Birkmannsmühle

Location of the Birkmannsmühle in Korschenbroich

Location and history

Coordinates

51 ° 11 ′ 41 ″ N , 6 ° 32 ′ 3 ″ E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 41 ″ N , 6 ° 32 ′ 3 ″ E

Location

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
- City of Korschenbroich
  - Engbrück

Waters

Trietbach, Niers

Built

around 1817

Shut down

1882

technology

use

Flour mill

Grinder

Grinding mill

drive

water wheel

undershot

The Birkmannsmühle was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the Trietbach in the town of Korschenbroich in the administrative district of Düsseldorf .

geography

The Birkmannsmühle was located on Trietbach, on Lichtstrasse, on Engbrück in the former municipality of Pesch , in today's town of Korschenbroich. The area on which the mill building stood has a height of approx. 42 m above sea level .

Waters

The Trietbach (GEWKZ 286152) is a 13.379 km long tributary of the Niers, which in earlier times drained the Hoppbruch together with the Fluit (Flöt). The Trietbach supplied the Birkmannsmühle with water. Below the Nonnenmühle , the Trietbach flows into the Niers on the right.

The Niers (GEWKZ 286) in its old river bed supplied numerous mills with water for centuries until the river was straightened . It rises in Kuckum , a district of the city of Erkelenz . The Niers has a total length of 117.668 km and a total catchment area of 1,380.630 km ² up to its confluence with the Meuse near Gennep (Netherlands) . The source is 73 m above sea level. NN , the mouth at 9 m above sea level. NN . The Niersverband is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The Birkmannsmühle was built in 1817 by a man named Birkmann. He had widened the Trietbach especially for this. But the mill did not last long. The cause is explained in the current field name. This is called: Drunk Mill .