Grafenmühle (Thannhausen)

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Information board on the north bank of the Bromb axis about the abandoned mills

The Grafenmühle is an abandoned district of the former municipality of Thannhausen in the former Central Franconian district of Gunzenhausen . Today the area belongs to the municipality of Pfofeld in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district . Despite the lack of development today, Grafenmühle is an official district of Pfofeld.

location

The mill was located on the Brombach, southeast of Absberg and northwest of Ramsberg in the area of ​​today's Great Brombach . Neighboring Brombach mills, which were also lost due to the construction of the reservoir, were the Neumühle and the Birkenmühle .

history

The place name researcher Robert Schuh explains the mill name as "Mill of the Counts (von Hirschberg )." If the mill name actually refers to the Hirschberg Counts, the mill should have been before 1305, the year the Hirschbergs died out with Count Gebhard VII passed. However, it is mentioned for the first time in 1397, when on December 26th of that year the knight Heinrich Schenk von Geyern and his wife Dorothea, b. von Seckendorff, among other things, the "Graffen Mül located on the Brömbach" and the pond belonging to it sold to the German Order Coming Ellingen .

According to a document from 1608, the mill was vogt to the Teutonic Order in Ellingen - and valid ; however, according to a document from 1612, the Fraisch was disputed between the Teutonic Order and the Margrave-Ansbach office of Gunzenhausen. For 1732, we learn that the "Gräffen Mühl" to Absberg gepfarrt and the tithe belongs to the local parish; the Vogtei inner Ettern is perceived by the Teutonic Order in Ellingen, while the high Fraisch is now clearly with the Margravial Oberamt Gunzenhausen.

In 1792 the wasteland with the Margraviate of Ansbach became Prussian . In 1803 a flood tore the mill away; In 1804 it was rebuilt. Now, at the end of the Holy Roman Empire , the Grafenmühle with the former Principality of Ansbach was transferred to the new Kingdom of Bavaria as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1806 , where the wasteland in the Landgericht / Rentamt Gunzenhausen from 1808 to the tax district Absberg, from 1811 to the rural community Absberg and from 1818 to the Rural community Thannhausen was incorporated.

The Grafenmühle was equipped with four water wheels until the 20th century; three wheels drove grinders, one wheel a sawmill. In 1928 the Bayerlein family acquired the mill and replaced the mill wheels with a turbine system for generating electricity. In the 1970s / 1980s, the Bavarian state took over the property to build the Great Bromb axis and tore down the mill. A newly created fen as an ecological compensation area was named as the Grafenmühle nature reserve .

Population numbers

  • 1818: 12 inhabitants
  • 1824: 12 inhabitants, 1 property
  • 1867: 9 inhabitants, 3 buildings
  • 1929: 5 inhabitants
  • 1950: 13 inhabitants, 1 property
  • 1979: 7 inhabitants
  • 1961: 7 residents, 1 residential building

literature

  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Francs . Row I, Issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . Edited by Hanns Hubert Hofmann. Munich 1960.
  • Robert Schuh: Gunzenhausen. Former district of Gunzenhausen . Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 5: Gunzenhausen . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1979, especially No. 98, p. 111f.
  • A day on the Mühlenweg - sunken mills around Absberg. [Flyer of] VGN-Freizeit 2/2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Library Online
  2. ↑ Description of the location according to: District map Gunzenhausen, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Cities-Verlag o. J.
  3. ↑ Schuh, p. 111f.
  4. ↑ Schuh, p. 112.
  5. ^ Finding aids of the Staatl. Archive in Bavaria  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gda.bayern.de  
  6. ↑ This section after Schuh, p. 111.
  7. ↑ a b Schuh, p. 111
  8. ↑ Historical Atlas, pp. 230, 240 f.
  9. ^ Website of the Franconian Lake District
  10. ↑ Website of the Ansbach Water Management Authority ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wwa-an.bayern.de
  11. ↑ a b c Historical Atlas, p. 240
  12. ^ J. Heyberger and others (edit.): Topographical-statistical handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary. Munich 1867, column 1036.
  13. ↑ Parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Church in Bavaria on the right of the Rhine (1929) / 38
  14. ↑ Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census. Munich 1964, Col. 787.

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '50.6 "  N , 10 ° 54' 2.8"  E