Herrenmühle (Annaberg)

The Herrenmühle was the oldest and most important mill in the town of Annaberg in the Ore Mountains .

Geographical location

The mill had belonged to Frohnau since 1856 , but was previously within the field boundaries of Annaberg. In their place, the municipal power station was built after 1900.

history

The mill was at least the same age as the Frohnauer Hammer allegedly built in 1436 . A bar in the grinding room bore the characters MC40 , which was interpreted as 1140. Such an old age is doubtful, however.

The mill was temporarily the seat of the Pöhlberg rule , which in 1414 came to the Margraves of Meißen for 14,000 groschen from the possession of the Meissen burgraves. The villages Frohnau, Dörfel , Rückerswalde, Geyersdorf and half of Tannenberg belonged to this rule, the later mill office Annaberg . The mill office was part of the Hartenstein rule .

On April 15, 1553, Elector Moritz von Sachsen lent the manor mill with the mentioned villages to the council of the city of Annaberg, which had to pay a rent of 15,000 guilders. Since the council complained to the elector about the declining income of the mill, he ordered on February 24, 1559 that no further grinding mill was allowed to be built within a radius of 2 miles.

On Easter Sunday 1900, the Herrenmühle building burned down to the ground. After the reconstruction in a completely different form, it was acquired in 1907 by the city councilor C. Schmidt, who offered the city the property for the construction of a power station. The reconstruction took place in 1908/09. After a new substation had been built on Annaberger Gärtnerweg, the property was sold to the Rasmussen company.

literature

• Lothar Klapper: The manor mill and the mill office Annaberg. Forays into the history of the Upper Ore Mountains Issue 75, 2008

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 3.7 ″  N , 12 ° 59 ′ 57.6 ″  E