Eulschirbenmühle

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The Eulschirbenmühle

The Eulschirbenmühle was a deaf - mill at Weiler Eulschirben within the boundaries of the Werbacher hamlet Gamburg in Main-Tauber-Kreis in northern Baden-Württemberg . The building is a listed building .

geography

The Eulschirbenmühle is located about three kilometers downstream from Gamburg at the left foot of the slope of the Tauber valley shortly before a bend in the valley and river to the left. From a river weir goes to little under 160  m above sea level. On the left side of the NHN, a mill canal less than 200 meters long, which previously fed the mill after a few meters.

history

High water mark from 1595 on the mill building

The hamlet of Eulschirben , which is also referred to as Eulschirbenhof in some sources, is attested as molendinum Ulscirben as early as 1245 . The mill came into the possession of the Rosenbergs from Bronnbach Abbey in 1320 and has been in the hands of the owners of Gamburg Castle since the 16th century . The castle-like main building was erected in rich Renaissance forms, presumably between 1592 and 1595 by the Counts of Kronenberg; The dating is based on a high water mark on the building from 1595. At the mill, whose architect is not known, there is an important Tauber weir; a Melusinen saga written before 1839 is connected to it.

Characteristic

The mill, which is aligned parallel to the river, has a castle-like appearance and is built symmetrically to the transverse axis. It has elaborate tail gables , two dwelling houses , a stair tower is presented in the middle of the long side of the slope. The volutes of the gable, the ornaments and the cornices testify to a stately claim in the Echter style, as do the two oriels on the corners on the mountain side with Welscher hoods , which play an outstanding role in Franconian architecture. The stair tower has sloping windows that are typical of the renaissance and are adapted to the flight of stairs. Its portal with a double coat of arms above the architrave was probably only built in the Baroque ; it leads into the mill room. The interior of the mill is decorated with a lot of stucco work.

The coats of arms of the builder Kronenberg and Brendel above the entrance door on the stair tower

Conversions and extensions

Over the years the property has undergone several additions and renovations; the mill building remained unchanged. During the last renovation in 1956-1958, additions that connected the mill with the outbuilding that stood on the mountain side were removed; In addition, the historic hydraulic engineering was removed on the river side. Today the water in the canal drives a turbine to generate electricity.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LEO-BW.de: Eulschirben - living space . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  2. ^ Horst Mensching , Günter Wagner : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  3. ↑ Height according to the contour map on the background layer Topographic map from: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
  4. ↑ a b Length according to the waterway network layer from: Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )

literature

  • The art monuments of the district of Wertheim. Freiburg i.Br. 1896, p. 99 Heidelberg University Library
  • The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 , p. 355

swell

  • Bernd Dorbath: A hidden gem in a deep slumber . In: Wertheimer Zeitung of October 22, 2010
  • Not just architecturally interesting . In: Fränkische Nachrichten of October 22, 2010
  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6223 Wertheim and No. 6323 Tauberbischofsheim West

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