Hardtmühle
The Hardtmühle was a watermill in Cologne-Dellbrück on the Strunde .
history
Mühlenhof is the oldest known name of the Hardthof, which belonged to the possessions of the former Johanniterkommende Herrenstrunden , as can be seen from a document dated April 4, 1340. A short time later, on June 24th, 1340 Gobelin von Gierath ( de Geroyde ) and his wife Udela, the Mühlenstatt ( Molenstat ), i.e. the site for a mill, and three quarters of an acre of arable land from Commander Engelbert and the other brothers of the Order of St. had received eternal, hereditary property (= lease) to build a mill for grain of all kinds. The term Mühlenhof mentioned at the beginning and the designation of the property as Mühlenstatt indicate that a mill used to stand here. The mill is only mentioned again in a document dated February 22, 1479, although no details are known. A document dated February 22, 1532 about the Johanniter mill near the village of Strunden gives more information . There is now talk of a Pleißmühle ( Plyssmoelen ) for polishing armor . At the time of the new lease on September 22, 1597, the operation as Pleißmühle should have become uneconomical, because the new leaseholder Johann Reinhard von Malmentier operated an oil and powder mill ( Olligs- und Pulvermullen ) here from now on .
The powder mill has not been mentioned since 1668, so that it can be assumed that it was only an oil mill. In connection with the secularization , the Johanniterkommende Herrenstrunden was abolished after the decree of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1806. The Hardtmühle passed into state ownership, i.e. the property of the Duchy of Berg , later the Grand Duchy of Berg , whose domain renters from the Canton of Mülheim leased the mill together with the Hardthof for the last time on April 20, 1809 to Peter Höller. On October 24, 1811, a fire broke out in the mill and left it to rubble and ashes. On September 7, 1813, the domain management decided to sell the building site to the highest bidder with the obligation to build a new mill.
Several sales negotiations took place. With effect from November 19, 1814, the new owner was Heinrich Moll from Mülheim . He then built a new mill with an undershot water wheel . It was again an oil mill with two oil presses . Moll and his wife had six children, to whom he had given the mill on September 13, 1854. After the death of their parents, the children had the mill auctioned on January 8, 1863. The co-heir Eduard Moll acquired the mill and kept it for ten years. He sold them on June 7, 1873 with all accessories, residential buildings and land to the file manufacturer Eduard Karl Kind from Strunden. This initially operated the mill as a coal mill , with which he produced black flour . This business turned out to be not profitable. Therefore, he leased the mill on October 18, 1875 to the Cologne citizen Karl Paffrath, who operated it as a plaster and alabaster mill from December 1, 1875 . However, the child reserved a right of use to operate a grinding shop during the night from seven in the evening to seven in the morning. The Paffrath family maintained the production of plaster for the production of figures of saints, for example in the Benedictine monastery of Maria Laach , until after the Second World War . Production was later switched to high-quality dental and association plasters. The mill was still in operation as a gypsum mill until the 1980s. It was later converted to generate electricity. If the strunde has enough water, electricity is still generated there today.
See also
literature
- Frank Schulte: The Strunderbach and its mills , in: The Mayor of Merheim in the course of time, 1st volume, published by Heimatverein Köln-Dellbrück eV “Ahl Kohgasser”, Cologne 1973, p. 202f.
- Frank Schulte: The mills on the Strunde , ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein, Cologne 1979, p. 48f.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Jürgen Huck : Die Hardtmühle , in: Rechtsrheinisches Köln, Yearbook for History and Regional Studies, Volume 2, Cologne-Porz 1976, p. 38ff.
- ↑ Pleiß von pleistern = plastering, smoothing, polishing with lime (armor had to be polished to be shiny and rust-resistant), see Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, German Dictionary, Leipzig 1854–1961, Volume 13, edited by Matthias von Lexer, Leipzig 1889, Reprint Munich 1991
- ↑ Electricity is being generated in the Hardtmühle today ( memento of the original from July 21, 2014 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. Retrieved October 13, 2012
Web links
- The Strunderbach and its mills , accessed on February 7, 2016.
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 16.4 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 57" E