Fronmühle (Haßloch)

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Fronmühle - with Speyerbach and Wehr - view from the west

The Fronmühle is the oldest water-powered mill in Haßloch ( Bad Dürkheim district , Rhineland-Palatinate ); it was still in operation until the death of the last miller in 2012.

The mill, which was originally called Kameral-Frohnde-Mühle and was built as an irregular four-sided courtyard , was mentioned as a Frondemühle in the property register of the Weißenburg monastery as early as 1255 . It was equipped with the ban right (Mühlenrecht - Mühlenzwang) of the three villages Haßloch, Böhl and Iggelheim , whose inhabitants were forced to have their grain milled there. From 1330 it was owned by the Electoral Palatinate . From 1380 on, the Counts of Leiningen were half involved. Later she went all over in Leininger possession, an annual ground rent had to be paid by 45 Malter grain to Electoral Palatinate. In the Palatinate War of Succession (1688 to 1697) the mill was burned down by the French and rebuilt after a few years by the Electoral Palatinate. After a fire in 1868 had only destroyed the attached sawmill, the Fronmühle burned down completely again in 1882. Since 1898 it was owned by the Steinmüller family from Haßloch, who ran an inn there after the reconstruction. Across from the mill, Friedrich Steinmüller built a larger inn "Zur Fronmühle" in 1906/08, which is still in use today.

The two-and-a-half-storey mill building is marked 1883 and serves as a residential building. A brick barn was built in 1867. The mill was rebuilt or supplemented in 1881 and 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Timeline (PDF; 1.1MB) of the Fronmühle based on Rudolf Walter, Heimatverein Geinsheim, accessed on March 16, 2019.

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Web links

Commons : Fronmühle  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 32.7 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 49.8"  E