Goetersmühle

Goetersmühle
Tranchot map from 1806
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 15 '32 "  N , 6 ° 23' 25"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '32 "  N , 6 ° 23' 25"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Viersen City of Viersen
Waters	Dorfer Bach
Built	First mentioned in 1246
Shut down	around 1900 sale and demolition
technology
use	Grain mill
Grinder	1 grind
drive	Watermill
water wheel	undershot

The Goetersmühle in the town of Viersen was a water mill with an undershot water wheel .

Mills in Viersen

In the past centuries there were a total of 18 mills in the municipality of Viersen. Four of them were used as hammer mills . These were operated by horse power. There were also two windmills , the Hoser and Hüsterfeld windmills , both of which were privately owned.

It was different with the watermills. The pen St. Gereon in Cologne had the basic rule of Viersen and the water rights on the streams in Viersen. The construction of watermills required his approval. The monastery granted mill rights as a hereditary fiefdom and received an annual tenancy from them. This had to be delivered to the parish office of St. Remigius. These documents show that there were twelve water mills in Viersen as early as 1246. All mills, with the exception of the monastery mill , paid a sum (about one hundredweight) of malt annually as loan interest. In the glory of Viersen there was no pressure to mill . All farmers could have milled wherever they wanted.

These twelve mills were on:

• " Dorfer Bach ": Kaisermühle , Kimmelmühle , Goetersmühle, Biestenmühle and Schricksmühle
• " Hammer Bach ": Plinzenmühle , Schnockesmühle , Sgoedenmühle , Bongartzmühle, Hüstermühle and Hammer Mühle
• " Rintger Bach ": Klostermühle

geography

The Goetersmühle buildings were located on Goetersstrasse in the town of Viersen in the Viersen district. In front of the mill was a pond , which was fed by the village stream and whose water level was approx. 44 m above sea level. Below the Goetersmühle was the Biestenmühle, above the Kimmelmühle.

The Dorfer Bach supplied five mills with water for centuries. It is partially channeled today. The mill ponds are all filled up except for the pond of the Kaisermühle. The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the water and soil association of the Middle Niers, which is based in Grefrath .

history

The Goetersmühle east of the Remigius Church has been known by name since 1345. There is evidence that the Goeters family worked on this mill for 560 years. At the grain mill with an undershot water wheel, the third of four wooden bridges in Viersen led over the Dorfer Bach. The previously unimportant Goetersmühle developed into a powerful mill in the 19th century after it had received a steam engine . Around 1900 it was sold and demolished because it stood in the way of the construction of Kaiser´s chocolate factory. With the mill, the pond disappeared from the scene.

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. Krefeld 1998, pp. 511-523.
• Ferdinand Dohr: About the water being in the old Viersen. In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Kempen-Krefeld , 25th episode / 1974, pp. 47–55.

Web links

Commons : Goetersmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Water and Soil Association of the Middle Niers