Calvörde Castle Mill
The Burgmühle was a water mill in Calvörde in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany .
location
The former castle mill, which was part of Calvörde Castle , is located not far from the Calvörde town center and once right at the Gardelegen gate in the town of Calvörde. At the Bohlendamm, the later Steindamm, the castle mill had a road connection. Calvörde Castle is located north of the former castle, today the so-called White Ohre Bridge adorns the transition where the mill once stood. Today the Steindamm is part of the Gardelegener Straße.
history
The name of the watermill goes back to Calvörde Castle, as this castle mill was owned by the lords of the castle.
The end
The Drömling was always considered a marshland, the agricultural yields were very poor, cattle diseases were not uncommon. Through Frederick the Great and his ear straightening program, numerous meadows on the Ohre and in the Drömlings area were made arable. His successor Friedrich Wilhelm II (Prussia) continued his work. The office of Calvörde lay on the Ohre and did not belong to Prussia, but to the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . The King of Prussia took over the cost of straightening the ears in the office of Calvörde, while the Bürgmühle was bought for 19,000 thalers and shut down.
literature
- Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde, a chronicle up to 1991; Calvörde as it used to be and as it is now, Friedrich Röver, 1832
Web links
- About the Altmark: A contribution to the customer of the Mark Brandenburg, Volume 1
- Princely territorial sovereignty and local aristocratic power, Volume 72
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 40.5 " N , 11 ° 18 ′ 25.7" E