Düppelsmühle

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Düppelsmühle

The Düppelsmühle is a now disused post mill from the 16th century in Titz west of Cologne.

Location and surroundings

The mill was originally located in Efferen , today's Hürth district, on Luxemburger Straße, opposite Höninger Weg, isolated from the residential areas and about one kilometer from Effern Castle. It has been located on the Düppel, a ridge near Titz, since 1830.

History of origin

Since 1418 the city of Cologne had the undivided right of ownership to the water of the Duffesbach . They forbade any drainage for irrigation of the fields and other uses. So they failed to build a new water mill by the lord of Efferen, Dham (Adam) von Diepenbroeck.

He tried to avoid the constant quarrels between the city of Cologne and the lords of Efferen Castle over the use of the Duffesbach by applying to the sovereign, the Duke of Jülich, Wilhelm IV. , For a permit to have a windmill built in Efferen this approved in 1559. The post mill was located on Luxemburger Strasse, then known as Zülpicher Strasse, opposite the confluence of Höninger Weg and therefore not in the floodplain of the Duffesbach and also in the open field.

history

Through the mill spell , the obligation of the tenant farmers and belonging to the manorial farmers, their crops in the spell mill to be ground Squire, the lords of Efferen were the grain of approximately 2,600 ha of the villages Efferen, Fischenich and Stotzheim on site grind and needed not to turn to the mills of the city of Cologne. At that time it was the only windmill among the mills in the mayorries of Hürth and Efferen .

The mill, albeit very small, is shown on an India ink drawing by Renier Roidkin : Efferen (around 1730).

The post mill was in operation for almost two and a half centuries before it lost a large part of its customers due to the lifting of the mill ban by the French and the sale of church goods between 1805 and 1832 after the secularization in and after the French era and thus lost a large part of its customers and thus to competition with the other flour mills was exposed in the area.

Since the more than 250-year-old mill was still intact, easily dismantled and transportable, it was sold to the then 19-year-old miller's son Johann Winand Trebels from Hürth, whose father , who came from Hasselsweiler near Titz, leased a water mill in Alt-Hürth around 1826/27 would have. Since the mill he had bought had strong competition, the young miller asked the Cologne district government in February and April 1830 to demolish the mill in Efferen and rebuild it between Kirchherten and Titz. He received the concession to operate the post mill on November 3, 1830. The mill was rebuilt on the Düppel next to the Düppelsburg , a prehistoric castle complex , near Titz and received due to its proximity to the remains of the castle and the ridge known as the Düppel the name Düppelsmühle . It was operated there for another 150 years and finally shut down in 1952. The mill was destroyed in a storm on June 9, 2014. There was no corresponding insurance. The budget committee of the Bundestag released a total of 130,000 euros in June 2015. This means that the mill can be renovated.

Web links

Commons : Düppelsmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Clemens Klug, Rainer Draaf: Settlement and operation of watermills on the Gleueler Bach, chap .: Settlement of mills in Hürth by the landlords, ban mills . In: Hürther Heimat . No. 76 , 1997, pp. 24 (description of the inefficiency of the Effern windmill).
  • Rainer Draaf: The historic Efferner windmill . In: Hürther contributions . No. 87 , 2008, p. 39–48 (history of the Efferner post mill).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rainer Draaf: The historic Efferner windmill . In: Hürther Articles No. 87 . 2008 (history of the Efferner post mill p. 42).
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Draaf: The historic Efferner windmill . In: Hürther Articles No. 87 . 2008 (History of the Efferner post mill p. 46).
  3. ↑ Clemens Klug, Rainer Draaf: Settlement of mills in Hürth by the landlords, ban mills . In: Hürther Heimat No. 76 . 1997 (description of the inefficiency of the Efferner windmill; p. 24).
  4. ↑ Clemens Klug, Rainer Draaf: Settlement of mills in Hürth by the landlords, ban mills . In: Hürther Heimat No. 76 . 1997 (description of the inefficiency of the Efferner windmill; p. 24/25).
  5. ^ Image in Clemens Klug: Hürth - how it was, how it became , Steimel Verlag, Cologne o. J. (1962), p. 48
  6. ↑ a b Rainer Draaf: The historic Efferner windmill . In: Hürther Articles No. 87 . 2008 (History of the Efferner post mill p. 43).
  7. ^ Susanne Sommer: Windmills and watermills of the left Lower Rhine (directory) . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Office for Rhenish Regional Studies (Hrsg.): Mühlen am Niederrhein . Rheinland-Verlag GmbH, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1113-3 , p. 267-268 .
  8. ↑ http://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/nach-unwetter-titzer-wahrzeichen-ein-totalschaden-1.846608?fb=1
  9. ↑ http://www.radiorur.de/rur/rr/1298140/news/kreis_dueren

Remarks

  1. ↑ Probably the Horster mill , as the miller's daughter there married the miller Herrmann Müller on February 14, 1829 ( Valentine's Day ), who was named as the owner in 1837. Hans Desery, Rainer Draaf: History of the watermills on the Duffesbach in (Alt-) Hürth , in Hürther Heimat No. 76, p. 68

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 8.2 "  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 29.4"  E