Wiesenmühle (Fulda)

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Meadow mill

Meadow mill on the Fulda

Meadow mill on the Fulda

Location and history
Wiesenmühle (Hesse)
Meadow mill
Coordinates 50 ° 33 '4 "  N , 9 ° 40' 5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '4 "  N , 9 ° 40' 5"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
Waters Fulda
Built 1337
Shut down 1960
Status Restored and functional, currently: power generation for breweries and restaurants
technology
use Flour mill , oil mill , hammer mill , fulling mill
Grinder four grinding courses, one cutting course (historical)
drive Watermill
water wheel undershot Zuppinger waterwheel , 44 blades, diameter 6.92 m
Website http://www.wiesenmuehle.de/

The Wiesenmühle (also Weiß-Mühle and Weißmühle ) is one of the oldest mills on the Fulda and is considered to be one of the oldest surviving mills in Germany. The mill, which stands west of the center of the Hessian city ​​of Fulda on an arm of the Fulda, was first mentioned in 1337.

Today the Wiesenmühle, a two-story, simple, plastered half-timbered building with a risalit , houses a hotel with a restaurant and its own brewery and, in summer, a beer garden . In addition, the building houses one of the largest mill wheels in Europe that is still in operation and supplies the building complex with energy.

building

For the first time, the mill built by the Benedictine monastery of Fulda was mentioned in a document from Prince Abbot Heinrich VI. mentioned by Hohenberg in 1337.

"Moleno situ slagmule apud Wismule prope monasterium fuldensis"

In 1367 the citizens fuldische Otto Mueller of Abbot was Henry VII. Of crane gaps with the operation of the mill invested . Six floods were reported in the chronicles in the 17th century. On January 6, 1628, the ground floor of the mill building was flooded and the interior was destroyed. On January 15, 1643, the mills along the Fulda were flooded again as a result of the snowmelt. In 1676, according to a traditional description of the property, the building complex consisted of a massive house with a grinder , four undershot grinding aisles and a cutting aisle , a beater and a fulling mill . Drive belts and drive shafts ran through the entire mill building to the attic . The property included agricultural areas in the Fulda floodplain, herb beds, meadows and stables. In the second half of the 18th century, a fish house was set up on the ground floor and belonged to the monastery. The Weissmühle served at that time as a flour mill with adjoining farm, sawmill , oil mill and towel factory for the production of loden .

On October 17, 1803, the mill burned down completely after ignition of fat residues. The mill and the farm buildings, which were still owned by the Fulda Monastery, were then rebuilt in their current form, with some older and still usable components being used in the interior. Until the middle of the 19th century the mill was managed by feudal people; then it went into private ownership . In 1894 the mill was sold to the leaseholder of the fulling mill, Wilhelm Rothaus, for 53,000 marks. The last millers were Damian Mans from 1921 and after him his daughter Maria, who came into possession of the mill in 1953. In 1929 the mill wheels were replaced by a turbine system that drove the grinders.

In 1960 the mill stopped operating and the property threatened to deteriorate. In 1980 the city of Fulda bought the building and the surrounding area in order to save the historic building from demolition. In 1985 the building had to be secured in an emergency, for which the city spent 18,000 DM. In September 1988, a private operating company presented a concept for the maintenance of the mill and its use as a pub brewery with a hotel, restaurant, conference rooms and beer garden, and on March 7, 1990 the renovated Wiesenmühle with the brewery and the hotel and catering facilities went into operation.

  • Wiesenmühle Fulda

  • Entrance to the brewery with the fountain, which consists of parts of the former turbine system.

  • Mill wheel of the meadow mill

  • Wiesenmühle with the Fulda

Mill wheel

The undershot mill wheel installed during the renovation in 1990 has a weight of 55 tons, is 6.5 meters wide and has a diameter of 6.92 meters. It consists of 44 blades in the style of a Zuppinger water wheel . At the time of its construction it was the largest water wheel of this type in Europe. With normal water flow, the mill wheel rotates 4.5 times per minute and supplies the building complex with electricity via a generator with an output of up to 85 kilowatts .

