Ellermühle
The Ellermühle is a former copper mill in the city of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the city region of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The building was demolished in the 1960s. Its history shows the changeable development of the industrial history of Stolberg .
16th Century
The Kupfermühle Ellermühle is one of three striking buildings that are known to have existed as early as 1548. On a depiction from that year she is shown together with the Dollart hammer and the Jan Ravensmühle . From the year 1554 there are court documents about Thewis Düllengießer zu Burgerten, Anna von Nesselraedt and Leonhard Peltz. In them it is confirmed that "that is what Mullen, who is called Ellermullen, received and accepted from our Junker blessed Herr zu Stolberg zu Lehn".
In 1574 Johann von Efferen bought the mill for 1870 Reichstaler and 100 guilder. Three years later, in August 1577, Leonhard Peltz became the owner of the mill, but leased it to Johann von Holsith in 1579. There is a document from 1584 that describes that part of the Vichtbach was diverted so that a pond could be filled. This should ensure the mill operation by creating a water reservoir.
In 1587 the ownership changed again when Gerhardt Peltz and Jakob van Eyss became owners. The document describes in detail how luxuriously the mill was furnished by Gerhardt Peltz.
On April 1, 1587, the owners of the Ellermühle leased it to Mattheis Peltzer , son of the Aachen mayor Matthias Peltzer . After his death, his widow Elisabeth Hutten continued to run the mill for a few years.
17th century
During the lease by Elisabeth Hutten, the building fabric must have suffered a lot, as extensive repairs were required in 1604. In 1605 her son Mattheis Peltzer (1581–1657) took over the leased mill. In the following years the Peltzer family bought the whole mill, as documents show that Mattheis Peltzer owned the front part and his brother Heinrich (1593–1645) owned the rear part.
Adam Thiens became the second husband of Heinrichs Peltzer's daughter-in-law Gertrud Beck. Through this marriage, the mill came into the possession of the Thiens family. Numerous renovations took place. The old mill house was completely torn down and a new large building was built. This was to the right of the demolished old building.
Documents from 1692 showed the couple's son, Johann Thiens, as the owner.
A few years earlier, Adam Thien's daughter Katharina Maria Thiens had married Jeremias Hoesch , the grandson of the family line father Jeremias Hoesch. After Adam Thien's death this led to inheritance disputes that were brought to court.
18th century
Trial documents from September 15, 1722 speak of planned garnishments and shares of the mill to be divided. The departmental possessions of Galen, the husband of Katharina Hoesch b. Thiens, auctioned. But there were still debts on the mill. So Johannes Schleicher had to receive 140 Radergulden. Galen contractually agreed to repay the debt within a year, but a 1719 file shows that the repayment was not made. The court ordered the sale of the mill and Johannes Schleicher became the new owner.
Maria Elisabeth, a daughter of Johannes Schleicher, married Johann Geyer from Aachen on October 31, 1723, whereby the mill came into the possession of the Geyer family.
In 1768 the ownership changed again, because Johann Geyer's daughter, Anna Gertraud, leased the mill to Leonhard Schleicher and his wife for 25 years. She justified this with the great distance between the mill and her home “Duysborg”. In detail, the sale concerned “the Ellermühl, with its Ofendts and Werkhäuser, mills, coal scoop, stables, fruit and Hewboden, Weyer, ponds and canals”.
In 1769 Leonhard Schleicher carried out major renovations. He had a recently demolished middle section of the building rebuilt. Both Leonhard Schleicher and his wife died before the lease expired. Her son Leonhard took over "the upper part" of the leased mill, while the guardian of the underage Carol received the lower part. After their death, the cloth manufacturer Paul Offermann acquired the Ellermühle.
19th and 20th centuries
In 1870, the Ellermühle was owned by the Belgian cloth manufacturer de Grand Ry . Adolf Bastin became factory director. His sons Hermann and Adolf ran the Sayett spinning mill in the immediate vicinity of the mill.
After the First World War , ownership changed again when the textile company E. Kummerlé from Magdeburg took over the mill.
The town of Stolberg acquired the building in 1925, with the hydropower of the Sayette spinning mill being shut down first, and the hydropower of the Ellermühle in 1931. In the meantime, it had been used on a lease by the Schroiff grain dealer. Hermann Bastin's heir sold the residential building to entrepreneur Max Blees, who built a new building. Preserving the old buildings would have been too costly. The new building was built as a modern residential and commercial building and was completed in 1957.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Ramm (editor): Mills, hammer mills and copper yards in the Vicht Valley and their owners (= contributions to the history of Stolberg, Volume 23), Stolberg 1998, ISBN 3-926830-12-3
- Karl Schleicher: From the history of the Ellermühle in Stolberg (Rhld.) , In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein , (ZAachenerGV) 66/67, 1954/55, pp. 357-364
- Hermann Friedrich Macco : History and genealogy of the Peltzer families (= contributions to the genealogy of Rhenish noble and patrician families. Vol. 3). Georgi, Aachen, 1901, p. 62ff digitized .
Web links
- Portrait on stolberg-abc.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 29.6 ″ N , 6 ° 13 ′ 30.8 ″ E