Gronauer mill

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The Gronauer Mühle towards the end of the 19th century; Opaque color painting by Wilhelm Scheiner

Gronauer Mühle is a district in the city ​​center of Bergisch Gladbach . Until 1904 there was a flour mill on the Strunde , which gave the district its name.

history

The first documented mention of the mill comes from 1413, when Duke Adolf I pledged the old Bensberg Castle , the Bensberg and Herkenrath parishes and the Gronauer Mühle. On 4 February 1483 the Gronauer Hof with its grinding mill and the now established on the second gradient was grinding cottas of Everhard of Schlebusch and his wife Catherine in leasehold given. The heirs of Dietrich von Schlebusch sold their lease right on August 15, 1588 to the married couple Gottfried von Steinen and Maria von Gürtzgen von Haus Lerbach .

After the book mill was no longer sufficient to supply the growing number of settlers, the Gronauer mill became the central fruit and grain mill in Gladbach and the surrounding area. The Counts of Berg provided them with an extensive compulsory meal. The fact that there were always arguments about this compulsory meal is only understandable, because for many of the farmers who were subordinate to it there were much shorter distances to other mills. Around 1600, therefore, a legal dispute broke out between the brothers David and Dietrich von Zweiffel in Zweiffelstrunden and the then Gronau leaseholder Gottfried von Steinen about forced meals . After about two decades of litigation, the court chamber decided in favor of Steinens and confirmed the existing law.

Around 1870, around 121 acres of land belonged to the Gronauer Mühle, including the Lange Wiese, the Schlemmerwiese, the small Wiesgen and the Gronauer Mühlenbusch, which became the Gronauer Waldsiedlung . At that time it was owned by Countess Karolina von Geyr-Schweppenburg. After her death on February 18, 1892, Josef von Geyr-Schweppenburg inherited the mill, who sold it to Richard and Anna Zanders in 1897 . They demolished the mill in 1904.

One of its most famous residents was the Lucas-Pitter , a Bergisch Gladbach original .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach city history in street names , publisher. Stadtarchiv Bergisch Gladbach and Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, pp. 132f., ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  2. ^ A b c 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. 118ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9
  3. ↑ In the old spelling Adolf VII. Of Jülich-Berg called
  4. ↑ Herbert Stahl (editor) and others: " Gronau ", Bergisch Gladbach 2007, p. 176ff. ISBN 978-3-932326-51-6

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
  • Anton Jux: The Bergisch Botenamt, the history of Bergisch Gladbach up to the Prussian era , published by the Culture Office of the City of Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach 1964

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '59.2 "  N , 7 ° 7' 15.7"  E