Post mill from Papenhorst
The post mill from Papenhorst is a post mill . They originally stood in Papenhorst (Edemissen) and was in the Hessenpark in Neu-Anspach translocated .
history
The "Papenhorst" ( ⊙ ) residential area is 1.5 km northwest of Alvesse , a district of the Edemissen community in the Peine district in Lower Saxony. It was first mentioned in a document in 1406. Today the living space consists of two isolated houses.
On January 11, 1868, the miller Carl Boes applied to the Meinersen office in charge of building a post mill for grain. His grinding circle would consist of the villages of Plockhorst , Eickenrode , Alvesse and Rietze . These places are over an hour away from the nearest mill. On January 22, 1868, the office questioned the mayor of the above-mentioned places. Although they saw no need, they also had no objections. The opposition of neighboring mill owners was directed against the construction. However, the responsible office approved the new building. On August 12th, the Landdrostei Lüneburg also agreed and granted immediate building permission on November 11th, 1868. Carl Boes acquired the building site on the way from Eickenrode to Blumenhagen , in the so-called Papenhorst, from the court owner Friedrich Heuer. He paid 348 thalers, 26 groschen and 3 pfennigs for the area of 2 acres and 9 rods. In the winter of 1868/1869 he built a post windmill there and took advantage of the wind-favorable location on the hill there. The bills for the building materials amounted to around 700 thalers.
Electrification made the operation of windmills unprofitable. In 1958, the then owners Theodor and Anneliese Matthies shut down the mill. In the end it was only used as a commercial subsidiary to their agriculture. The mill fell into disrepair. The state of Lower Saxony later placed them under monument protection. Since it was not available on site, the mill specialist Reinhard Leichert from Schleswig-Holstein received the permit to dismantle the mill in order to set it up again at another location. His request to rebuild it in his small mill museum in Husberg near Neumünster was not granted. Instead, the reconstruction in the Hessenpark took place in 1987. In 2015 the mill reopened. Today it is part of assembly group G - East Hesse.
Until the end of the 19th century, the type of post mill was the most common form of windmill in today's Hesse. Since not a single copy of these historical windmills was preserved, the Hessenpark decided to set up this mill, even though it did not come from Hessen. Wind operation is not possible at the Hessenpark location. The mill is therefore powered electrically on show days.
literature
- Eugen Ernst : The two windmills in the Hessenpark , in: Eugen Ernst and Heinz Reitz, mills in history and future , Hessenpark, series of publications by the Hessian Open Air Museum, issue 8, Neu-Anspach 1991, pp. 92–94.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 36.7 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 16.2 ″ E