Chicken mill

Chicken mill community Pfofeld Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 44 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	413 m above sea level NN
Residents :	10  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Postal code :	91738
Area code :	09834
Location of Hühnermühle in Bavaria
Chicken mill on the Altmühlüberleiter

Hühnermühle is a district of the Pfofeld community in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The desert is at a height of 413 meters above sea level and has ten inhabitants (as of 2010).

location

The hamlet named after the (former) mill is located on the northern edge of the Altmühlüberleiters and about 500 meters west of its confluence with the Kleiner Brombachsee . It is structurally grown together with the neighboring town of Neuherberg in the north . A municipal road leads via Neuherberg to the district road WUG 1 passing to the east and to the district road WUG 20 running south . To the west is the Brombachmoor nature reserve . South of the Hühnermühle on the other side of the Altmühlüberleiters is the Pfofelder district of Furthmühle , now a sawmill. The closest town is Gunzenhausen, about 7 kilometers away .

Place name interpretation

The place name researcher Robert Schuh names three possible interpretations: "Mill, in the vicinity of which numerous (part) chickens stay" or "Mill, whose mill interest (mainly) consists in the delivery of chickens" or "Mill in which numerous (perhaps in Meaning of "excessive number") chickens are kept. "The mill rent to the landlord consisted of other mills in addition to cash benefits from natural produce such as grain or flour, pigs, chickens and eggs; Gunzenhausen local historian Hans Bach also assumes that chickens are given as the name of the chicken mill. The term "hammer mill", which appears in some later documents, goes back to a wrong translation from the colloquial "Hennenmühle".

history

Hühnermühle was first mentioned in 1398 when Stephan and Hadmar von Absberg sold the "Hüner Mül" and the "Hüner Weyer" to the Ellingen Order of the Teutonic Order . It was vogt there at least since the early 17th century (document from 1608) - and valid ; According to a document from 1612, the Fraisch was disputed between the Teutonic Order and the Margrave-Ansbach Office of Gunzenhausen. Probably as a result of the Thirty Years' War , the chicken mill was still empty towards the end of the 17th century. As such, it was bought by Neuherberg landlord Hans Schmidt from the Teutonic Order in Ellingen in 1693. For 1732 one learns that the mill is operated as an oil mill , that the millers have to give the tithe to the parish Absberg , that the Vogtei inner Ettern is perceived by the Teutonic Order in Ellingen, while the Vogtei except Ettern and the high Fraisch now clearly are margravial property and are perceived by the Gunzenhausen District Office.

In 1792 the Hühnermühle becomes Prussian with the Margraviate of Ansbach . At the end of the Holy Roman Empire it goes with the former Principality of Ansbach as a result of Reichsdeputationshauptschluss circuit 1806 to the new Kingdom of Bavaria on where they in the District Court / Rentamt Gunzenhausen in 1808 the tax district Absberg, 1811 the Rural Municipality Absberg and from 1818, the Rural Municipality Thannhausen is incorporated . In 1833, the chicken mill became a mill with real meal fairness and pays to the tax community of Thannhausen.

From 1923, luminous flux was generated with two water wheels and a generator . In 1956 the mill was converted to electrical operation. The miller family Walther / Walter had owned the Hühnermühle without interruption from 1680 until the Bavarian state replaced and demolished the old mill building during the construction of the Kleiner Brombachsee in the 1970s. In the course of the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipality of Thannhausen was dissolved. The chicken mill came to Pfofeld on May 1, 1978.

Population numbers

• 1818: 4 inhabitants
• 1824: 4 inhabitants, 1 property
• 1867: 5 residents, 2 buildings
• 1950: 9 inhabitants, 1 property
• 1961: 8 residents, 2 residential buildings
• 1979: 8 inhabitants
• 1987: 7 inhabitants
• December 31, 2010: 10 residents

literature

• Hans Bach: Family, house and farm history: The Walther von der Hühnermühle. In Gunzenhauser Heimat-Bote , Volume IV (1938–1944), p. 136
• Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Francs . Row I, Issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . Edited by Hanns Hubert Hofmann. Munich 1960
• Robert Schuh: Gunzenhausen. Former district of Gunzenhausen . Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 5: Gunzenhausen . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1979, especially No. 133, pp. 144f

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schuh, pp. 144f .; Bach, p. 136
2. ↑ This section after Schuh, p. 144
3. ↑ Historical Atlas, pp. 230, 240f
4. ^ Schuh, p. 145, FN 14
5. ↑ ^{a b} Website Franconian Lake District
6. ↑ Bach, p. 136
7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 731 .
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Historical Atlas, p. 240
9. ^ J. Heyberger and others (edit.): Topographical-statistical handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary. Munich 1867, column 1036
10. ↑ Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census. Munich 1964, Col. 787
11. ↑ Schuh, p. 144
12. ↑ gov.genealogy.net
13. ↑ Website of the Pfofeld community ( Memento of the original dated December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.