Curious windmill

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The Curiosche windmill, rebuilt as a Dutch windmill, on the picture you can also see Erich Curio , the son of the last miller.

The Curiosche windmill was a windmill in today to the city of Magdeburg belonging Westerhüsen .

history

The mill was built in 1830 by Johann Grabau (born January 29, 1792; † October 20, 1862), the owner of the yard at Kieler Strasse 9 , on a hill on what is now Holsteiner Strasse 14 . In 1838 the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line was built east of the mill , with the railway line intersecting the access road to the mill. The miller received compensation for this amounting to 600 thalers. His son August Grabau then inherited both the mill and the farm in 1866. While August Grabau ran the farm, his unmarried brother Friedrich Grabau (born March 22, 1827), who lived in his house, ran the mill. Friedrich Grabau died on May 15, 1913 of a heart attack at the grave of his siblings. As early as 1869, however, the miller of the Westerhüsen ship mill, Andreas Curio , acquired the mill from Friedrich Grabau for the compensation from the sale and subsequent closure of the ship mill. However, it burned down in June 1875. On the site of the old mill, Christian Curio built a massive Dutch windmill for 35,000 marks . The building permit was issued on August 20, 1875. This modern mill had three grinding stages and a grain cleaning stage . The mill reached a height of 14.5 meters with a lower diameter of 10.5 meters. With the help of a compass rose, the hood of the mill automatically turned into the wind.

In 1892 Karl Fischer built the Fischersche Villa, which still exists today, near the mill . Curio resisted the construction because, in his opinion, the house was too close to the mill at a distance of only 68 meters. The Wanzleben District Office rejected the objection because the mill was located at a higher location.

Christian Curio's son, Erich Curio, worked in the mill. In 1895 he built a house in what is now Thüringer Straße 3 and ran a bakery there.

Christian Curio sold the mill in 1905 together with the Alt Westerhüsen 163 property to the Schönebeck master butcher Albert Queer and moved to the casino in Salbke, where he died on December 4, 1912. Queer had the windmill demolished in 1905. The interior of the windmill was sold to Mecklenburg. The existing field name in the area north of Welsleber Strasse, Das kleine Feld zum Windmühle , probably goes back to this mill.

The Alt Westerhüsen 163 residential building, dating from 1775, was also demolished by Queer. The 70,000 stones obtained from this were sold to the Salbker nursery owner Ast , who used it to build his farm buildings in Salbke between today's Blumenberger Strasse and Friedhofstrasse . The Dietsche department store was built on the site of the residential building and was destroyed by a bomb on April 17, 1945.

literature

  • Friedrich Großhennig: Ortschronik von Westerhüsen in the city district Magdeburg-SO. Manuscript in the Magdeburg City Archives, call number 80 / 1035n, Part I, p. 130 ff.
  • Sabine Ullrich: Industrial architecture in Magdeburg - breweries, mills, sugar and chicory industries. State capital Magdeburg 2003, p. 150.
  • The Westerhüser Mühlen and Müller. In: Evang. Parish gazette. around 1938.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westerhüser Municipal Leaflets 1924–1942, Further Westerhüser Industries
  2. ↑ Marta Doehler, Iris Reuther : Settlement development in Westerhüsen Magdeburg southeast. State capital Magdeburg 1995, p. 20.

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 3.5 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 15.9 ″  E