Dahlmühle (Heinsberg)

Dahlmühle (Heinsberg)
The Dahlmühle in Heinsberg once stood on the tennis court
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 3 '30 "  N , 6 ° 5' 52"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '30 "  N , 6 ° 5' 52"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Heinsberg Heinsberg
Waters	Worm , boy worm, mill channel
Built	before 1461
Shut down	1914
technology
use	Oil and grinder mill
Grinder	1 grind 1 oil press
drive	1 water wheel
water wheel	undershot

The Dahlmühle was a watermill on the Junge Wurm , in the town of Heinsberg in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The Dahl mill had its location on the boys worm , the mill canal, on Klevchen in the town of Heinsberg. The property on which the mill building stood was approx. 44 m above sea ​​level . Above was the Schafhausen grain mill , below was the location of the town mill in Heinsberg.

Waters

The Junge Wurm was a body of water that ran more or less parallel to the Wurm . The junction from the Wurm was in Nirm, a district of the city of Geilenkirchen . Here the worm has a height of 54 m above sea level. The river Junge Wurm, also known as the Kleine Wurm , flowed in a north-northwest direction via Randerath , Horst , Porselen , Dremmen , Grebben , Heinsberg , Kempen and Karken across the German - Dutch border towards Vlodrop and empties at an altitude of 29 m above sea level on Dutch territory into the Rur . It was a natural body of water in which humans had a hand in many places. The Junge Wurm was connected to the Heinsberg moat , the mill canal, the Liecker brook and the mill brook . This composite body of water served for surface drainage and the benefit of the people. For centuries there were around 15 water mills on the Junge Wurm, with a slope of 26 m between Randerath and Karken. With the worm straightening in the 1960s and 1970s, the young worm disappeared from the maps . Instead, drainage channels and trenches were created. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of 355.518 km ² .

history

The Dahlmühle is probably the youngest of the three Heinsberg mills. In 1457, the provost of the noble women's monastery in Heinsberg, Johann von Brachelen , built a mill in the Bruch immediately in front of the city ​​wall . This was described as follows: Item, die Moelen In dem Dall vur der Statt. In 1561 the mill was in the hands of the sovereign . The mill, together with the town mill, was made into a compulsory mill for the urban area and parts of the villages of Aphoven and Laffeld . In 1808 the mill was sold to the cloth manufacturer Trappmann during the French era , but it continued to operate as a grain mill . After a fire in 1880, the mill was transferred to the wicker manufacturer Schleicher. The drive through the water wheel in 1890 by a turbine replaced. After a steam engine was installed in 1914 , the stowage right was given up. The buildings were destroyed in the Second World War . After the reconstruction, the wicker factory was relocated in the course of urban redevelopment . Today the area has been converted into a tennis court .

gallery

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  Heinsberg on the first recording from 1843

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  The Dahlmühle in Heinsberg on the new recording from 1893

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  The Dahlmühle in Heinsberg on the tranchot card 1806/1807

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 305-306.
• Heinrich Tischelbäcker: The Heinsberger Mühlenkanal home calendar of the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg 1962, page 128-134, 1963, page 142-144.
• Hubert Berens: Die Talmühle zu Heinsberg home calendar of the district of Heinsberg 1987, page 57-68

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

Commons : Dahlmühle (Heinsberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the city of Heinsberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.wver.de/