Friedrichstaler mill
The Friedrichstaler Mühle is a historic flour mill in the large district town of Stutensee , north of Karlsruhe , on the course of the Heglach at about 110 m above sea level. NN
This mill was the first foreign commercial investment in the village of Friedrichstal, founded 28 years earlier by Huguenots , and originally also the first grain mill in the lower Osthardt. In addition to the grinding right, the miller was given important water law obligations both for the annual spring flood and for the sufficient water supply for agriculture in the region during dry periods from Margrave Karl III. Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach transferred, a novelty at the time.
history
The Friedrichstaler watermills
The mill letter in the water book of the regional council of North Baden shows that as early as February 1727 Margrave Karl zu Baden granted the miller Adam Friedrich Dittinger zu Singen permission to build a mill on the Heglach. The mill at that time had two grinding stages and one tanning stage. The approval granted was linked to numerous conditions. The miller had to pay a one-off 100 Reichstaler , buy a clock for the church, deliver eighteen Malter (1 Malter was around 150 pounds) of well-cleaned rye every year, and open all weirs if there was a flood above the mill .
Inextricably linked with the operation of the mill was the construction and maintenance of the weirs in the Pfinz , Heglach and Gießbach rivers . The weirs that already existed in front of the Friedrichstaler Mühle were renewed and restored at the expense of the state with the approval of the Margravine and the Margrave of Baden in 1712, 1738 and 1754.
In 1740 the mill became the property of Friedrich Mayer, later to that of August Mayer, who expanded the mill in 1751 by building a hemp grater and in 1799 by adding an additional grinding course. In 1839 he repaired the collapsed Stafforter weir in the Pfinz region. In the same year Wilhelm Mayer took over the mill. In 1842, the municipality of Spöck , the widow Mayer and her son Wilhelm agree that the municipality of Spöck may use all the water running in the Heglach to irrigate their meadows, both for the first hay harvest and for the second. In addition, both parties share the future costs of maintaining the Stafforter Wehr.
In 1860 the communities of Blankenloch , Spöck, Friedrichstal and Graben conclude a settlement with the guardian , Löwenwirt Hof von Friedrichstal, of the underage mill owner Carl Mayer about the future water level of the Stafforter weir. In 1867 Josef Steiner von Weingarten bought the mill from Carl Mayer. Due to a comparison made by the Stutensee domain, the factory owners Steiner von Friedrichstal, Elser and Geitz von Rußheim , Blankenloch and Graben in November 1874, which enables the domain to water the meadows 21 days after the Ohmed harvest, the Friedrichstaler mill has to further restrict its milling operations accept.
1887: With the approval of the Karlsruhe District Council, Ludwig Steiner replaces the two undershot water wheels of the mill with a 29 hp turbine . The mill changed hands again in 1891. Fritz and Otteo Krämer bought it for 80,000 marks, and one year later they built a machine house on the other bank of the Heglach. The power generated by the turbine is transmitted to the mill transmission by means of conical gears and gear train . On the one hand, the power is used to drive the mill, and on the other, by switching on a generator, it is used to generate electricity for one's own electricity needs.
During the Second World War, the mill was completely destroyed by fire bombs. Master miller Hermann Wachter rebuilds the mill after the end of the war. Finally, on August 10, 1948, the mill passed into the possession of Hans Michenfelder, Hermann Wachter's son-in-law. In 1963, Hans Michenfelder had a modern concrete silo built with a height of 33 m and a capacity of over 1,100 t of grain.
In September 1977 the mill burns. The production area, including an administration and sales building, are destroyed by flames.
The new building from 1977
In the same year the mill is sold to the Grands Moulins de Strasbourg mill and rebuilt a year later. In 2000, Rheintal Mühlen GmbH was founded in Stutensee as a 100% subsidiary of the Strasbourg parent company, with the simultaneous takeover of all rights and obligations of Friedrichstaler Mühle.
The grain, now exclusively wheat, is no longer ground with the help of water power, but with a modern roller mill. The daily output of the mill is around 300 tons of wheat flour.
The mill has a drying system as well as cooling units that keep the grain healthy. The associated grain store can hold up to 8,000 tons of grain.
Due to a technical defect, a fire started in the flour silo of the mill on April 9, 2015. The damage resulted in months of production downtime. People were not injured in the fire. After the fire damage had been repaired, production at the Friedrichstaler mill was resumed towards the end of the year.
Today's mill is connected to traffic via the A 5 , Bruchsal exit , and the B 35 and B 36.
- The Friedrichstaler Mill (2015)
literature
- Heinz Bender: Past and current events: Blankenloch, Büchig and Stutensee Castle ; Edited by the Stutensee community with contributions by Klaus Demal and Hanspeter Gaal; Original edition 872 pages Stutensee 1995
- Dieter H. Hengst: The old streets still ...; Photo book "Alt-Friedrichsthal" , published by Heimat- and Huguenot Museum Alt Friedrichsthal, 2nd revised edition December 2000, page 193 f
- Oskar Hornung: Friedrichstal; History of a Huguenot community; for the 250th anniversary / 1949 - 2nd supplementary edition - Friedrichstal: Mayor's office, 1974
- Günther Hornung and Bertold Gorenflo: “Friedrichstal - Milestones from three centuries”, published in 2009, 200 pages
Web links
- Nature in Stutensee, especially the Stutensee water educational trail, additional information board at the mill
- Rheintal Mühlen Friedrichstal - roller mill for 150 years
- The Stutensee water nature trail and the Heglach - Alte Bach trough structure
Individual evidence
- ↑ City administration of Stutensee: Restoration of the historical weir of the Heglach near the Friedrichstal mill
- ^ Website of the company Grands Moulins de Strasbourg
- ↑ Thomas Riedel: Friedrichstaler Mühle on www. meinstutensee.de , April 9, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 26.6 " N , 8 ° 29 ′ 6.4" E