Dohrer mill
The Dohrer Mühle is a water mill on the Ellerbach near Ediger-Eller / Mosel . The mill is often the subject of stories and songs from the Moselle region. Today the Dohrer mill is in ruins.
The best-known traditional story in which the Dohrer mill appears is the legend Die Goldmühle im Ellerbach . It describes the origins of the mill and is about the greedy miller Alois, who makes a pact with the devil. The song from the mill in Ellerbachtal is an orally transmitted, Moselle folk song.
Song of the mill in the Ellerbachtal
- First verse
- There is a mill in the Ellerbachtal,
- It rattles so quietly to itself.
- There is a mill in the Ellerbachtal,
- It rattles so quietly.
- refrain
- And where I go and stand
- In the valley and on the heights,
- I have the mill, the mill in mind
- The mill in the Ellerbachtal.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 31.3 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 13.5 ″ E