Former bridge mill

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Former bridge mill

The building Brückenstraße 4 in Mühlheim am Main is a historic mill that is under monument protection and is generally referred to as the former bridge mill (or, for short: bridge mill ). Along with the water tower, it is one of the town's landmarks.

history

The mill, located immediately south of the Rodau bridge, was built around 1545 and was first mentioned in a document in 1576. The first recorded miller was Thomas Paul (1613–1687). From 1687 to 1855 the mill was owned by the Faller family. After changing owners in the meantime, it was acquired by the Krebs family in 1871, who modernized it technically. A separate system for separating bran from flour and a short time later a device that crushed the grain between metal roller tracks and thus enabled a significantly higher degree of fineness of the flour was installed. The ground grain was transported by elevators, the forerunners of today's assembly lines. The capacity of this system was several times higher than that of the old stone grinding aisles, so that it was not necessary to get up at night to pour grain into the funnel.

After the death of Antonie Krebs, the last miller, the city of Mühlheim acquired the mill in 2014.

Buildings and furnishings

water wheel

The half-timbered mill building is provided with an undershot Zuppinger water wheel with a diameter of 5.60 meters. Due to the dismantling of the waterway in 1926 and the demolition of the agricultural outbuildings in 2015, the mill is now located within dense residential buildings in a city center location that is becoming increasingly dense.

The grinder is still in a grindable condition. There is also a squeeze chair for oats and a shot passage for feed grain, which are still used today. This makes the bridge mill the last functioning mill in the Offenbach district .

The aim is to use it as a museum in the future. The bridge mill is a listed building and is part of the route of industrial culture Rhein-Main Hessischer Oberer Main .

literature

  • Dagmar Söder: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Hesse, Offenbach district . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-528-06237-1 , pp. 218 .

Web links

Commons : Former Bridge Mill  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The bridge mill. In: geschichtsverein-muehlheim.net. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Mühlenwanderweg of the city of Mühlheim am Main. (PDF; 7.1 MB) In: muehlheim.de. Magistrat der Stadt Mühlheim am Main, April 2008, accessed on October 7, 2018 .
  3. ^ Press office of the city of Mühlheim: Bridge mill in municipal property. In: muehlheim.de. November 26, 2014, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Local route guide No. 23 of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main Hessischer Oberer Main. (PDF; 3.6 MB) In: krfrm.de. KulturRegion Frankfurt RheinMain gGmbH, August 2007, accessed on October 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Marcus Reinsch: Mühlheim takes over the bridge mill. In: op-online.de . November 26, 2014, accessed October 6, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 26.1 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 57.5 ″  E