Todays situation

Guest room of the Wiesenmühle with historical support and ceiling beams

The house brewery has been awarded a DLG gold medal for pub breweries several times in recent years . The Wiesenmühlen beer is brewed all year round . In addition, various seasonal beers, including various bock beers , dark beer , wheat beer , pilsner and Imperial Pale Ale offered.

Inside the mill building and in the guest rooms there are still some historical bars and stones with water level marks. Today the meadow mill is classified as a cultural monument of significant historical value.

Wiesenmühle Fulda is a member of the Hessian State Association for the Preservation and Use of Mills (HLM) and regularly takes part in events and guided tours for the German Milling Day .

literature

  • Aloys Jestaedt: On the history of the Fulda meadow mill. In: Aloys Jestaedt, Thomas Martin (Hrsg.): Alt-Fulda, Bürgerhäuser and Adelspalais - essays on city history. 1938-1976. (= Publications of the Fulda History Association. Volume 53). Parzeller Verlag , Fulda 1989, ISBN 3-7900-0181-3 , p. 177 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Mott : Fulda then and now: when houses, squares and streets tell stories. Volume 2, Parzeller, Fulda 2001, ISBN 3-7900-0330-1 , p. 98 ff.
  2. ↑ "Wiesenmühle, District of Fulda". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ a b Martin Frey: Germany - Experience Renewable Energies . Baedeker, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8297-1495-2 , p. 110.
  4. ↑ Michael Antoni: The Fulda Lower Town: Social and economic history of the suburban communities from their formation to the middle of the 19th century . Parzeller, Fulda 1994, ISBN 3-7900-0237-2 , p. 96.
  5. ↑ Michael Antoni: The Fulda Lower Town: Social and economic history of the suburban communities from their formation to the middle of the 19th century . Parzeller, Fulda 1994, ISBN 3-7900-0237-2 , p. 97.
  6. ↑ Michael Mott: Fulda then and now: when houses, squares and streets tell stories. Volume 2, Parzeller, Fulda 2001, ISBN 3-7900-0330-1 , p. 98.
  7. ↑ http://www.hessischermuehlenverein.de/Teilnehmerverzeichnis 2015.pdf (link not available)
  8. ↑ a b hr-online.de: Wiesenmühle near Fulda, accessed on November 17, 2015.
  9. ^ A b Dieter Griesbach-Maisant (Ed.): Monument topography city of Fulda. Konrad-Theiss-Verlag, Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-528-06244-4 , pp. 27, 56, 239.
  10. ↑ Michael Mott: Fulda then and now: when houses, squares and streets tell stories. Volume 2, Parzeller, Fulda 2001, ISBN 3-7900-0330-1 , p. 100.
  11. ↑ Eugen Ernst: Mills through the ages. Theiss, 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1935-4 , p. 112.
  12. ↑ wiesenmühle.de: History of the Wiesenmühle , accessed on November 16, 2015.
  13. ↑ osthessen-news.de: Wilfried RENNER's stroke of luck: 20 years anniversary of the Brauhaus Wiesenmühle, March 3, 2010 , accessed on November 16, 2015.
  14. ^ Working group for rural culture: Mills between Vogelsberg and Burgwald: Documentary recording of all mills and desert mill locations on the Ohm and their numerous tributaries; Presentation of the different and problematic mill aspects with critical perspectives. Burgwald-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-936291-20-9 , p. 29.
  15. ↑ a b hessischermuehlenverein.de: Mühlen in Hessen ( Memento from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 16, 2015.
  16. ↑ wiesenmuehle.de: types of beer , accessed on November 16, 2015.
  17. ↑ Dieter Griesbach-Maisant (ed.): Monument topography city of Fulda , Konrad-Theiss-Verlag, Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-528-06244-4 , pp. 27, 56, 239.
  18. ^ German Society for Milling and Milling Conservation eV: Milling Day 2015, Participant Directory Hessen , accessed on November 16, 2015.

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