Frinztalmühle

Frinztalmühle (2020)

The Frinztalmühle (formerly also Frinzthalmühle ) was a water mill on the Polenz near Porschdorf in Saxon Switzerland .

history

Former inn of the Frinztalmühle

As early as 1564, Elector August allowed the residents of Waltersdorf to build a water mill in the Polenz Valley, about 2 kilometers to the west. The location was below the Frinzberg, from which the current name Frinztalmühle is derived. However, the mill did not come to be built, as both the castles of Hohnstein Castle , the official fishermen in the Hohnstein office and the landlords of Prossen impaired fishing, the game population in the surrounding forests and the operation of the Porschdorfers below the planned mill location Mill feared and intervened against the building. It was not until 1866 that Heinrich Mitzscherling built the Frinztalmühle as a board mill . In the course of the tourist development of Saxon Switzerland, Mitzscherling added a smaller guesthouse to the mill as early as 1867, which was given full inn justice from 1888 . The official residence (Hohnsteiner Straße 54b), which was in front of the actual mill area and still exists today as a residential building, served as an inn.

Mitzscherling's mill had to be foreclosed in 1889 because too many competing companies were working in the area and economic operation was not possible in the long term. In 1890 the area was taken over by the Hille & Müller Kaltwalzwerk und Galvanik company from Großschönau in North Bohemia , which also established the production of refined metal strips in the Frinztalmühle. For this, the mill site was built over with new factory buildings. In 1920 the restaurant business ended. The inn building was converted into a residential building, into which employees of the neighboring Bandzackenfabrik moved. Production was transferred to public ownership in 1972 and stopped in 1991 as a result of the economic changes following German reunification . Today the area of the Frinztalmühle is used commercially by various small companies. The former inn building is a listed building.

Remarks

↑ The various information that can be found according to which the Frinztalmühle already existed in the 16th century are incorrect. These details relate to the Porschendorfer Mühle am Lachsbach located below. At the end of the 18th century, there was no mill at its current location on the mile sheets either.

literature

Manfred Schober : The mills of Saxon Switzerland - right Elbe area. Monographs on Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland Volume 2, Berg- und Naturverlag Rölke, Dresden 2009

Web links

Commons : Frinztalmühle (Porschdorf) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

50.94701 14.13414Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '49.2 " N , 14 ° 8' 2.9" E

[1] The various information that can be found according to which the Frinztalmühle already existed in the 16th century are incorrect. These details relate to the Porschendorfer Mühle am Lachsbach located below. At the end of the 18th century, there was no mill at its current location on the mile sheets either.