Henkenmühle

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Henkenmühle

The Henkenmühle in Viersen-Dülken

The Henkenmühle in Viersen-Dülken

Location and history
Henkenmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Henkenmühle
Coordinates 51 ° 15 '30 "  N , 6 ° 17' 18"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '30 "  N , 6 ° 17' 18"  E
Location Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
District of Viersen
City of Viersen
Waters Nice
Built First mentioned in 1225/1685
Shut down 1912 Destroyed by fire
technology
use Grain mill
Grinder 4 grinding courses
drive Watermill
water wheel undershot

The Henkenmühle is a former watermill in Viersen-Dülken , located on the Nette , with an undershot water wheel .

geography

The Henkenmühle is located on the Nette, An der Henkenmühle, in the Dülken district in the town of Viersen in the Viersen district in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Nice has a height of about 49 m above sea ​​level .

The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the Netteverband, which is based in Nettetal .

history

As early as 1225, a translation of the St. Pantaleon Abbey in Cologne mentions the existence of a mill on the Nette which owes 13 denarii . These revenues were last recorded in 1324. It is believed that it was a water mill. In 1685, a new chapter in the history of mills began at roughly the same point. On May 4, 1685, the Gladbach administrator and bailiff, Peter von Bruck, received a mill license from the Count Palatine to build a fulling, oil and paper mill at the western end of the Dülken district of Nette. For this, sources had been dug up, the Nette deepened and a large rectangular pond created. Two gold florins were to be paid to Jülich for the water rights . When the heirs ran into financial difficulties in 1715, they pledged the mill to the St. Vitus Abbey in Gladbach. During the secularization , the mill was sold to the miller Peter Heesen. For a long time it was also called Heesenmühle.

In 1886 Ludwig Henken took over the company and added a water turbine to the existing steam engine . He expanded the farm on the Mühlenhof, set up a taproom in his house and employed ten people. At that time the mill had four grinding courses. In 1905 the property came under the hammer and was foreclosed by auction. On February 28, 1906, the city of Dülken acquired all of Henken's property for DM 68,500. After a lease period, the city of Dülken sold the property on March 10, 1910 to the miller Josef Schürholz from Büren for DM 50,000. On December 4, 1912, the mill burned down to the ground and was not rebuilt. The Mühlenweiher was developed into the first mechanical-chemical-biological sewage treatment plant by Netteverband .

gallery

  • Business section of the Henkenmühle

  • The nice one near the Henkenmühle

  • Tranchot card No. 41 1804/05

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 459-460.
  • Karl L. Mackes: The Brucksche, Heesen or Henkenmühle - The first watermill on the upper reaches of the Nette. In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen , 31st episode / 1980, pp. 39–44.

Web links

Commons : Henkenmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.netteverband.de/