Lichtena post mill

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The Lichtena post mill is a listed historical post mill from 1650. It is located about eight kilometers north of the small town of Doberlug-Kirchhain in the south of the Lichtena district in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .

history

Zieke mill

The year of origin of the post mill, which still exists today, is dated to the year 1650. This makes it one of the oldest windmills in the region. The mill originally belonged to the Lichtenaer Lehnrichtergut . Its owner was the liege judge Christoph Heyde around 1740. Other owners of the mill were a miller named Theer and later together Gottlob Ziesche, an innkeeper from Naundorf near Ruhland and the master locksmith Gotthelf Mehl from Ruhland . In 1853 a Heinrich Eduard Marschner appeared in a document in connection with the mill. Woitzik speculated here that he was possibly the leaseholder of the feudal judge's property and thus the mill at that time.

In July 1862 this mill was purchased by Carl Ziecke from Goßmar . In 1900 it took over Zieke's son Emil Zieke, who used it commercially until 1952. A little later, the mill was completely decommissioned in the mid-1950s.

The mill had a grinding and a grist pass . Its current owner, Mario Zieke from Lichtena (grandson of Emil Zieke), tries to preserve the historic building and sporadically opens the post mill on Mill Day .

  • State of the Lichtena post mill in the 1970s

  • 1972

  • 1977

  • 1977

Another mill story from Lichtena

The small town of Lichtena has a very long history of mills. The earliest mention of a windmill comes from the 17th century . In 1678 the miller Martin Mirtzsch had to pay the windmill interest of 15 groschen and a bushel of grain to the church in Trebbus . There are other well-known documentary mentions of mill interest payments from the years 1798, 1808, 1812, 1817 and 1820. In these years the miller Johann Christoph Müller had to pay the mill interest.

As the former monument conservator and regional historian Manfred Woitzik wrote in his book “Whoever comes first - first serves”, the tax table of the Dobrilugk office in 1740 contains two mills in Lichtena. Mirtzsch and Müller therefore paid for a windmill, which was located about 150 meters east of the mill that still exists today. Woitzik calls it the Theuergarten mill , since it was last owned by a miller family called Theuergarten since at least 1840. In 1925 this mill was moved about 6 kilometers further west to another historic mill location in Ossak near Sonnewalde . Here it was owned by the miller Wilhelm Kube. Woitzik does not record what became of the building that originally existed here.

Web links

Commons : Lichtenaer Windmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 27, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e Manfred Woitzik: “First come - first served” a cultural history of the mills in the Elbe-Elster district . Ed .: Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District. Herzberg 2000, p. 166/167 .
  3. ↑ List of monuments of the Elbe-Elster district of December 31, 2008 ( online as a PDF file) ( Memento of the original of April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / preview.bldam-brandenburg.de
  4. ↑ a b Bodo Baumert: “High visit to Mill Day” in Lausitzer Rundschau , May 25, 2009.
  5. ^ Author collective of the MUG Brandenburg eV: Heimatbuch Landkreis Elbe-Elster . Herzberg 1996, p. 75 .
  6. ↑ a b "Trebbus: Two close together" in Lausitzer Rundschau , May 14, 2005.
  7. ↑ L. Günther: "Is there the oldest mill in Lichtena?" In Lausitzer Rundschau , May 29, 2004.
  8. ↑ Manfred Woitzik: "Genuis loci" . Ed .: Association of Friends and Supporters of the Finsterwalde District Museum. Herzberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9811107-0-8 , pp. 399 .
  9. ↑ Manfred Woitzik: "First come - first serve" a cultural history of mills in the Elbe-Elster district . Ed .: Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District. Herzberg 2000, p. 174 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 9.2 "  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 22.5"  E