Village mill (Verl)
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 Dorfmühle, north-westerly viewing direction |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 53 '8 " N , 8 ° 30' 26" E | |
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 Germany
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| Waters | Ölbach | |
| Built | 1745 | |
| Shut down | 1980s | |
| Status | listed | |
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| use | Watermill | |
| Grinder | up to three grinds | |
| water wheel | overshot (no longer present) | |
The village mill , also known as the old village mill , is a listed watermill in the town of Verl in the Gütersloh district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is the oldest mill in the Verler city area. The half-timbered facility had been in operation as a grinding mill since 1745 and was shut down in the 1980s. The building has been entered in the municipal list of monuments since 1991 as monument number 39 .
location
The village mill is located on the northern edge of the Verler town center. It is located on the Ölbach , a body of water belonging to the Ems river system , which rises in the Senne near Stukenbrock and flows into the Wapel in the north of the Rheda-Wiedenbrücker district of Lintel . The 29.6-kilometer-long Ölbach passes the mill after about 15.8 kilometers of flow.
The village mill is about a hundred meters northwest of the Catholic parish church of St. Anna , the Catholic cemetery in Verls is immediately west of the building.
architecture
The village mill is a two-story, high - pedestal half-timbered building with a half- hip roof . The roof is equipped with gable trapezoids, which were erected on profiled, slightly protruding beam heads. On the eastern eaves there is a dwelling and a loading hatch . The development of the property clearly reflects the historical peasant living, working and production conditions and is therefore considered an important contemporary document for the history of the city of Verl.
At the level of the road bridge in front of the mill there is a statue of St. John Nepomuk , whose also listed base dates from 1752. However, the reconstructed figure is of modern origin.
history
The village mill is the oldest mill in the Verler city area. Already in a document from 1370 kept in the State Archives in Münster there is a reference to a "molen to Verlo" and thus to a predecessor of today's mill. The current building has a half-timbered core that is said to go back to 1598. The building has been in operation as a grinding mill since 1745, was in the possession of the Counts of Rietberg for many decades and at that time was subject to compulsory milling . The mill , which is mainly used for processing buckwheat , owes its current appearance to an extensive renovation in 1819 which, in addition to work on the stream and the building itself, also included the construction of the flood system and the wheel chair.
The village mill became the property of the local Wester-Ebbinghaus family in 1852, where it is still located today. In 1886 the transmitter mill builder Christoph Brinkord renewed the wooden and iron parts of the drive. In 1893 an attached sawmill was built with a boiler house and high chimney, in the course of which the grinding mill was equipped with a turbine . The overshot water wheel was probably dismantled in 1916. After the Second World War there was initially still a brisk grinding operation, but from 1964 onwards the village mill was only used by the tenants for their own use. The property was finally leased to a building materials dealer at the beginning of the 1980s, and since then the mill has stopped operating and the technical equipment has been dismantled. A horticultural materials store has been located in the building since 2004. However, the mill has been empty again since 2013.
literature
- Günter Potthoff: From the history of the watermills in Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, Verl and Hövelhof , Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, 1995
- Annette Huss: The village mill in Verl and a dispute over access to the Ölbach . In: District of Gütersloh (Hrsg.): Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Gütersloh. Gütersloh 2006, pp. 46–49
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Monument index card of the municipality of Verl zur Verler village mill
- ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ↑ Malte Möhr: Discovering Verl. Exploring nature and history . plv-Verlag, Mammendorf 2006, ISBN 3-86611-080-4 .
- ↑ a b Annette Huss: The village mill in Verl and a dispute over access to the Ölbach . In: District of Gütersloh (Hrsg.): Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Gütersloh. Gütersloh 2006, pp. 46–49
- ↑ Günter Potthoff: From the history of the watermills in Holte-Stukenbrock Castle, Verl and Hövelhof , Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, 1995