Eickesmühle

Eickesmühle
Former location of the Eickesmühle
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 9 '36 "  N , 6 ° 27' 30"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '36 "  N , 6 ° 27' 30"  E
Location	Germany  North Rhine-Westphalia City of Mönchengladbach Rheydt
Waters	Niers
Built	1442 first documented mention
Shut down	1943 Destroyed by aerial bombs
technology
use	Oil mill , flour mill and grinder
Grinder	1 grind , 1 oil press
drive	water wheel
water wheel	undershot

The Eickesmühle was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the upper reaches of the Niers in the Mönchengladbach district of Rheydt in the administrative district of Düsseldorf .

geography

The Eickesmühle was located on the left side of the Niers, on Römerstrasse, in the Mönchengladbach district of Rheydt. Above was the stone mill , below the Zoppenbroich mill . The area on which the mill building stood is at a height of approx. 52 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Niers (GEWKZ 286) in its old river bed supplied numerous mills with water for centuries until the river was straightened . The Niers rises in Kuckum , a district of the city of Erkelenz . The Niers has a total length of 117.668 km and a total catchment area of ​​1,380.630 km ² up to its confluence with the Meuse near Gennep (Netherlands) . The source is 73  m above sea level. NN , the mouth at 9  m above sea level. NN . The Niersverband is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The Eickesmühle was first mentioned in a document in 1442, when its owner Gerhard, Herr zu Rheydt and Ritter von Heppendorf , gave the mill to Coen and his wife Gertrud to the owners of the Eickeshof as a lease . The mill up deme Eyckholtz was a pure oil mill that had to provide a lease of 35 pounds of oil. The originally small mill was expanded into an independent courtyard in 1700. In 1842 it consisted of an oil, grinding and grain mill , which a decade later was also used as a log mill. From 1849 the offshore mill pond could be used as a swimming pool . In 1856 the profitability of the mill was increased considerably with the installation of a turbine . During the Second World War , the mill was hit by aerial bombs and completely destroyed. The nearby industrial park An der Eickesmühle is still reminiscent of the former mill.

gallery

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  Street name An der Eickesmühle

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  Today's kidney course

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  Sign of the Niersverband

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  Weir on the Niers

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  Bus stop Eickesmühle

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  Overflow at the weir

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  The Eickesmühle on the map new recording from 1912

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  The Eickesmühle on the original cadastral map from 1846

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  The Eickesmühle on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 489-490.
• Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills 1st edition November 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pages 51-52, 99-102,.

Web links

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

• Fishing on the Niers
• Interesting facts about the Niers

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
3. ↑ 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.  
4. ↑ http://www.Niersverband.de/