Gymnicher mill
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 The miller's house with mill wing and water wheel |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 51 '17 " N , 6 ° 43' 57" E | |
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 Germany
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| Waters | Erft (Small Erft) | |
| Built | First mentioned in a document in 1315 | |
| Shut down | around 1945 (mill operation) | |
| Status | Mill wheel preserved, grinder dismantled. Today used as an information center. | |
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| use | Grain mill , at times also oil mill | |
| drive | Watermill | |
| water wheel | 1 × medium-sized (preserved) | |
| Website | www.naturparkzentrum-gymnichermuehle.de | |
The Gymnicher Mill is a historic water mill on the little Erft northwest of today Erftstadt proper place Gymnich .
The three-wing Mühlenhofanlage is used today by the Rhineland Nature Park , the Mühlenverband Rhein-Erft-Rur (MVRER) and various other organizations as an information, teaching, work and event center.
History and structure
The Gymnicher Mühle was first mentioned in a document in 1315. However, excavation finds in the vicinity indicate a much older origin, probably already at the time of the Carolingians in the 9th century.
Since the Middle Ages, the mill and the lower village of Gymnich have belonged to the Siegburg Abbey . This set up the Lords of Gymnich as governors and gave them the rule of Gymnich with the mill as a fief . The mill remained in their possession for several centuries.
A special feature of the mill was its status: the gentlemen from Gymnich held the water right and thus the right to ban the mill, but not the right of coercion . This means that no other mills were allowed to be built and operated in the area of the mill, but the farmers enjoyed the freedom to switch to one of the mills in the neighboring villages outside the Gymnich ban area to have their grain ground there.
The mill was originally some distance from its present location; it was moved here in 1563. In the past, the mill had two structurally separate channels, undershot water wheels and grinders, one of which was used not only as a grain mill but also as an oil mill .
In the middle of the 19th century, the combined mill and miller's house was rebuilt. Today's waterwheel was built in the 1920s and was originally surrounded by a protective building extension, the wheelhouse . In 1938 the mill was rebuilt again; among other things, the wheelhouse was dismantled and a flood ditch was laid.
At the end of the Second World War , the mill was given up. In 1948 the entire mill technology with the grinder inside the mill house was dismantled; only the external mill wheel and the hydraulic engineering systems remained.
In 1984 the mill house with the associated hydraulic structures was placed under protection as an official architectural monument of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Erftstadt Monument List , Monument No. 90).
In 2005 the Mühlenverband Rhein-Erft-Rur took over the entire Mühlenhof plant. In the following years, the mill was restored under the leadership of the MVRER with financial and organizational help from the sponsors and benefactors Gymnicher Mühle , the NRW Foundation , the LVR , the Rhein-Erft district , the city of Erftstadt and other supporters and became an information center expanded (see below). The center was officially inaugurated during the German Milling Day on June 13, 2011.
Use as an information center
Nature Park Center
As part of the Regionale 2010 , “RegioGrün” project , the Mühlenhof was expanded into an information center for the Rhineland Nature Park . The center provides information on the Erftaue landscape park adventure area , the floodplain and Börden landscape along the Erft between Kerpen and Erftstadt, which is to be expanded into the “Third Cologne Green Belt ” through extensive renaturation measures . The core of the nature park center is a permanent exhibition on the landscape and settlement history of the Erftaue.
Starting from the mill, four bike and footpath tours lead through the surrounding quarry and floodplain landscape. Guided by signs or optionally with GPS support with an electronic "mobile tour guide", visitors can find out about the scenic and cultural-historical features of the Erftaue on site.
As an extension of the center plan Erftverband , Rhein-Erft , the mill association Rhein-Erft-Rur and the city Erftstadt outside the east of the mill yard a 13,000 m 2 large water park to be created. After completion, which is expected for 2012 or 2013, schoolchildren and adults will be able to find out more about the water cycle and water management in various exhibition stations and experience the interrelationships interactively through small experiments.
