Bottmühle Odenkirchen

Bottmühle Odenkirchen
The Bottbach in Odenkirchen
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 7 '57 "  N , 6 ° 26' 39"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '57 "  N , 6 ° 26' 39"  E
Location	Germany  North Rhine-Westphalia City of Mönchengladbach Odenkirchen
Waters	Bottbach
Built	1744
Shut down	1870
technology
use	Paper mill
Grinder	1 grind
drive	water wheel
water wheel	undershot

The Bottmühle Odenkirchen was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the Bottbach, a branch on the upper reaches of the Niers in the Mönchengladbach district of Odenkirchen in the Düsseldorf administrative region .

geography

The Bottmühle Odenkirchen was located on Bottbach, Karlstrasse / Straßburger Allee in the Mönchengladbach district of Odenkirchen. Above was the Odenkirchen castle mill on the Niers , below the Pixmühle . The area on which the mill building stood is at a height of approx. 60 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Bottbach rises in the Wetscheweller Bruch , previously crossed under the Niers and flowed through Odenkirchen. Today the Bottbach flows into the Niers shortly before the railway underpass in Güdderath. Behind the underpass, the Bottbach begins again, where it is artificially fed with water from a discharge point. It flows through, partly piped, Odenkirchen and flows into the Niers in Beller Park.

The Niers (GEWKZ 286) in its old river bed supplied numerous mills with water for centuries until the river was straightened . The Niers rises in Kuckum , a district of the city of Erkelenz . The Niers has a total length of 117.668 km and a total catchment area of ​​1,380.630 km ² up to its confluence with the Meuse near Gennep (Netherlands) . The source is 73  m above sea level. NN , the mouth at 9  m above sea level. NN . The Niersverband is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The Bottmühle Odenkirchen was built in 1744 by the Odenkirchen rulers as a paper mill . It was located on the Bottbach, a possibly artificially created stream . The mill also bore the name of its owner in later times and was also called Gisbertsmühle and Schweitzermühle . In the 19th century, textile fabrics were also manufactured in the mill . The mill is registered on the original cadastral map from 1844 as a twist mill . Lamp wicks were also made until it was closed in 1870 . The mill has disappeared from the scene today.

gallery

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  Course of the Niers near the former Bottmühle

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  Park in Odenkirchen near the former Bottmühle

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  Odenkirchen on the map new entry from 1912

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  The twist mill in Odenkirchen on the original cadastral map from 1844

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , page 487.
• Robert Lünendonk: Die Niers and their mills 1st edition November 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pages 41, 42, 43, 49, 50.

Web links

Commons : Bottmühle Odenkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fishing on the Niers
• Interesting facts about the Niers
• Website of the Heimatverein Odenkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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.  
4. ↑ http://www.Niersverband.de/