Böckelmann windmill
The Böckelmannsche Windmühle was a windmill in the Westerhüsen district , now part of the city of Magdeburg , which later stood in Meitzendorf .
history
The mill was built in 1716. Kaspar Wieblitz , the miller at the Westerhüsen ship mill , had received permission to build this new mill because of the increased demand. According to the contract concluded with the cathedral chapter on October 17, 1716, the cathedral chapter had to make the building site available, and Kaspar Wieblitz had to build the mill on it, which remained his property. Ten thalers were agreed as the annual base rate to be paid. The mill was built on the hills west of the village in the area of today's Sohlener Straße. Wieblitz probably lived on the property at Alt Westerhüsen 31, to which the mill belonged. Kaspar Wieblitz had good relations with the cathedral bailiwick. In response to a complaint made by him, the Domvogtei forbade the Beyendorfer miller Nickoln on April 21, 1721, to collect grain from Westerhüser customers in a cart. He was threatened with a fine of 10 thalers and the cart was confiscated. There had been a similar dispute about the ship mill years earlier, with the Westerhüsen side ultimately losing out in court.
In 1735 Wieblitz handed over the wind and ship mills to his son Peter Wieblitz , who had previously worked in the management of the mills. Kaspar Wieblitz moved to Salbke , where he died on June 6, 1756. Later was Johann Wieblitz owner of the windmill, he died 90-year-old on November 8, 1865. As early as 1839 for operation as a son of the farmer Martin Böckelmann from today Hilligerstraße 3 born Müller Daniel Böckelmann (1809-1898), to the mill name back, together with Anna Elisabeth, nee Wieblitz , the sister of the previous owner, the mill. In 1866 the mill is said to have received a new hammer. The son Johann Böckelmann (1844–1911) ran the mill from 1885. The mill remained largely unchanged over time, only the interior was renewed. 1897 was milling operation by a modern roller mill replaced and purchased vision machines.
Johann Böckelmann later sold the mill to the miller Otto Beyer from Meitzendorf because his own son did not want to continue the business. Beyer dismantled the mill and had it brought to Meitzendorf. It was later shut down there. In 1938 it was the last Meitzendorfer mill to stand in the open without a wing. Inside, however, Beyers' daughter was still operating a grist mill . Today, however, the mill is no longer preserved.
Johann Böckelmann sold his Kossatenhof in 1908 to the Jewish merchant Aron Lubrainschick , who built a department store there. Johann Böckelmann lived in this house for rent until his death.
The property of the mill was initially owned by Böckelmann and after his death his wife remained. During the period of inflation, the site was sold to the Allendorff brothers from Schönebeck . The arable land was converted into allotment gardens. Even today (as of 2011) there is an allotment garden on the site. The place of the mill could be seen for a long time. In a report from 1938 it is described that the top of the mill hill has been somewhat worn away. The large boulders on which the mill buck originally rested had been rolled into a large pit by the owner of the garden plot, Hermann Pohl . At the time, there was a barrel-vaulted cellar on the east side of the mill hill.
Inscriptions
Above the mill door it read Ao , weathered and indistinct . 1797 . Inside the mill, cut into a beam above the door, said:
MJDW DEN 4T. MARCH
A.MB 1782 JAB
The meaning of the letters is only partially clear. The first four letters stood for master Johann Daniel Wieblitz . The other letters probably denoted other people. The meaning of the year is also unknown. It seems conceivable that the mill could be rebuilt in 1782 as a replacement for the building from 1716, or at least a repair was carried out. The inscription AB 1866 was on a sill beam of the trestle . Possibly the inscription referred to the possibly added new hammer in 1866, although it is unclear why it was not then on the hammer itself.
literature
- Friedrich Großhennig, Ortschronik von Westerhüsen in the Magdeburg-SO district , manuscript in the Magdeburg city archive, signature 80 / 1035n, Part I, pages 126 and 130
- Sabine Ullrich: Industrial architecture in Magdeburg - breweries, mills, sugar and chicory industries. State capital Magdeburg, 2003, p. 150.
- The Westerhüser Mühlen and Müller in the Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, 15th year, No. 8, August 1938
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Westerhüser Mühlen and Müller in the Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, Volume 15, No. 8, August 1938
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 52.3 " N , 11 ° 40 ′ 15.2" E