Etzenrather mill

Etzenrather Mühle in Mindergangelt

Location and history

Coordinates

50 ° 58 '49 " N , 5 ° 57' 59" E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '49 " N , 5 ° 57' 59" E

Location

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

District of Heinsberg

Gangelt

Waters

Rodebach

Built

Mentioned around 1492 in a border description

Shut down

1965 End of the mill activity

technology

use

Grinder

drive

undershot

Website

Website of the Etzenrather Mill

The Etzenrather mill is a former on Rodebach preferred water mill with an undershot waterwheel in Gangelt , a rural community in North Rhine-Westphalia Heinsberg district .

geography

The Etzenrather Mühle is located on the right side of the stream on Rodebach in Mindergangelt, a district of the Gangelt community. The area on which the courtyard and mill building stands is approx. 58 m above sea level . The neighboring mills are the Brommler Mühle upstream and the Roermolen downstream in Jabeek in the Netherlands .

Waters

Up until the last century, the Rodebach supplied fourteen mills with water. The stream begins at a retention basin near Siepenbusch in the town of Übach-Palenberg at an altitude of 105 m above sea level. The Rodebach has a length of 28.9 km to its confluence with the Geleenbeek near Oud-Roosteren in the Netherlands . The mouth height is 29 m above sea level. The care and maintenance of the Rodebach and its tributaries is subject to the respective neighboring cities and communities. → See also Rodebach

history

The Etzenrather Mühle takes its name from the nearby town of Etzenrade, which is now a Dutch village. The first mention comes from a border description on the occasion of a strange accident in 1492. A clergyman fell from a jetty and drowned while crossing the Rodebach. It is reported from 1591 that the mill was set on fire . In 1913 a turbine and a little later an electric motor were installed in the flour mill . Sinking water levels and increasing siltation made the mill operation more difficult. The river straightening in 1965 then brought the end of the mill activities. Today, the converted mill as a tourist cafe serves on the edge of the deer enclosure Gangelt and nature parks Selfkant .

gallery

Etzenrather mill on Rodebach
Etzenrather Mühle in Mindergangelt
Millstone in the restaurant
Residential and farm buildings
Boundary stone at the Etzenrath mill
Information board at the mill
Tranchot card 1804/05

literature

Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 244 + 247.
Wilhelm Pieper: The last mill wheel on the Rodebach. In: Heimatkalender 1995. Kreis Heinsberg, pp. 158–164.
State survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia topographic map 1:50 000 L 5102 Geilenkirchen and L 5000 Selfkant, ISBN 3-89439-417-X .

Web links

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