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View from the south (state 1985)

The Austermühle is a mill building built around 1300 in Warburg , Kuhlemühler Weg 8. It was included in the monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2015 . A protection by entry in the Warburg monument list is still pending.

history

In 1262 the Paderborn bishop Simon I, as sovereign of Warburg, had a 1.5 km long mill ditch ("exterior aquaeductus") dug off the Diemel , which runs from the confluence of the Twiste in the west on the north side of the Diemel valley directly in front of the old town of Warburg along to the Diemeleinmuzzle of the Siekbach in the east.

Since the citizens of the old town felt damaged by the construction of the mill ditch, they initially received a pension from the adjacent gardens and later transferred the gardens themselves. In addition, on February 28, 1297 they were given a building site for a water mill at the end of the mill ditch "at the stone pit next to the outer Diemel weir" including mill rights. The mill was completed as early as 1304 and was called " Untermühle" , later also "Austermühle" (eastern mill).

Inscription tablet from 1557

In 1557 the still municipal mill was repaired, as evidenced by a 0.97 × 0.5 m sandstone plaque on the building. It bears the municipal coat of arms with the Warburg lily and the inscription:

"REPARATA ANNO DM 1557 AUGUST 12th"

In 1813 the mill was mentioned in the "Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia " .

At the beginning of the 19th century, the mill was rebuilt and provided with new half-timbered gables. At the time, the property, still called Untermühle, belonged to a family Austermühl , who used it as an “ Öhlmühle ” and “ Flax and Gypsum Bockemill” and offered it for lease on June 4, 1840. On May 26, 1885, the mill building burned down, the arsonist, a Mr. Pieper from Engar, was caught and sentenced to four years in prison. The following year the mill burned again as a result of negligence during the reconstruction. Later it came into the ownership of the Warburg sugar factory founded in 1892 , which it served to generate electricity, and was supplemented by brick extensions.

After the July floods in 1965 , the city of Warburg had the mill ditch filled in in 1966, so that it could no longer be used as a mill. In 1986 the city of Warburg bought the mill back and, after several years of vacancy, used it as an emergency shelter for the homeless . In 1987 Elmar Nolte and students from the University of Kassel carried out a survey with a historical study . After that, some maintenance work was carried out, including a complete roof renovation with red clay tiles. In 2015 there were two apartment fires in the building, which is still inhabited by homeless people and asylum seekers. Then the house was evacuated.

In July 2017, the city had the northern brick extensions demolished at its own expense (approx. € 60,000), the listed medieval part, which was only of limited use due to its thick walls, remained. This found criticism because the house had not previously been advertised for sale and in a sale with renovation obligations for apartments, the city would have had lower costs and would have paid an amount for the construction of rental apartments .

building

The almost completely preserved medieval building stock of the mill includes a three-storey building 16.3 m long and 13.77 m wide. It is made of massive limestone with a strong corner cuboid. The wall thickness on the ground floor is 2.05 m. The two eaves walls and the north gable are solidly built up to the roof. The south gable facing the Mühlgraben has always been half-timbered from the second floor. The mill wheel was also located there. Some of the original Gothic rectangular windows measuring 0.75 m × 0.5 m and bevelled stone reveals have been preserved in the façades, which were later changed by window and door openings .

The brick additions date from around 1900 and 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Hoppe: On the early history of the city of Warburg , unpublished. Seminar paper, Marburg 1973, p. 23
  2. ↑ Georg Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia , Braunschweig 1813
  3. ^ Advertisement in the Warburger Kreisblatt, volume 2, no.23, dated Saturday, June 6, 1840
  4. ^ Fritz Quick: Chronicle of the City of Warburg 1880-1919 , in: Walter Strümper : Die Chroniken der Stadt Warburg, Warburg 2002, p. 175f
  5. ↑ Plans in the Elmar Nolte private archive, Erfurt
  6. ↑ Dieter Scholz: The homeless shelter is being demolished, only the old mill remains in: Neue Westfälische , Warburg, July 10, 2017
  7. ^ Letter from Elmar Nolte to the city of Warburg, StA, Warburg, July 12, 2017

literature

  • Elmar Nolte: On the secular building of the medieval city of Warburg. In: Franz Mürmann (ed.): The city of Warburg. 1036-1986. Contributions to the history of a city. Volume 2. Hermes, Warburg 1986, ISBN 3-922032-07-9 , p. 165.
  • Nikolaus Rodenkirchen: Architectural and Art Monuments of Westphalia, Vol. 44, Warburg Aschendorff District , Münster 1939.
  • Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Hanseatic City of Warburg (Hrsg.): City of Warburg (=  monuments in Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0239-3 . , P. 288

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 21.7 "  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 59.6"  E