Bodenburg windmill
The Bodenburgsche windmill was a windmill in today to the city of Magdeburg belonging Westerhüsen .
history
In 1833/34, the miller Johann Schulze from Randau built the windmill in Westerhüsen on a field of 1/2 acre with the field name Buttersack . It belonged to the Alt Westerhüsen 8 property and was to the west behind the house built in 1835. From the main road, a road led south along the property to the mill. Schulze had been married to Sophie Dorothee Böckelmann , the daughter of the half-horse and Dreilinger Michael Böckelmann , at Kieler Strasse 3 , since August 8, 1819 .
In 1838 the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line was laid directly behind the mill . Friedrich Schulze (born June 13, 1828), son of the builder who died on July 1, 1861 at the age of 71, took over the mill in 1860. He himself remained childless. The enthusiastic hunter then sold the windmill in 1869 to the Tornitz master miller Andreas Bodenburg (born May 20, 1845). Bodenburg participated as a hussar in the German War in 1866 . On January 24, 1869, he married Auguste Männicke in his garrison town of Aschersleben . The marriage had five children. Soon he had to go to war again, this time to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 . During his military service, the mill burned down on January 21, 1871. The fire was caused by flying sparks from a passing locomotive. Only after a lengthy process was the railway company ready to pay compensation. The miller was badly affected by the accident and his wife's health was impaired. The Wanzleben District Office granted permission to rebuild on July 4, 1871, but the rebuilding took a long time. It was not until 1876 that the miller put four stone pillars on which the mill should stand. However, on September 19, 1876, a protest was made by a builder from the railway company, which the government joined. The building consensus already granted by the district administrator is invalid, as the responsibility lies with the state administration. A construction freeze was imposed and a daily fine of 30 marks was threatened in the event of a violation. Bodenburg continued to build and completed the windmill on January 4, 1877. He later wrote to the district administrator: “I remember Ew. Wellborn to the mill at Sanssouci , but I am ready for anything good. On the 21st of the month it is 7 years since my bread was stolen from me, I think there is enough sorrow - hunger hurts! My right or dead ” .
A new building permit was actually issued on July 23, 1877, but it contained the requirement to raise the pillars by three meters, to put walls between the pillars below the mill and to cover all outer surfaces with roofing felt . The work would have cost 1,400 marks. Bodenburg then applied to the railway for aid, but this was refused. An application for a grant was also rejected by the government. Instead of the roofing felt, however, an asphalt coating was also considered sufficient. Ultimately, on October 30, 1878, the already built mill was approved. The mill loomed over the bank of the railway.
Economically, however, the mill had problems as it was troubled by competition from the other larger mills in the neighborhood. In 1886 the miller built his own bakery, which improved the economic situation. However, in the course of the industrialization of the area between Salbke and Westerhüsen, the development that was advancing turned out to be difficult, as this reduced the wind yield. The Fischersche Villa was built west of the mill in 1892 and the screw factory in 1899 . To the south, the glassmaker's yard was built in 1872 and 1902 . The latter, the still existing building Alt Westerhüsen 12 , stood with its north gable only 14 meters from the mill. In 1903 the windmill was converted. It received a new roller mill, a cleaning machine and two classifiers. In 1906, Bodenburg's son Richard Bodenburg took over the mill. Father Andreas Bodenburg moved to Fermersleben , where his eldest son Ernst ran a bakery. Andreas Bodenburg died there on September 29, 1910. Richard sold the mill in 1907 to the trading company W. Gerloff . The company had the mill torn down, the interior furnishings were sold to a company in Magdeburg-Neustadt, and the Mühlenberg was demolished. The plan to build a large straw shed there with a volume of 1520 m 3 as well as a siding was not approved because it was too close to the railway. Richard Bodenburg initially lived in the rented house and continued to run the bakery. He later moved to Neustädter Strasse in Magdeburg's old town , where he died on November 21, 1929.
literature
- Friedrich Großhennig, Ortschronik von Westerhüsen in the Magdeburg-SO district , manuscript in the Magdeburg city archive, signature 80 / 1035n, Part I, page 132 ff.
- Sabine Ullrich, Industrial Architecture in Magdeburg - Breweries, Mills, Sugar and Chicory Industry , State Capital Magdeburg 2003, page 150
- The Westerhüser Mühlen and Müller in Evang. Municipal journal Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, around 1938
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westerhüsens Krieger 1864, 1866 and 1870/71 in From the home history of Magdeburg-Westerhüsen , August 1942; in the Westerhüser mills and millers in the Evang. Gemeindeblatt Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, around 1938, is given as the date of death as September 28, 1910
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 7.1 ″ N , 11 ° 40 ′ 20.7 ″ E