Birkenmühle (abandoned mill)

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Information board on the north bank of the Bromb axis about the abandoned mills

The Birkenmühle is an abandoned district of the former municipality of Ramsberg in the former Central Franconian district of Weißenburg in Bavaria . Today the area belongs to the Pleinfeld market in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district . Despite the lack of development today, Birkenmühle is an official district of Pleinfeld.

The mill was located on the Brombach, southeast of Absberg and northwest of Ramsberg in the area of ​​today's Great Brombach . Neighboring also by the construction of the reservoir Outbound Brombach mills were for earlier Gunzenhauser County community Thannhausen belonging Grafenmühle and also belongs to Ramsberg Öfeleinsmühle .

history

The place name is interpreted as "To the mill near the birches ". With a document dated August 20, 1302, Count Gebhard VII von Hirschberg sold, among other things, a pond in "Pirkken" to the Eichstätter Bishop Konrad II von Pfeffenhausen . The mill was subordinate to the Eichstättischen Amt Sandsee; there, for example, Conrad Pirckenmulner in 1407 and Hans Birckenmulner in 1456 had to pay taxes. By deed of 26 August 1474, the bishop of Eichstätt left Wilhelm von Reichenau the German Order of Coming Ellingen the "Birckenmühle" together with the associated Mühlweiher in exchange for Weyermühle including ponds, between Nennslingen and Syburg located, probably the so-called today Schwaben pond. From then on, the mill remained in the possession of the Teutonic Order of Ellingen until the end of the Holy Roman Empire , that is, the birch miller had to pay his duties there as fiefdoms. According to the Salbuch of the Teutonic Order in Ellingen, from 1536 24 pounds sterling and 24 pfennigs as well as a carnival chicken were to be paid for riches.

As a result of the secularization of the Teutonic Order by Napoléon Bonaparte , the birch mill, together with the Öfeleinsmühle, was transferred to the new Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 , where the two wastes in the district court / rent office Gunzenhausen from 1808 to the Absberg tax district , from 1811 to the rural community of Enderndorf (today part of Spalt ) and from 1818 the rural community of Ramsberg were incorporated. From 1857, Ramsberg and its mills belonged to the Ellingen district court and the Rentamt (and later to the Weißenburg district).

The Birkenmühle has been owned by the Lang family since 1893. In 1966 the hamlet consisted of three residential buildings. In the 1970s / 1980s, the Free State of Bavaria took over the mill and tore it down to build the Great Bromb axis.

Population numbers

  • 1818: 8 inhabitants
  • 1824: 6 inhabitants, 1 property
  • 1864: 12 inhabitants, 3 buildings
  • 1929: 14 inhabitants
  • 1950: 12 inhabitants, 3 properties
  • 1961: 7 residents, 2 residential buildings

literature

  • R. Schub: The birch mill near Absberg. Compiled from documented sources. In: Gunzenhauser Heimatbote, Volume VI (1938–1944), p. 200.
  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Francs . Row I, Issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . Edited by Hanns Hubert Hofmann. Munich 1960.
  • Erich Strassner: rural and urban district of Weißenburg i. Bay. Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 2 . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1966, especially No. 19, p. 6.
  • A day on the Mühlenweg - sunken mills around Absberg. [Flyer of] VGN-Freizeit 2/2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Library Online
  2. ↑ Description of the location according to: District map Gunzenhausen, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Cities-Verlag o. J.
  3. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  4. ↑ a b c Strassner, p. 6
  5. ↑ a b Schub, p. 200
  6. ^ Finding aids of the Staatl. Archive in Bavaria  ( 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.gda.bayern.de  
  7. ↑ Historical Atlas, pp. 230, 232, 254
  8. ^ Website of the Franconian Lake District
  9. ↑ a b c Historical Atlas, p. 254
  10. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1102 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Church in Bavaria on the right of the Rhine (1929) / 38
  12. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 835 ( digitized version ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '48.2 "  N , 10 ° 55' 28.8"  E