Brettacher mill
The Brettacher Mühle is a historic mill property in Brettach, a district of the municipality of Langenbrettach in the Heilbronn district ( Stuttgart district , Baden-Württemberg ). It has existed since at least the 14th century. Today's mill building is a cultural monument and dates from around 1600.
location
The mill is located at 185 m on the southwest edge of Brettach on a 210 meter long Mühlkanal that branches off to the right of the Brettach .
history
The mill was first mentioned in 1344 when Agnes von Weinsberg acquired the mill in Brettach from Konrad von Hornberg. In 1529 a Claus Rappolt was earning rye, hens and chickens and the mill was used by the rulers on a daily basis. Today's mill was built on the foundations of an older building between 1600 and 1602. Until the 19th century it was owned by the municipality, which gave it to existing tenants. Are mentioned u. a. Hans Schöber (1675) and Hans Jacob Müller (1719). In 1837 Georg Nikolaus Simpfendörfer bought the mill for 8,100 guilders . At that time she had four water wheels. In 1875 the mill was owned by Ludwig Hermann, whose descendants managed it until the end of the mill operation. In 1908 Müller Karl Hermann replaced two water wheels with a Zuppinger wheel . In 1955 a turbine from Langhammer from Nuremberg was installed to generate electricity.
After the death of the last miller from the Hermann family in 1977, his widow stayed in the mill, which was still used for energy generation, before the Langenbrettach community acquired the mill in 1998. Today, after extensive renovation work, the building houses a ballroom, a wedding room and the village museum.
description
The building has a distinctive volute gable with obelisk . The top of the gable is formed by a shell on which a lion or a bear holds a shield with a wheel. The back gable is crowned by a stone mill wheel. The portal on the long side is set in stone and has a lion's head as architectural decoration. Numerous scratched old inscriptions have been preserved in a sandstone window reveal on the ground floor.
A stone arch bridge from 1730, which was built by Johannes Simpfendörfer and Johann Georg Köhler, leads over the Mühlkanal.
The mill is considered to be the most elaborate mill construction in the entire district.
literature
- Description of the Upper Office Neckarsulm . K. statistical-topographisches Bureau, Stuttgart 1881, p. 303; on Wikisource
- Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . Stuttgart 2002, p. 209
- Heinz Tuffentsammer: The mills in the city and district of Heilbronn ( Mill Atlas Baden-Württemberg , Volume 4). Remshalden 2005, part 2 (text part), p. 103, no. 6722-319
Web links
- Brettacher Mühle on the community homepage of Langenbrettach
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '27.7 " N , 9 ° 22' 46.9" E