Rhenish mill documentation center
The Gymnicher Mühle serves the Mühlenverband Rhein-Erft-Rur eV (MVRER), the molinological association for the Rhineland , as the center for its activities. The core of the work is the inventory and condition recording, labeling and inventory of all mills in the area of the association. In addition, the association conducts specialist conferences and seminars in the mill documentation center (also known as the Institute for International Historical Milling and Hydrology), coordinates its own research work and cooperation with other mill and monument conservation organizations and facilities, and creates publications.
Other offers and activities
The information offered by the center is complemented by restaurants , a farm shop and an adventure bakery that offers baking courses for children and adults.
The center's conference and exhibition rooms are also rented to other organizers. Part of the mill house serves as a gallery and studio space for artists. Other parts of the building are being converted into apartments for rent to people with disabilities.
In the outdoor area of the mill, a farm and herb garden invites you to take a walk. Hiking and biking trails lead from the mill to the nearby sights of Schloss Gymnich and Schloss Türnich , which are embedded in the landscape park .
The neighboring bird of prey center Rhineland is also affiliated with the information center, with information on falconry and birds of prey as well as regular bird of prey air shows .
literature
- Gabriele Scholz: Development and establishment of a documentation center on the water and windmills in the Rhein-Erft district (= Berlin handouts for library and information science . Volume 197 ). Institute for Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin, 2007, ISSN 1438-7662 ( hu-berlin.de [PDF]).
- RMDZ e. V. (Ed.): Eremdezet . ISSN 2198-879X (title addition up to year 5, no.16 (March 2015): messages from the Rheinisches Mühlen Documentation Center (RMDZ) in the Gymnicher Mühle Nature Park Center (Rhein-Erft district))
- Ralf Kreiner, The Gymnicher Mühle - 700 years of mill history on the Erft , 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g The Gymnicher mill. Gymnicher Mühle Nature Park Center, accessed on June 14, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Gymnicher Mühle. Future water adventure center in the Erftaue. Zweckverband Naturpark Rheinland, accessed on June 14, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Gymnicher Mühle Nature Park Center. Gymnicher Mühle Nature Park Center, accessed on June 14, 2011 .
- ^ Bernhard Peter: Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 1224. Gymnich (to Erftstadt). Retrieved January 17, 2011 . (Note: The coat of arms stone is probably older than the building and dates from the time of the marriage of Karl Otto Ludwig Theodat von und zu Gymnich with Katharina Elisabeth Maria Freiin von Franckenstein zu Ockstatt)
- ↑ a b Monika Gussone: Noble life worlds in the Rhineland: annotated sources of the early modern period (= writings, United Adelsarchive im Rheinland . Volume 3 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 3-412-20251-7 , p. 289 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b c d Information board of the Mühlenverband Rhein-Erft-Rur on site
- ↑ a b c Entry on Gymnicher Mühle with weir in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 2, 2017.
- ↑ a b Horst Komuth: Mill becomes a magnet. ksta.de (online edition of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger ), June 10, 2011, accessed on December 6, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Volker HW Schüler: The 'Gymnicher Mühle im Naturpark Erftaue' will officially be opened on June 13, 2011 . In: Rheinisches Mühlen-Dokumentationszentrum in the Mühlenverband des Rhein-Erft-Kreis eV (Hrsg.): Eremdezet . Messages from the Rheinisches Mühlen Documentation Center (RMDZ) in the Gymnicher Mühle Nature Park Center (Rhein-Erft district). No. 8 . Bergheim April 2001 ( online as PDF ).
- ↑ RegioGrün. Project detail. Regional 2010, accessed June 14, 2011 .
- ↑ RMDZ - Rheinisches Mühlen Documentation Center. (No longer available online.) Mühlenverband Rhein-Erft-Rur eV, archived from the original on January 5, 2011 ; Retrieved June 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Scholz, 2007 (see literature)
- ^ Pierre Schmidt Falconry. Rhineland Birds of Prey Center, accessed on June 14, 2011 .
Web links
- www.naturparkzentrum-gymnichermuehle.de - Official information page
- www.rmdz.de Information page of the Rheinisches Mühlen-Dokumentationszentrums eV (RMDZ)