Broichmühle

Broichmühle
Broichmühle on the map Newly added from 1912
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 13 '49 "  N , 6 ° 29' 11"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '49 "  N , 6 ° 29' 11"  E
Location	Germany  North Rhine-Westphalia City of Mönchengladbach Neuwerk
Waters	Niers
Built	1315 first documented mention
Shut down	1980
technology
use	Flour mill , oil mill , wage mill and cotton mill .
Grinder	2 grinding courses , 1 oil press
drive	Water wheel , steam engine , electric motor .
water wheel	undershot

Millstone as a memorial in front of the Prior House in Neuwerk.

The Broich Mill was a water mill with an undershot water wheel at the upper reaches of the Niers , in Moenchengladbach district Neuwerk in the administrative district of Dusseldorf .

geography

The Broichmühle was located on the left side of the Niers, on Broichmühlenweg, in the Neuwerk district of Mönchengladbach. Above was the nuns mill , below the Neersen castle mill . The area on which the mill building stood has a height of approx. 38 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

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 Broichmühle was first mentioned in a document in 1315. The molendinum in Damme belonged to the St. Vith Abbey and was operated as an undercut grain mill. It was a spell mill for the Gladbach area and had different names over the years. So the mill was also called Abtsmühle , Bruchmühle , Dammer Mühle , Corstgens Mühle and Nerscher Mühle . For decades there were disputes over mill rights with the neighboring districts of Neersen , Willich , and Schiefbahn .

In 1663 the Broichmühle was expanded into an oil mill . After the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), the abbot Ambrosius Specht had the mill completely rebuilt in 1765. In the course of secularization , the mill remained in French ownership and was not auctioned off - like other mills. In 1815 the mill became the property of the Prussian state . In 1818 the mill was used as a flour mill, oil mill and tinder mill. Mill buildings that were driven by water wheels now stood on both sides of the Niers .

After a fire in 1823, the spinning mill from the Zoppenbroich mill was relocated to the Broich mill . In 1827 the mill was expanded to include a steam engine with 11 hp . The grain milling process was preserved in parallel. In addition to the grinding mill and cotton spinning mill , an arms factory was also operated around 1839 . With the Niersregulierung in 1935, the water power was lost and it was switched to electric drive. In 1980 the mill was stopped and in 1998 the building was closed. Today the Broichmühlenweg and the millstone in front of the Priorshaus in Neuwerk are reminiscent of the once busy Broichmühle. On this stone is the inscription : This stone is supposed to be a memory of four Neuwerker mills .

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide , 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 505-507.
• Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills . 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pp. 67-72, 115-119.

Web links

Commons : Broichmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fishing on the Niers
• Interesting facts about the Niers

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/