Helpensteiner Mill

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Helpensteiner Mill

Helpensteiner Mühle in Wegberg-Arsbeck

Helpensteiner Mühle in Wegberg-Arsbeck

Location and history
Helpensteiner Mühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Helpensteiner Mill
Coordinates 51 ° 8 '14 "  N , 6 ° 12' 6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '14 "  N , 6 ° 12' 6"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
DEU District of Heinsberg COA.svg District of Heinsberg
DEU Wegberg COA.svg Wegberg
Waters Helpensteiner Bach (Rothenbach)
Built 14./15. century
Shut down 18th century
technology
use Grinding mill
Grinder 1 grind
drive Watermill
water wheel Wooden wheel

The Helpensteiner Mühle was a watermill with a probably undershot water wheel .

geography

The Helpensteiner Mühle was located on today's Helpensteinstraße between the districts of Arsbeck , Wildenrath and Dalheim-Rödgen in the middle town of Wegberg in the Heinsberg district . In front of the mill was a mill pond , the so-called Helpenstein pond . Today the site has a height of 73 m above sea level. NN. The Helpenstein's pond was fed by the Helpensteiner Bach.

Waters

The Rothenbach has its origin in the Helpensteiner Bach, which has its source near the Siemens test center on Friedrich-List-Allee. The source height is 84 meters above sea level. The Helpensteiner Bach used to flow through the Helpensteins Weiher and today the Rödgener Burgweiher, also called Rakyweiher, and supplied the Dalheimer Mühle with water through an overshot mill wheel until 1899. The further course of the brook leads through a wooded area to Dalheimer Mühle, where the Helpensteiner Bach flows through the upstream mill pond and forms the border between the Netherlands and Germany behind the mill as Rothenbach over a stretch of 5.5 km. On its way, the Gitstapper mill is supplied with water before the Rothenbach near Vlodrop on Dutch territory flows into the Rur as "Rode Beek" . The mouth height is 28 m above sea level. NN.

history

In the 14./15. In the 18th century, the Lords of Glory Arsbeck owned the Helpensteiner Mühle near Arsbeck Castle at the so-called Helpenstein pond. The mill pond was fed with water from the Helpensteiner Bach. During a thunderstorm in 1547, the Helpensteiner mill burned down. In 1576 it was rebuilt as a forced mill . From 1666 there was a castle mill without a mill ban. The miller Veit Ceupers from Wegberg can pick up his grist in Arsbeck. Due to the influence of the Dalheim monastery, an application for the construction of a new mill was rejected in 1780 in order to avoid competition. Only after the abolition of the monastery in 1802 was the new Rödgener mill at the Rödgener Burgweiher approved.

literature

  • Lower Rhine water mills - guide by Hans Vogt
  • The Schwalm - Valley of the Mills by Horst Jungblut - Helmut Elstner
  • Home book of the city of Wegberg - Compiled by Heinz Cohnen
  • Wegberg cultural guide

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