Hedwigsburg Okermühle
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 Entrance to the mill area 2015 |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 7 '6 " N , 10 ° 34' 8" E | |
| Location | Lower Saxony , Wolfenbüttel district , Pilbrucke district of Hedwigsburg | |
| Waters | Oker | |
| Built | First mentioned in 1318 | |
| Status | Wheat mill with a daily output of 600 t | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| drive | Watermill until around 1954 | |
| Website | http://www.okermuehle.de/ | |
The Hedwigsburger Okermühle is a watermill location on the Oker in the Pillowbrücker district Hedwigsburg , district Wolfenbüttel , documented since 1318 . The historically passed down and still common name is Fährmühle . It processes wheat, still contains a water turbine and is otherwise supplied from the electricity grid.
location
The mill is located on the right arm of the Oker, the water level of which is regulated a few hundred meters upstream by a weir and is cut off into the main river. The Mühlengraben runs in a straight line in a south-north direction, the difference in altitude at the Mühlen weir is almost three meters. Between the Ohrum on the left bank of the river and the pillow bridge there was a historical Oker crossing over two Oker arms, which were separated by a flat gravel bank. Today a bridge spans the Oker, which was laid in the 1950s. On the right bank is the district of Hedwigsburg, which was temporarily turned into an industrial site by the Braunschweig – Bad Harzburg railway line . Politically, the right side of the Oker used to belong to the Duchy of Braunschweig , the left side to the Kingdom of Hanover .
The surrounding landscape of the hill country of East Brunswick has fertile loess soils and is therefore traditionally very suitable for growing wheat .
history
Ferry mill
The Verehof was first mentioned in a message from the Hildesheim Monastery of St. Michaelis . The mill was first mentioned in a document in 1318, when Duke Otto der Milde sold a share of the mill to a Holtnicker family: "molendium quod dicitur vere" - the mill that is called vere . The Heiningen Monastery held further shares, which were sold to the Lords of Asseburg in 1389. In 1421 the city of Braunschweig bought the mill, fortified it with a tower and equipped it with five riflemen. In 1454 both the Heininger and the Brunswick shares were sold to the Brunswick Duke Heinrich the Peaceful .
For the time after the Thirty Years' War there are reports about the tenants of the mill, which was named Vehrde-Mühle in 1647 . Significant flood damage has been recorded for 1651, after which a new free-flood lock and a bridge over the Okerarm, now known as the Mühlengraben, were built by 1655 with the help of the ducal. Later, an oil mill and a fulling mill were set up for the Braunschweig cloth makers. Flood damage with considerable damage to the mill facilities has been handed down for all the following centuries.
Together with the manor Hedwigsburg, the mill location was sold to the von Münchhausen family by Hereditary Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand in 1769 . In 1820 it became the private property of the Schwannecke family, who ran it successfully for the next few decades and used the swan as a trademark.
Development into an industrial mill
In the 19th century, the mill system was changed across Germany from contract milling to industrial production for regional and national trade ( commercial mill ). The Fährmühle was already a supplier for the biscuit manufacturer Bahlsen in 1910 , which suggests a specialized product orientation. The mill was converted into a large mill at that time.
In the 20th century, the production facility was taken over by Rolandmühle in Bremen in 1975 and directly by Bahlsen in 1983. Since 1999 the production company has been under the umbrella of the family company v. Nordeck Holding GmbH & Co. KG in Bielefeld.
Today's production
The mill mainly produces for the food industry. This includes type flours , the processing of common wheat and the production of wafer flour. Other products are special flours that are suitable for use in soups and sauces, special products and binders for the wood industry. The Mühlengesellschaft attaches great importance to the regional origin of the processed raw products from their own contract cultivation .
Fish pass
In September 2004, a fish ladder in the form of a slit pass was built at the mill weir to make the Oker more ecological and to remove obstacles for migratory fish. The height to be overcome is 2.97 m and is managed by 23 pools, each 1.8 m long. For the construction, one of the two water turbines still in operation was expanded, while the second could remain in operation with a nominal throughput of 3 m 3 / s. The Aller-Oker-Salmon Community carried out a functional test in 2006 together with the NLWKN and anglers ' clubs .
Others
Next to the mill there used to be a brewery called "Fährburg", which operated from 1580 to the 18th century and was later used as an inn for about fifty years.
When the mill was rebuilt between 1908 and 1910, old foundations were found, which may be due to the construction of the fortress tower in the 15th century.
literature
- Elisabeth Reifenstein, municipality of Ohrum (ed.): Chronicle of Ohrum 747–1997. Wolfenbüttel 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b NLWKN and others: Functional control of the fish passage at the Hedwigsburger Okermühle /issenbrück. Braunschweig November 2006, source: wanderfische.de (PDF; 1.5 MB) on wanderfische.de
- ↑ a b Elisabeth Reifenstein, Municipality of Ohrum (ed.): Chronicle Ohrum 747–1997. Wolfenbüttel 1997, p. 381 ff.
- ↑ Company history. Retrieved June 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Type flours for the food industry. Retrieved June 8, 2015 .