Gustorfer Mill

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Gustorfer Mill

Front, on the left the mill building with grain silo (built in 1913), on the right the former miller's house (built in 1749)

Front, on the left the mill building with grain silo (built in 1913), on the right the former miller's house (built in 1749)

Location and history
Gustorfer Mühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Gustorfer Mill
Coordinates 51 ° 3 '53 "  N , 6 ° 34' 28"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '53 "  N , 6 ° 34' 28"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
District coat of arms of the Rhine district Neuss.svg Rhine district of Neuss
DEU Grevenbroich COA.svg Grevenbroich - Gustorf
Waters Erft
Built First mentioned in a document in 1386 (or 1335?)
Shut down 1913 (hydropower), 1961 (mill operation)
Status Mill wheel and grinder dismantled, water turbine available, building rededicated to commercial building
technology
use Grain mill , after 1913 run-of-river power station
drive Watermill
water wheel Formerly 3 x undershot removed by 1913 and by Francis turbine replaced

The Gustorfer Mühle (more rarely also called Gindorfer Mühle ) is a former water mill on the Erft near the Grevenbroich district of Gustorf in the Rhine district of Neuss , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The mill was first mentioned in a document in 1335. It was a ban mill for the Archbishops of Cologne . The mill compulsion remained in place until 1794, when it was lifted after the annexation of the Left Rhineland by the French - as with all mills. Until then, in addition to the farmers from Gustorf, those from Frimmersdorf and Gindorf had to have their grain ground here and also help with repairs and conversions. Twice a week the husband was picked up by the Gustorfer miller in a cart and brought back again.

The mill before the renovation in 1913, still with two water wheels and the old mill building

In 1392 the mill was destroyed during a campaign by Count von Berg ; but rebuilt six years later.

Over the centuries the mill, which the Cologne elector had temporarily given to the Counts of Styrum as a fief , was leased to numerous millers. In 1802 the mill was confiscated by the French as an ecclesiastical domain property as part of the secularization and sold to the tenant Adam Sinsteden. His daughter Mechtildis Sinsteden donated the mill to the Gustorf Church, which she sold on in order to use the proceeds for the construction of the St. Joseph Hospital in Gustorf.

In 1865 the Gustorfer Mühle served the painter Andreas Achenbach as a motif for a watercolor drawing.

In 1749 a new miller's house was built. Between 1913 and 1923 the mill was extensively rebuilt. The two mill wheels, of which only one was last in operation, were replaced by a water turbine . Furthermore, the old mill house was rebuilt and expanded; the building was created in its current form with a large grain silo. It is unclear whether and for how long the mill resumed operation after the renovation.

In 1961 a fire destroyed the mill down to the brickwork, after which the burned-out ruin stood empty for many years. In 1984 the remains were placed under monument protection in order to save them from complete demolition.

In 1998 a couple took over the building as a private investor. After initial delays, they had the structure stabilized, extensively refurbished and renovated. The work was completed in 2008. The originally planned establishment of a catering business did not succeed, use as a residential building was not permitted for reasons of monument protection. Today the mill is used as a commercial building in which there are medical practices and offices. The water turbine from the 1930s, which was also out of order after the fire, was repaired and is now used again to generate electricity.

technical structure

Unlike many other mills along the Erft, the weir of the Gustorfer Mühle does not dam a side arm ("Mühlenerft") , but the main course of the river, which over time often leads to problems and disputes with residents and other mill operators due to flooding and silting up of the Erft up and down the river.

Because of the "rotten ground" on which the mill stood, the mill was built on nine meter long oak piles; During the renovation, this pile foundation was replaced by concrete.

Above the weir, the Gustorfer Graben and the Neuenhausener Graben branch off from the Erft; the weir regulates the distribution of water to the three drains and the water turbine (formerly water wheels). The weir system in trestle construction, which has largely been preserved in the condition from 100 years ago (see photo above), was repaired in the early 2000s.

Formerly the mill only had one undershot mill wheel, it was not until the middle of the 18th century that the number of wheels was increased to three. At the beginning of the 20th century only two of these were left (see photo above), of which only one was still in use. During the renovation in the 1910s and 20s, the wheels were replaced by a Francis turbine , which was housed in an annex.

Little is known of the technology of the grinder. In the outer area of ​​the mill there is still an old millstone and an old shaft of a transmission drive (see photos below).

Web links

Commons : Gustorfer Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Two information signs at the location of the mill (Photos on Wikimedia Commons: Schild 1 , Schild 2 )
  2. ↑ a b c d "Mill Tour" - route description. GWG Gas- und Wasserwerk Grevenbroich, archived from the original on October 26, 2011 ; Retrieved March 17, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Wiljo Piel: “Open Monument Day”. The old mill becomes a gem . In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper . September 8, 2005 ( ngz-online.de ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Anja Pick: The Gustorfer watermill was "on rotten ground" . In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper . August 3, 2001 ( ngz-online.de ).
  5. ↑ a b Richard Klapheck: The architecture on the Lower Rhine . tape 1 . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1916, DNB  560627017 , OCLC 560614 ( lexikus.de ; full text in the Internet archive - with photo of the Gustorfer Mühle from before 1913).
  6. ↑ The world art . tape 72 , issues 7-10. Art and Technology, 2002, ISSN  0043-261X , OCLC 5510033 .
  7. ^ Wiljo Piel: Still a ruin four years after the sale. Gustorfer ask: What will happen to the old mill? In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper . April 4, 2002 ( ngz-online.de ).
  8. ↑ Weir in the Erft at the Gustorfer Mühle created trouble. Defend yourself . In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper . January 2, 2004 ( ngz-online.de ).
  9. ↑ Ralf Kreiner: The Erft. The artificial or natural character of the river in historical terms. (Water quality, hydromorphology and conditions of use) . Memorandum. Ed .: Mühlenverband Rhein-Erft-Rur. Aachen February 21, 2008 ( muehlenverband-rer.de [PDF; 133 kB ]).
  10. ^ A b Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments . tape 39 . Butzon & Bercker, 2004.