Gladbach Mill

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The Gladbacher Mill around 1900

The Gladbacher Mühle was a flour mill in the city ​​center of Bergisch Gladbach an der Strunde .

history

Records about the mill estate as a whole go back to the year 1380. How far the Gladbach mill is also affected cannot be proven. The first lease of the Gladbacher Mühle to Thoniß in der Müllen is documented for the year 1589. In the following years it was always tenants who ground grain in the mill until Johann Jakob Odenthal acquired the entire mill property in 1805 as the owner. After his death in 1836, his grandson Johann Odenthal, the son of co-heir Urban Odenthal, ran the mill until it was bought at an auction in 1861 by Johann Krein, who was also co-heir. As the sole owner, he was now able to modernize the mill and add a brick extension so that living space for millers and the like was also created. The mill was now powered by a medium-sized water wheel five to six meters in diameter. The mill had three grinding stages, including one made of French freshwater quartz for grinding wheat . Instead of using hand sieves, flour and bran were now separated using mechanically operated bag boxes. In addition, the mill had three storerooms for storage purposes. In the course of time, the mill's yield fell sharply, as steam-powered mills were more efficient and competed more and more. After Kerin's death in 1900, his heirs had the mill modernized again, but the days of water-powered fruit mills were over. In 1906 the city of Bergisch Gladbach acquired the mill site for 40,000 marks. The following year the mill was demolished. The old school building on Odenthaler Straße, initially a Progymnasium, then a Realschule and now converted into a multi-purpose building, was built from 1907 on the site of the Gladbacher Mühle. The mill building stood directly in front of the school below the bay window on the right-hand side. The sloping terrain next to the building still indicates the old mill slope.

See also

literature

  • Determination and order for the Strunderbach, printed by Chr.Illinger, Bergisch Gladbach o. J., (it concerns the Bach order and the Bach protocol from 1823 after a copy from 1854)
  • Frank Schulte: The mills on the Strunde , Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-932326-02-4
  • Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen, On the traces of the use of water power in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg , Wiehl 1998, p. 246, ISBN 3-931251-36-5
  • Hans Leonhard Brenner : The history of the Gladbacher mill in Bergisch Gladbach , publisher Bergischer Geschichtsverein e. V., Bergisch Gladbach 2010, ISBN 3-932326-61-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills , published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV in collaboration with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, p. 86ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9

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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 31.7 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 9.3 ″  E