Heroldsmühle (Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia)

Heroldsmühle with mill wheel in 2016

The Heroldsmühle is a mill in Franconian Switzerland . It is located in the Heiligenstadt area in the Bamberg district . The Leinleiter rises in the dry valley above the Heroldsmühle .

Particularly noteworthy about this mill is the old iron water wheel or mill wheel from 1916. It has a diameter of 7.20 meters and is one of the largest mill wheels in Germany. The mill wheel is driven by the stream (undershot) and also overshot, in that water is directed upwards through a hollow stone column and thus provides additional driving force.

The mill was in operation until 1952, in 1975 the building was restored and redesigned as an excursion restaurant, which had been closed since November 2010. The restaurant has been open again since May 2014 and offered Franconian snacks and refreshments. In February 2016 it was closed again for personal reasons.

The distance from the Heroldsmühle to Bamberg is about 25 kilometers, to Forchheim about 30 kilometers and about 60 kilometers to Nuremberg .

The Heroldsmühle is a station on the Jura line of the Main-Danube-Weg , a long-distance hiking trail that leads from Lichtenfels to Regensburg and on the Frankenweg .

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  overall view

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  Mill wheel

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  Dry valley above the source of the Leinleiter

Web links

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

• Heroldsmühle
• Dry Valley (Heroldsmühle)
• Over the Seigelstein into the Leinleitertal (hiking trail)
• Karst phenomena and karst tectonics in the Upper Leinleitertal (geology of the area around the Heroldsmühle)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated October 3, 2017 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. accessed on February 17, 2016  

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 11 ° 8'  E