Lochmühle amusement park
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| place | Wehrheim , Germany | |||
| surface | 160,000 m² | |||
| Website | www.lochmuehle.de | |||
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Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 2 ″ N , 8 ° 35 ′ 1 ″ E
The Lochmühle leisure park is a leisure park in Wehrheim near Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , only a few kilometers away from the Saalburg .
Various attractions, an agricultural nature trail and an agricultural museum are located on around 160,000 m², including a parking lot and animal paddocks.
location
The Lochmühle is located in the Erlenbach valley at the entrance to the Köpperner Tal , in the immediate vicinity of the Limes and the former Thron monastery . The Saalburg train station of the Taunusbahn is located directly at the Lochmühle , via which the Lochmühle can be reached from the Rhine-Main area .
history
The remains of the Lochmühle small fort can be found on the grounds of the Lochmühle amusement park . These testify to the early settlement of the surrounding area.
The Lochmühle was first mentioned in 1253. Since the founding of the Throne monastery, the mill has been subject to interest. The monastery operated its own mill above the Lochmühle, the "Sandelmühle". The extension of the mill ditch of the Sandelmühle formed the mill ditch of the Lochmühle. The name Lochmühle was first used in 1767. Its meaning was "mill on the border". In forest areas, the boundaries were marked by "holed trees", ie notched trees. Before the name Lochmühle became established, the mill was named after the respective owners. Many of them are known from the monastery records. A wisdom from 1482 named the mill as "philips molne" after the owner Philip, in 1539 the mill was called "jostenmul", or mill of Jost. A document from 1571 shows that the owner Dönges Grewen from Rosbach and his wife Berta had to pay 14 eighths of grain and a carnival chicken to the monastery as an inheritance amount .
The mill was completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The reconstruction cost 230 guilders, which a widow Schärpf raised in 1694. In 1767, Philipp Colas was the owner of the Lochmühle, now known for the first time. During this time the tradition of "Heiden-Ernst" falls. The Heiden-Ernst is said to have been the leader of a band of robbers (the name "Heiden" indicates that the gang should have consisted largely of Gypsies ) who made the Taunus unsafe. On April 3, 1762, the gang is said to have ambushed the stagecoach between Cologne and Frankfurt near Würges and stole an amount of 40,000 guilders. The Wehrheim citizen militia searched the lonely homesteads of the community under Constable Conrad Griedelbach and was able to surprise and arrest the gang on the Lochmühle in their sleep. Heiden-Ernst was brought to Koblenz and executed there.
Philipp Colas' son and successor Wilhelm Colas emigrated to Russia with 800 guilders in debt. The attempt to auction half of his share of the mill turned out to be difficult, however, as the mill only had one grinder and was dilapidated. In 1804 the tenant's financial problems were reported again. Even if the tenant Konrad Heil only had to pay a small rent of 15 eighths of grain and 4 guilders for the flour mill with 15 acres of agriculture and one acre of garden land , the income was not enough.
After long negotiations under the miller Johann Heinrich Ernst, known as Jean, the inheritance was replaced by ownership. Jean Ernst paid 1,290 thalers to the Nassau Central Study Fund for this purpose . The Lochmühle burned down completely in 1856, but was rebuilt in the following years. In 1867 Ernst opened an inn as a second mainstay. In 1873 Jean Ernst's daughter Catharina Sophie Ernst married the brick manufacturer Willibrord Philipp Zwermann (called Ferdinand), the great-grandfather of the current owner. At the beginning of the 20th century, under Ferdinand Zwermann, the mill was shut down and an inn was operated instead. Later, as a restaurant, it became a destination for day trippers from the Rhine-Main area . The connection between the Taunusbahn and the Lochmühle and the reconstruction of the Saalburg contributed in particular to this . In 1906 the guest house with tower was built according to plans by the architect von Basshysen. With the First World War , tourism began to decline in the Taunus.
After the Second World War , the Lochmühlenland was used for agriculture. With the purchase of Shetland ponies, Theo Zwermann laid the foundation stone for a riding stables that temporarily housed up to 70 horses until the end of the 1970s. The playground equipment and barbecue areas that were created on the farm as additional attractions ultimately enjoyed increasing popularity. From this an independent amusement park developed.
Monument protection
The main building with a tower and adjacent outbuildings (left of the driveway) stand out as a cultural monument under monument protection .
Attractions
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Playground and slide
Squirrel family roller coaster
BBQ huts
Half-timbered house
Western Railroad
pond
fountain
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literature
- Konrad Huth: The Lochmühle Leisure Park , in: Ingrid Berg (ed.): Heimat Hochtaunus, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pp. 482-484.
- Theo Zwermann: "The Lochmühle - This is how it all began ... - Memoirs", self-published.
- Johanna Koppenhöfer: The Lochmühle near Wehrheim - From the historic mill to the amusement park ; Yearbook of the Hochtaunuskreis 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1110-8 , pp. 316–321.
- Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 675-676 .
