Boetersmühle
The building in Amtsgasse 1 in the Hasserode district of the city of Wernigerode am Harz, which is now used as a residential building, was originally a paper mill . The vernacular calls it Boetersmühle after its builder . The building is a listed building .
history
A stone plaque above the entrance in Amtsgasse 1 names the builder: BUILT BY HEINR. CONR. BOETERS AND HORN BORN BY SOPHIE CHRISTIANE BOETERS. IN 1808.
The first paper mill on this site was built in 1685 by Hans Hennig Grobe. He was succeeded as owner by Johann Caspar Ludewig, who sold the paper mill to Johann Michael Räuper in 1723 and the latter to Johann Heinrich Märtens in 1743. After his death in 1783, his son Conrad took over the mill. Conrad Märtens went bankrupt. On January 31, 1805, the paper mill was forcibly auctioned. Heinrich Conrad Boeters, the builder of the current building, was awarded the contract for 5,275 Reichstaler .
The mill had different names: mill behind the castle , mill near the office or blue-colored paper mill . These names describe their location between the former Hasserode Castle - the office resided in the castle - and the blue paint factory . The cobalt blue produced in the latter was also used to dye paper and the "blue folders". Among the papermakers of the 18th century it was simply called the New Mill .
Heinrich Conrad Boeters had no children. So the mill went to his younger brother Heinrich Christoph Ernst. His wife gave birth to nine children. The eldest studied theology, served Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode for a few years as court chaplain and from 1847 to 1860 was the second pastor of St. Sylvestri in Wernigerode. The second son, Konrad Eduard Friederich, took over the mill after the death of his father on October 15, 1834 at the age of 19. At first he operated it with success, but then with increasing difficulties. The days of hand-scooped paper made from rags were over.
The new technology of producing paper from wood fibers and by machine as an endless belt required a greater investment of capital, which Eduard, like most other paper millers, could not or would not raise. His son Ernst Boeters finally sold the entire property to Ferdinand Karnatzky in 1917, who in 1916 built a chocolate factory on the neighboring site of the former Burgmühle. The mill was now a home for workers and a workshop for the production of shipping boxes for chocolate. When living space was scarce after the Second World War, apartments were also set up in the workshop section of the mill. The original roof with the ventilation flaps fell victim to a renovation before the fall of the Wall in 1989.
literature
- Ernst Boeters: Memories from my childhood . Görlitz-Biesnitz 1930.
- Hermann Paul Reichardt : History of the paper production facilities in the county of Wernigerode . Manuscript, German Museum of Books and Writing, Leipzig 1943.
- Georg von Gynz-Rekowski: The old mills in Hasserode . Manuscript, Harz Library Wernigerode 1992.
- Heinrich Ernst Boeters: The Boetersmühle in Hasserode . Seevetal 2012.
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 13.4 ″ N , 10 ° 44 ′ 36 ″ E