill, which was located southwest of the Moersbach. In 1799 it suffered severe damage from a flood, and between 1804 and 1805 it was rebuilt. As a long-term lease mill from Hüls, the mill was sold to a miller in 1818. In 1828 it was acquired by Moerser Mühlengesellschaft, which it no longer put into operation. Around 1840 the Aumühle fell into disrepair and was cleared out by one of its many owners. At that time she owned an undershot water wheel about ten meters long and six and a half meters wide.

The mill building was expanded in 1860 by the farmer Henrich Parsick to include a stable to the south. In 1907 the mill became the property of the city of Moers and was inhabited until the 1950s. From 1979 to 1981 she redeveloped the city as an "attraction" of the castle and leisure park , adding an extension to the stable building facing Moersbach. The grinder and the undershot mill wheel, which had been taken over from the demolished Beskesmühle in Niep , were integrated into or on this extension . In 1982 the Aumühle was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Moers as a monument with the number 16. In the following years there were repeated problems with the mill wheels: In 1984 the wheel from Niep had to be renovated again, in 1988 it was destroyed by pests. In 1991 it was removed and replaced by a new waterwheel installed in 1992, which also had to be repaired in 1998. The cost of all these complications was around DM 100,000 .

In 1995 her ownership changed to a private owner who used the Aumühle as a home and studio until her death in 2005. In December 2006, SCI: Moers acquired the watermill and began extensive restoration work in 2007, which cost around 500,000 euros. The grinding chamber was increased, the entire system was renovated, the exterior of the building was redesigned and a new water wheel manufactured by SCI itself was added. In December 2011 the work was completed and the new mill inaugurated. The oldest part, the mill building, is now used as a residential building. In the former stable there is a studio, and in the annex there is the functional grinder, with which bread is regularly produced. However, the water wheel is not functional, as it is only attached to the mill pond , which corresponds to the old course of the Moersbach, but not the current one. As of 2014, the small river was reconnected to the pond and thus also to the mill wheel as part of its renaturation .

  • Photo from 1894

  • Condition in 2005, before renovation and remodeling

  • Detailed map of the mill (status 2012)

  • Street Side (2012)

  • Aumühle (2016)

literature

  • Stefan Brunn: Aumühle kissed awake . In: Moers month 01/2012 . Moers January 2012, p. 18-22 ( PDF ).
  • Thomas P. Becker: Economic life - 2. The mills . In: Margret Wensky (ed.): Moers: From the early days to the end of the Orange period (until 1702) . 1st volume. Böhlau Verlag , Cologne - Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-412-04600-0 , pp. 244-247 .

Web links

Commons : Aumühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edgar Schmitz: The upper watermill at Venloer Strasse 40 in Moers. (PDF; 9.5 MB) City of Moers, 2011, p. 17 , accessed on October 7, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b Thomas P. Becker, p. 245 ( see literature ) .
  3. ↑ Thomas P. Becker, p. 244 ( see literature ) .
  4. ↑ Thomas P. Becker, p. 246 ( see literature ) .
  5. ^ Klaus Müller: V. Economy and traffic - 2. Crafts and guilds . In: Margret Wensky (Ed.): Moers: From the early days to the end of the Orange period (from 1702) . 2nd volume. Böhlau Verlag , Cologne - Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-412-04600-0 , pp. 100 .
  6. ↑ a b Edgar Schmitz: The upper watermill at Venloer Strasse 40 in Moers. (PDF; 9.5 MB) City of Moers, 2011, p. 1 , accessed on July 26, 2012 .
  7. ↑ a b Mill in Moers Castle Park. Route of Industrial Culture , accessed July 29, 2012 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Edgar Schmitz: The upper watermill at Venloer Strasse 40 in Moers. (PDF; 9.5 MB) City of Moers, 2011, p. 2 , accessed on October 7, 2012 .
  9. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Moers - architectural monuments. (No longer available online.) City of Moers, July 18, 2012, p. 13 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 29, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.moers.de  
  10. ^ Christian Schroeder: Water only flows in 2013. Rheinische Post , December 2, 2011, accessed on October 7, 2012 .