Big Wellbachsmühle

Large Wellbachsmühle, view from the northeast

The Große Wellbachsmühle is a listed mill yard in the town of Gernrode, part of the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The mill is located at the address Am Bach 2 (until December 31, 2011 Bachstraße ) northeast of Gernrode am Wellbach and is registered as a watermill in the local monument register.

Architecture and history

The mill property has probably been in use as a mill location for a very long time. There is a mill building built around 1700 in half-timbered construction. It is covered by a hipped roof. The wheel room built from rubble stones has also been preserved from the mill . The mill pond south of the mill and the channel have also been preserved. In 1759 Prince Viktor II. Friedrich von Anhalt bought the mill.

The Mühlenhof, which is laid out on a triangular floor plan, also includes a house built in the second half of the 19th century and a quarry stone building used as a stable.

Gustav Müller owned the mill until 1917 . The mill was still in operation after the Second World War . It was operated by Mr Amonat from 1946 to 1952 , but then shut down. The water wheel was later dismantled to provide access to apartments .

In connection with the mill, the use by a joinery is also mentioned. In 1950 the carpenter Paul Kunze handed over the joinery to his son Walter Kunze. The original production of furniture decreased. Instead, laundry chest racks were produced, repairs carried out and coffins made. In 1977 the property was sold to VEB Polsterwaren Gernrode (VEB POWA), which set up a warehouse.

Currently (as of 2014) parts of the homestead are in urgent need of renovation.

literature

• Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 168 f.
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 114.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 169
2. ^ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 59
3. ^ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 66

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '46.9 "  N , 11 ° 9' 8.9"  E