Hambacher Mill (Neustadt)
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 19 '51 " N , 8 ° 8' 29" E | |
| Location | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse | |
| Built | 1917 | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
The Hambach mill is a mill for corn , which is now on rye specializes in the independent city Neustadt an der Weinstraße ( Rheinland-Pfalz ).
geography
location
The Hambacher Mühle is at an altitude of 155 m above sea level. NHN at the foot of the Haardtgebirge in the Vorderpfalz , 3 km south of the city center of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and 800 m east of the Hambach district .
Transport links
From the A 65 ( Ludwigshafen - Karlsruhe , junction 13 Neustadt-Süd), the mill can be reached via the B 39 Speyer –Neustadt and the state road 516 after 4.5 km.
history
Establishment
In the early years of the 20th century, the grain harvest was always arduous work for the Hambach farmers . In addition to the harvest , there was the long way for the then conditions with slow cow or horse-drawn vehicles to the next threshing machine in Lachen or Speyerdorf .
When it became known in the spring of 1917 that the Eugen Lederle winery in Hambach was to be auctioned after the viticulture had been abandoned, several Hambach farmers formed a cooperative that was to function as a threshing cooperative. A vineyard property belonging to the Lederle winery seemed to be the ideal place for the planned project. Over 100 farmers and vintners were ready to become members of the cooperative.
Initially, it was planned to build a hall on the property to accommodate a threshing machine with a straw press. The board of the threshing cooperative under the first chairman Lorenz Brettinger bought the property that was cleared . The municipality of Hambach provided the wood for the hall free of charge; However, it had to be fetched from the forest (Hirschtal) by the threshing cooperative and brought to the Johannes Kriegshäuser sawmill in Neustadt. Since all horses for the First World War were confiscated in Hambach , the cooperative loaned seven or eight animals to a military unit in Germersheim , which the then 17-year-old Michael Gutting picked up. The timber was transported and cut to size, the hall was built by the company Fillibeck from Hambach.
After purchasing a threshing machine, the grain from 1917 could already be threshed in Hambach. In order to save the transport to the next mill, a small mill was added to the threshing business.
Decline
In the difficult time after the First World War, which was also characterized by inflation , the profitability of threshing and milling operations steadily declined. In addition, the mill was broken into and the flour available for collection was stolen. So it was decided to sell the mill and the threshing room.
The company was put up for sale with the condition that operations must continue in their current form. In May 1923, during the period of inflation, the property was acquired by the Gutting brothers for 350 million marks and then changed hands twice.
In 1927, the married couple Michael and Margarete Gutting acquired the company, which from then on was called "Hambacher Mühle" as a production facility and company. In the following time, the mill was gradually expanded, as the existing technology no longer met the requirements. In contrast to other mills, which were mostly powered by the water power of a body of water, the mill operation was always dependent on electrical energy . The Hambacher Mühle is located on a small stream , the Pfuhlwiesengraben ; but this carries far too little water for the required driving force.
In 1936, strict production limits were set by quotas. Accordingly, the amount of grinding was not allowed to exceed the total annual amount of 1936 in future. Extensions and modernizations were therefore not possible or pointless. The following Second World War also contributed to the fact that no operational investments were made.
Although the legal requirements regarding grinding were lifted again in the post-war period, tough competition arose at the same time among the milling companies. Because the large mills destroyed in the war were rebuilt and put into operation; on the other hand, bread consumption fell by almost half between 1950 and 1980. The number of mills in Germany fell from around 15,000 mills in 1950 to around 500 in 1990.
Newer development
Despite the difficulties, the Hambacher Mühle was able to develop well. At the end of the 1950s, the threshing operation was given up because the combine harvesters had dawned and the threshing machines were being decommissioned.
Towards the end of the 1960s, the company switched to pure rye grinding. Due to the very good climatic conditions in the Vorderpfalz and Rheinhessen , the quality of rye cultivation is particularly good.
The mill was handed over in 1972 by Michael Gutting to his son Werner, who subsequently carried out extensive technical innovations. On July 17, 1973, a major fire destroyed a considerable part of the mill. In the late 1973, the mill was able to resume, initially on a provisional basis.
The daily output of the Hambacher Mühle is around 90 to 100 tons per day. About 5000 tons of grain can be stored, the loading silos have space for about 300 tons of rye flour and about 40 tons of mill by-products. The production is carried out fully automatically. The main sales area is essentially in the south and south-west of Germany.
At the beginning of 2000, after 83 years, the company name “Hambacher Mühle” was given up, but the mill remained as a production facility. It is leased from Rheintal Mühlen GmbH , which is based in the northern Baden town of Stutensee . The production of rye flour is continued, the marketing takes place under the name "Rheintal Mühlen GmbH".
literature
- The Hambacher… e. V., Association for the Promotion of Village Development, Home and Culture Care (Ed.): Issue 3/1992 . Birghan printing works, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Today: “Die Hambacher… e. V., Association for the Promotion of Village Development and Homeland Care “. Retrieved September 1, 2016 .