Embkener Mill

The Embkener Mühle , also known under the name Alte Ohligsmühle , is located in the middle of Embken in the Düren district on the Mühlengraben, which branches off from the Neffelbach at the upper entrance to Embken and flows through the middle of the village.

The mill has an overshot water wheel and a grinder . The house is used as a residential building.

Monument description

This is the actual mill building of the old Ohligsmühle in Nideggen-Embken directly on the Mühlengraben, which branches off from the Neffelbach at the upper entrance to the village and flows right through Embken. The basement is made of quarry stone or half-timbered , filled with bricks, the oldest part has a double-hinge, cross-boarded door, and a small skylight above ; Half-timbered gable on the quarry stone building on the back, overshot water wheel still in operation. All other buildings are scheduled later. The old mill is an important relic of work and technical production processes in Embken of the 18th and 19th centuries Century. Its preservation is not only in the public interest for this reason, but also for ethnographic reasons. Even if the half-timbered barn adjoining the mill at the rear and the small stable building behind it were added later, they are also included in the entry for the same reasons, as they ultimately round off the development of the production facility.

The mill was entered under No. 89 on October 4, 1985 in the list of monuments of the city of Nideggen . The Mühlengraben is entered in the list of monuments under the numbers 125, 127 and 130.

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Yearbook of the Düren District 1978, published by the Eifelverein and Düren District, Jochen Zang and Reinhard Zenz, ISSN 0342-5835 , pp. 52–60
Der Neffelbach, MD&V, Meinerzhagener Druck- und Verlagshaus, July 1987, ISBN 3-88913-402-5
Excerpt from the Düren cadastral office, the Cronenberg family (owners)