Engelsmühle (Gladbach)

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Angel Mill

The Engelsmühle on the new record 1891–1912

The Engelsmühle on the new record 1891–1912

Location and history
Engelsmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Angel Mill
Coordinates 51 ° 13 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 6 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 6 ″  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
Waters Gladbach
Built 1327 first mentioned
Shut down 1902 Cessation of mill operations
technology
use Oil mill , flour mill
Grinder 1 grind
drive 1 water wheel
water wheel undershot

The Engelsmühle was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the Gladbach in the city of Mönchengladbach .

geography

The Engelsmühle was located on the left side of the Gladbach, on Engelsmühlenweg. The Compesmühle was located above . The area on which the mill building stood has a height of approx. 41 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Gladbach, (GEWKZ 28614), which is also the namesake of the city of Mönchengladbach, has been an important lifeline for centuries. It supplied the residents and a total of eight mills with water and was the origin of the flourishing textile industry in Mönchengladbach. The approximately 6.3 km long Gladbach rises in Waldhausen , crossed the districts of Pesch and Lürrip and flowed into the Niers at Uedding . Today it is mostly piped and flows from Volksbadstraße at 1,904 m as an open channel along the Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf railway line to the Niers. The catchment area of ​​the body of water is 26.208 km 2 . The care and maintenance of the water is incumbent on NEW AG .

history

The Engelsmühle was the last of the eight mills on the Gladbach just before it flows into the Niers on the Abtshof. It had its first documentary mention in 1327 in the will of the Neuwerker nun Mechtildis von Helpenstein. The original oil mill was operated under-cut and belonged to the abbey . In its contemporary history, the mill also bore the names Heintges Mühle , Kleine Mühle and Niederhovener Mühle . It is known from 1833 that the mill also worked as a flour mill . Mill operations ended with the construction of the Gladbach sewer system in 1902.

gallery

  • Road sign Engelsmühlenweg

  • The Gladbach as an open channel

  • Signs show the course of the Gladbach canal

  • The Gladbach flows into the Niers

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide , 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , p. 503.
  • Robert Lünendonk: On the trail of the Gladbach and its mills . 2008, ISBN 3-8375-0030-6 , 1st edition, pp. 71-72.
  • Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills . 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pp. 66-70.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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