Bormannsmühle

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Residential building Chausseestraße 1
View from the east

The Bormannsmühle , also known as Bormannsche Wassermühle or Alte Stiftsmühle , is a listed mill farm in the Bad Suderode district, part of the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located northeast of the center of Bad Suderode, on the south side of Chausseestrasse at the address Chausseestrasse 1. Immediately to the east of the property is the border with the Gernrode district . The Quarmbach runs to the west . It is registered as a mill yard in the local monument register.

Architecture and history

The yard is a traditional watermill location . The first documentary mention dates back to 1241. In the first half of the 17th century, the mill was rebuilt at its current location by a Mr. Bormann. Today's buildings mostly date from the 19th century. In addition to the actual watermill building, including the residential area, there are three timber-framed commercial buildings.

The mill stood directly on the border between Prussia and Anhalt on Prussian territory. The border ran in the stream that drove the mill. Originally there were two watercourses. The watercourse driving the mill wheel was filled in later. In 1847 the road was expanded and led through the middle of the mill property. The barn belonging to the mill was on the other side of the street. The cause was a dispute between the miller Johann Heinrich Bormann and the Duke of Anhalt. When the Duke wanted to drive into the property over the brook into Prussia, the miller called to the Duke, "Your way goes around the Bickemühle , this is my property!" The Duke wrote an indignant letter to the Prussian king. He actually had the system of the thoroughfare, which was initially designed as an unpaved dirt road.

The son of Johann Heinrich Bormann, Karl Friedrich Bormann , donated the Hungerstein , a little northeast of the mill, in 1847 , which is reminiscent of a famine caused by drought. The drought had also brought the water mills to a standstill. Bormann also had the Bormann Bridge built in the Cold Valley .

The mill was still in operation as a grist mill until the mid-1950s . The last miller was Hugo Bormann. Since his only son died in the war, the related family Heinz Ohder inherited the property, which is still the owner of the property today (as of 2013).

literature

  • Bernd Schobeß, The watermill at the entrance to the village in Do you know how it was back then? - Pictures, numbers and story (s) from the old Suderode , without a year, page 17.
  • Bernd Schobeß, The Stiftsmühle on the border between Prussia and Anhalt in Do you know how it was back then? Part II - Pictures, figures and stories from the old Suderode , without a year, page 19 f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 40.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Schobeß, Bad Suderode and the surrounding area - historical sites, sights and hiking destinations , publisher: Freundeskreis Alte Kirche, Bad Suderode 1995, page 6
  2. ↑ a b c Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 169
  3. ↑ Bernd Schobeß, The Stiftsmühle on the border between Prussia and Anhalt in Do you know how it was back then? Part II - Pictures, figures and stories from the old Suderode , without a year, page 19

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '53.4 "  N , 11 ° 7' 36.7"  E