Buchmühle (Bergisch Gladbach)

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The Buchmühle was originally a grain mill and later a Bokemühle on the Strunde , from which Buchmühle is derived. At the same time, it is a district in the city ​​center of Bergisch Gladbach .

History of the mill

The book mill stood behind the Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius . It was originally a fruit mill for the Gladbacher Hofverband, until this role was taken over by the more powerful Gronauer Mühle . Thereafter, it was probably as Bokemühle for pitching in the flax processing used. The drive took place via an undershot water wheel from a now gone umbach of the Strunde. The arable land to which the mill belonged was first mentioned in 1699 as the property of Thomas Zimmermann. At the beginning of the 18th century, the then Gladbach pastor Matthäus Moritz bought it from his own resources and bequeathed it to the parish to help finance a vicariate position. In 1814 the Buchmühle was so run down that Pastor Gellermann turned to the collator Franz Josef von Herwegh on July 21, 1814 to have the house and the barn restored. Instead of renovating, the book mill was sold to the landlord Peter Kierdorf as early as August 14, 1815 in the course of a public auction. Since 1840/41 the book mill and the surrounding country belonged to Theodor Berger, who ran a butcher's shop here.

History of the place

The name Buchmühle was based on the earlier name of the trench at An der Bockmühle , which was named Uf der Bochmüllen in 1582 and is recorded in the land register from 1869 near Buchmühlenstrasse. The field name is reminiscent of the former book mill, which originally belonged to the Gladbach Fronhof and was probably named after a beech or a beech forest on the site. When the mill stopped operating in the 15th century, the name was transferred to the farm buildings and the lands belonging to the mill.

In 1973, the last residents left the building - the town of Bergisch Gladbach had owned it for decades. The threatened demolition was counteracted in 1977 by restoration and conversion into a music school. At the end of 1993 the music school moved out. The city sold the building to architects who thoroughly renovated it in coordination with the monument office. To this day, the monument has been repeatedly maintained and serves as a showroom for local cooperation between planners and tradesmen. Culture - advanced training - and private events are also integrated into the usage concept.

Today's Buchmühlen building consists of two parts: the old half-timbered house - built in the 18th century according to the building findings - and a brick extension from around 1840.

The ensemble is entered under no. 30 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills , published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV in collaboration with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, p. 92ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9
  2. ^ A b Andree Schulte, Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach city archive, volume 3, and by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, pp. 128 f., ISBN 3-9804448-0-5

literature

  • Determination and order for the Strunderbach, printed by Chr.Illinger, Bergisch Gladbach o. J., (it concerns the Bach order and the Bach protocol from 1823 after a copy from 1854)
  • Frank Schulte: The mills on the Strunde , Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-932326-02-4
  • Hans Leonhard Brenner: Buchmühle - a name that keeps giving up puzzles , in: Romerike Berge , Zeitschrift für das Bergisches Land, 46th year 1996, pp. 18ff., ISSN  0485-4306
  • Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen, On the traces of the use of water power in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg , Wiehl 1998, p. 246, ISBN 3-931251-36-5
  • Anton Jux: The Bergisch Botenamt, the history of Bergisch Gladbach up to the Prussian era , published by the Culture Office of the City of Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach 1964

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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '32.4 "  N , 7 ° 7' 59.1"  E