Fritzdorf windmill
The Fritzdorfer Windmühle , also called the Fritzdorf Windmill Tower , is one of the few surviving windmill buildings in the Kottenforst region and the neighboring areas. It is located south of the town of the same Fritzendorf in the municipality Wachtberg in North Rhine-Westphalia Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , right on the border of the districts rings and Leimer village on a hill and is the symbol of the village. The mill building stands as a monument under monument protection .
In 1842, the windmill was built as a three-story stone tower windmill ( Tower Dutchman). The building material, basalt , greywacke and bricks , came from the ruins of the ruined Sommersberg Castle . The mill had a hood that could be rotated over a codend , including two grinding stages (grinding floor), which allowed the grinding of grain and peeling of barley. The grain was stored on the floor between the ground floor (miller's apartment) and the grinder. Builder was a Westphalian Müller journeyman named Julius Robrecht from Würgassen (county Hoexter ), which on its roll had come to Fritzendorf and the first of the newly built mill Müller settled there. Later, after marrying a Fritzdorf woman in 1839/40, he built a house with a barn and stables next to the mill, to which some land still belonged, as well as a bakery and dug a 27 m deep well . On the ground floor, in the former miller's apartment, oil was now made from rapeseed .
Around 1870 Josef Robrecht, one of Julius Robrecht's sons, took over the mill, but the profitable years came to an end. The wind-dependent mill was no longer economical enough to keep pace with the newly built watermills on the Ahr. The mill had to be shut down in 1895 - in the same year Julius Robrecht died at the age of 84. In 1899 the mill became the property of the parish renter , who impoverished the miller. In 1907 Meckenheim, together with the communities of Altendorf , Ersdorf and Lüftelberg, became the owners of the old mill and resumed milling operations for another two years. At the turn of the century, the hood was in a poor condition. In 1909 the final shutdown and the laying down of all auxiliary buildings took place. The mill inventory was sold. The winged cross, which turned in the wind for years, and the hood deteriorated over time.
In 1978 the mill tower was renovated to preserve it and stop it from falling into decline. First and foremost, the upper wall was repaired, a flat conical roof was put on and the stairs and floors were renewed. The successfully completed renovation was celebrated on September 2nd and 3rd, 1978 with a festival at the windmill. Even if the former mill character was no longer preserved due to the lack of the hood with winged cross, the preservation of the 136 year old tower building could be guaranteed.
Today the mill serves as a place for celebrations and events and can be rented by the municipality of Wachtberg.
Web links
- Entry on Fritzdorfer Windmühle (Fritzdorf windmill tower) in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council
Footnotes
- ↑ List of monuments of the municipality of Wachtberg , number A 167
- ↑ Also Sterz; a bar system on the back of the canopy to turn it into the wind.
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '12.7 " N , 7 ° 5' 37.4" E