Cordinger mill
 
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The Cordinger Mill in Bomlitz |
The Cordinger Mühle is a former watermill with a mill yard ( miller's house and bakery ) and ponds, which is located in the Warnau valley between Cordingen and Benefeld (city of Walsrode ) in the southwestern Lüneburg Heath . The mill was first mentioned in a document in 1661.
Today's mill
The complex, which was restored by the Bomlitz community in the 1980s, is one of the most valuable historical buildings in the Heidekreis district . The mill, built in 1810, was in operation until the 1950s. Today the mill building is used for civil weddings in the city of Walsrode and is rented out for celebrations.
In the Müllerhaus there is an exhibition with documents and manuscripts about and by Arno Schmidt . The writer lived with his wife from 1945 to 1950 on the mill yard, which was then still fully cultivated; it was here that his first post-war stories Enthymesis , Gadir , Leviathan and Brand's Haide were written .
The Niedersächsische Mühlenstraße leads past the Cordinger Mühle. The rustic-looking mill area is very attractive due to its location in the narrowest, almost 20 meter recessed section of the Warnau valley. It is also one of the starting points for the Eibia-Lohheide recreation area via the Arno-Schmidt-Path . Following the steep bank of the Warnau, the Bomlitz archaeological hiking trail can also be reached from here .
history
The Cordinger Mühle is the lowest of three locations of former mills on the Warnau, which are only a good kilometer apart. This extraordinary proximity was normally opposed to the mill ban, but here the border running along the Warnau between the former areas of the Rethem office and the Fallingbostel Grand Bailiwick could have allowed a competitive situation between the Jarlinger Mühle (Rethem) and the Benefelder Mühle (Fallingbostel) a little below . Later, the Benefelder mill appears to have been moved to its current location below the town of Cordingen.
In 1408 Johann von der Fulde sold a mill in Benefeld to the Walsrode monastery for repurchase. In 1410 the brothers Johann and Gödeke Torney transferred their shares in the Mühlenhof zu Benefeld, which the Hogrefe zu Cordingen lived in , to their brother . Two months later the Torney brothers sold a mill in Benefeld with a farm to the monastery in Walsrode. In 1661 the water mill at Cordingen was first mentioned with a single grinding mill, Hans Scheelen was the miller. From the year 1667: "Johan Fuhrhoop zur Kordinger Mühle (mill with one grinder, house, yard with a granary, a grain barn, a sheepfold, a small hay barn, a bakery, an Immenstelle, ½ acre of wood)". The Kurhannoversche Landesaufnahme (sheet 89 Walsrode) shows a mill at today's location for 1778.
In 1810 the mill was rebuilt by HF Fuhrhop (inscription in the door bar). Johann Georg Heino bought the mill in 1828/1829 from the widow of the miller Müller. In 1833 an application was made to build an oil store and the following year the oil field (for oil fruits ) was built. 1841 was followed by a stripping - recess . In the course of the 19th century the mill received an oil ramming plant. The "most obedient report of Bernicke (?) Zu Walsrode at the royal Hanoverian office in Fallingbostel about the East-Cordinger Mahlmühle" was handed down from 1845. In 1866 a powder mill was mentioned that was leased to the Wolff company . In 1888 two workers died there in an explosion. In the course of the track construction work for the Hanover-Visselhövede railway line , Müller Heino submitted an application for the protection of his dams in 1876 . The application was rejected as unfounded.
The Vollhof zur Cordinger Mühle (at that time Ahrsen No. 1 ), also called Ost Cordingen, comprised storage facilities in 1877 , three small houses , a sheepfold, barn with apartment, mill, bakery, pigsty, powder mill , shed, spinning mill building , wool shed, stable building and drying house. In the list of houses from 1892/1893, the Mühlenhof was deleted as house number 1 in the village of Ahrsen and was henceforth listed behind number 8 in the municipality of Borg.
In 1901 the widow Dorothea Magdalene Heino sold the property to Georg Friedrich Melcher from Bremen . A Mr. Kannengießer from Bremen-Walle bought the mill in 1914. He had to give up his parents' business there because Walle became part of Bremen. It was only after the war, from 1918, that Kannengießer was able to fully devote himself to the business in Cordingen. He hired Heinrich Westermann as a miller. The mill was rebuilt, renovated and equipped with new machines. The sawmill (near today's Warnaubrücke on the Bomlitz – Walsrode railway line ) was sold in 1919 as it was no longer profitable. The Cordinger wood industry later developed from it . In 1930 a turbine was installed in place of the water wheel . Kannengießer was expropriated in 1938, as buildings and land from the rich own Montan GmbH for powder factory Eibia were claimed.
The mill worked after the war until the 1950s. In 1982 the municipality of Bomlitz managed to acquire the entire property. Specialists in the protection of historical monuments first secured the historical building fabric, then the dam, the pond, the mill and the miller's house were restored with considerable effort and the bakery was rebuilt. In 2010 the mill dam was made passable for fish.
Web links
- Description of the mill on the website of FORUM Bomlitz eV
- The Cordinger Mühle on the Lower Saxony Mill Road
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Cordinger Mühle according to a list by Horst Peterson ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the group "Tradition Maintenance " of FORUM Bomlitz eV
- ↑ Olaf Mußmann: Paper, powder and gentle energy. Everyday life and technology in the pre-industrial milling trade. Lit, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-89473-531-7 , p. 78ff. ( Aspects of Bomlitz Local History 1).
Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 13.5 ″ N , 9 ° 37 ′ 19.3 ″ E