Bachmühle (Unterriexingen)
The Bachmühle is a former watermill on the Glems in the Markgröningen district of Unterriexingen in Baden-Württemberg . It got its name to distinguish it from the Enzmühle, another mill north of the village on a former weir in the Enz .
history
A mill in Unterriexingen is mentioned in a list of goods for the Alsatian monastery of Weißenburg drawn up by Abbot Edelin around 1280 . But it is unclear whether it is the Bach or the Enzmühle. A certain mention can only be found in a document from 1379: The mill now belongs to the church and local lord Heinrich von Riexingen and is called "Mülin in the village" here. It was at that time still without Mühlgraben undershot operated.
Oversleeping operation
In the 17th and 18th centuries the Bachmühle was in the hands of the Grau family of millers. In 1687 Hannß Jost Grau withdrew his application to give up the Bachmühle and to rebuild the abandoned Enzmühle because of the high costs. It seemed more favorable to him to counteract the unsteady flow of water by building a mill canal for overshot operations. With the approval of the Württemberg Rentkammer, he then built the 540 meter long Mühlgraben branching off to the left of the Glems, which mostly led through stately meadows and at the mill under the courtyard and Glemsstrasse (see map). His successor, Hans Jörg Grau, who operated two grinding courses and one tanning course, had to go to Duke Eberhard Ludwig from Württemberg and to Johann Philipp von Sternenfels and Maria Jacobe Schertlin, née. von Sternenfels, pay dues.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Friedrich Lieb married into the mill, which was now powered by four overshot water wheels. Two more were added in the Lieb era to power a plaster mill and a hemp grater. In front of today's Glemsbrücke near the Bachmühle there was still a weir until the 20th century, from which a smaller canal on the right of the Glems led to a bet and further to the meadow irrigation in the Enzaue (see map). At the second mouth of the Mühlkanal further down the Glems there was at times another mill.
In 1853 Heinrich Michael Weizsäcker acquired the Bachmühle, only to cede it to Jakob Friedrich Krumm from Gündelbach in 1869 , who in turn sold it to Christian Friedrich Müller from Brackenheim in 1872 . At the time of the sale, in addition to the mill building with four aisles, the mill included a tanning mill and a dust house, barn and wagon shed, a pig and cattle shed, a wash house and a bakery.
From 1880 to 1905 the Bachmühle belonged to Wilhelm Sax. When he sold it to the Markgröninger Wilhelm Klink, it had two overshot waterwheels, each 3.76 m in diameter and 1.04 m and 1.23 m in width. She worked with three grinding cycles and one tanning cycle and also had a semolina cleaning machine, a forage cutting machine and a threshing machine. The water also powered a grindstone and a fruit grinder, the teeth of which and the two stones running against each other made the fruit smaller before it was pressed.
Conversion to turbines and abandonment
In 1931 Christoph Weil took over the mill and in 1935 replaced the damaged water wheels with an Ossberger turbine with a maximum output of 23 HP. In 1971 his son Gerhard Weil installed a new Ossberger suction tube turbine with a maximum output of 50.3 hp. In 1993, this last miller stopped the milling operation, had the mill building converted into a residential building and some outbuildings torn down. The turbine will continue to be used to generate electricity. The Mühlkanal was preserved and flows into the Glems here as a "bypass".
The Bachmühle is the last station on the Glemsmühlenweg, which runs from Leonberg to Unterriexingen, with a sign .
literature
- Wolfgang Weber: After more than 1000 years, the Unterriexingen mill history has come to an end. In: Müller, Mühlen, Wasserkraft , Volume 5 of the series "Through the city glasses, history and stories about Markgröningen", ed. from the Working Group on Historical Research, Heritage and Monument Preservation (AGD) Markgröningen, pp. 173–180. Markgröningen 1995.
- Thomas Schulz: The mills in the Ludwigsburg district , Mill Atlas Baden-Württemberg , Volume 3. Verlag M. Hennecke, Remshalden-Buoch 1999, ISBN 3-927981-63-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Weber: After more than 1000 years, the Unterriexingen mill history has come to an end. In: Müller, Mühlen, Wasserkraft , Volume 5 of the series Through the City Glasses , ed. from AGD Markgröningen, Markgröningen 1995, pp. 173-175.
- ↑ According to this, the mill was then partly in the hands of the local rulers and partly in Württemberg. Source: Württ. Stock book fol. 9, Fürstliches Kellerey-Lagerbuch 1707, Vol. 1089.
- ↑ Wolfgang Weber: After more than 1000 years, the Unterriexingen mill history has come to an end. In: Müller, Mühlen, Wasserkraft , Volume 5 of the series Through the City Glasses , ed. from AGD Markgröningen, Markgröningen 1995, p. 178f, source: Bietigheim land surveying office: Goods books 399 and 452 with a site plan from 1871.
- ↑ Thomas Schulz: The mills in the Ludwigsburg district , Mühlenatlas Baden-Württemberg , Volume 3. Verlag M. Hennecke, Remshalden-Buoch 1999.
- ↑ Wolfgang Weber: After more than 1000 years, the Unterriexinger mill history has come to an end , In: Müller, Mühlen, Wasserkraft , Volume 5 of the series Durch die Stadtbrille , ed. from AGD Markgröningen, Markgröningen 1995, p. 180.
See also
- Information board on Glemsmühlenweg
- Review article on Glemsmühlen
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '14.5 " N , 9 ° 3' 23.1" E