Cederwaldmühle

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The Cederwaldmühle or Zederwaldsmühle was a paper mill and later a paper mill in the city ​​center of Bergisch Gladbach an der Strunde .

history

A Pleißmühle is mentioned as the first mill that was built on the edge of the cedar forest . It cannot be said whether it was already built on an umbach, as the map of the cedar forest from the Herrenstrunden Commandery 's warehouse book from 1732 shows. In any case, it stood on the “dike” that was formed here from Umbach and Strunde. According to a tax list from 1686/87, the Pleißmühle am Driesch by Johann Schürmann burned down before 1586. The Herrenstrunden Commander Bernhard von Capell had a fulled leather mill built for the Commandery in 1682/83 instead of the dilapidated Pleißmühle. It was powered by an undershot water wheel and had a 6- foot drop .

In 1806 the French also secularized the Order of Malta , whereby its properties became state property. Later it was bought by Gerhard Jakob Fues. He built the Zederwaldsmühle into a new production facility for paper in 1820. In the Strunderbach protocol of 1823 a paper mill and a leather fulling mill are listed here. However, there is no further documentation on the latter. On January 15, 1865, Carl Richard Zanders leased the Gohrsmühle and the Zederwaldsmühle, which he used as a pulp mill. This was leased in 1869 to the mining engineer Heinrich Emondts, who manufactured cotton wool and cardboard lids there. In 1872 Wilhelm Hanebeck bought the Zederwaldsmühle. With a 150 centimeter wide single cylinder machine, from April 26, 1873, he initially only produced cardboard, later also paper. In 1911 a waste paper sorting plant was set up. However , the Hanebeck company was unable to survive the global economic crisis . In 1931 there was a foreclosure auction of the already shut down factory with its outdated equipment.

The car dealer Moritz J. Weig acquired the company in the same year and had it entered in the commercial register under the company Moritz J. Weig, Cederwaldmühle paper and cardboard factory . In 1950 he employed 160 people. The cardboard produced was mainly used for the cardboard and folding box industry, but also as packaging material for the ironmongery and food industry as well as for chemical and pharmaceutical products. Due to a lack of expansion possibilities, a WEIG branch was built in Mayen in the Eifel in 1956/57 , where all production was relocated in 1972. The old company premises served as a waste paper collection point for a long time before JW Zanders took over.

See also

literature

  • Ferdinand Schmitz : The paper mills and paper makers of the Bergisch Strundertal , Bergisch Gladbach 1921
  • 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
  • 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
  • Friedrich Gerhard Venderbosch and Herbert W. Kranzhoff: Cederwald and Cederwaldmühle: Moritz J. Weig and his company , special publication by the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis department of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein eV on the occasion of the 70th birthday of its chairman, the manufacturer Moritz J. Weig, Bergisch Gladbach no year
  • Herbert Stahl (editor) and others: " Gronau ", Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-932326-51-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 113ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9
  2. ↑ Pleiß von pleistern = plastering, smoothing, polishing with lime (armor had to be polished to be shiny and rust-resistant), see Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, German Dictionary, Leipzig 1854–1961, Volume 13, edited by Matthias von Lexer, Leipzig 1889, Reprint Munich 1991, column 1931

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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '8.9 "  N , 7 ° 7' 26.6"  E