Grindelmühle

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Grindelmühle

The Grindelmühle (also Gründelmühl , later often Schönbacher Mühle ) is a former water mill on the Ohm near Schönbach , a district of the Central Hessian town of Kirchhain in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district . The grain mill , which was shut down in 1952, is the last remaining building in the Grindel settlement (also known as Grindeln , Grindiln or Grindele ), which was probably destroyed in the 14th century.

A Grindel mill is first mentioned in the 11th century as the property of the Fulda monastery . A village settlement of Grindeln is proven for 1325, when the knight Volpert Hobeherr sold a Gülte from the mill to the Teutonic Order in Marburg . In 1355 the mill and the estate were mentioned together when Volpert Lützekolbe the Elder gave up his income to the Teutonic Order. The settlement fell into desolation before 1430, probably as early as the 14th century.

The mill was sold to the Teutonic Order in 1423 (according to another source: 1329) by the Marburg citizen Steinmeler . For the period before 1439 and the year 1482, the Niederwald community on the other side of the river sued against the elevation of the mill. Almost two centuries later, the community sued again in 1630 after the mill weir had been increased, which threatened to swamp the local meadows and impaired the operation of the Niederwälder mill. Their millers were previously also repeatedly in dispute with the Grindelmühle. In the course of this, the Landgrave issued an order to lower the weir of the Grindelmühle and the Anzefahrer Ordensmühle further downstream .

The Grindelmühle burned down in the Thirty Years War in 1640 and was not rebuilt until 1709. At this time the Niederwälder millet mill was built on the opposite side of the river. In 1809 the facility, now known as Schönbacher Mühle , was leased to the state in hereditary line.

In 1854 the Grindelmühle had three undershot grinding courses with an attached beater . In 1885 14 people lived on the property.

The grinding operation was stopped in 1952 when construction work on the flood retention basin in Kirchhain / Ohm began. Since then, the Ohm has been flowing past the mill in a lower bed some distance away. The water rights were given up with the closure and deleted in 1984.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Grindelmühle, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Working group for rural culture: Mills between Vogelsberg and Burgwald. Cölbe 2003, p. 81
  3. ↑ a b c d e City Council of Kirchhain (Ed.): Kirchhain. City of Ohm and Wohra in words and pictures. Giessen 1977, pp. 207f.
  4. ^ Arthur Wyss : Hessisches Urkundenbuch: From 1300 to 1359. S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1884, p. 607
  5. ^ WA Eckhardt, H. Klingelhöfer (ed.): Peasant life in the age of the Thirty Years' War. The Stausebacher Chronicle of the Caspar Price 1636–1667. With an introduction by G. Menk. Marburg 1998, 44.
  6. ^ Niederwald, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 4, 2013 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 37.6 ″  E