Hessenmühle (Usingen)

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Hessenmühle near Usingen
Image of the document from Count Philipp II of Nassau-Weilburg dated March 11, 1489, by confirming that Hermann Lange is the owner of the Hessenmühle near Usingen and has to make an annual payment of four malter grain.

The Hessenmühle is a listed building outside the Usingen district of Eschbach in the Hochtaunuskreis , Hesse .

The mill

Hessenmühle is located on the B275 between Usingen and Bad Nauheim in corridor 9 and parcel 110. The exact address is "Outside the locality (Hessenmühle)". It was a water mill that got its water power from the USA . Today the property is used for residential purposes, ecological projects and charitable, social work.

history

In 1324 the mill is mentioned for the first time as "Keugauer's Mulen dye da lies behind the cooking method and above the use" in a wisdom after a border inspection of the Mörler Mark . The name of the mill refers to the mountain range running to the east, which was then called Kuhart or Kuhhart. In the document from 1489 shown in the picture, the mill is referred to as “under the Kuehevert”. Today the name of this elevation is Hessenkopf . In 1510 the mill is called "Heckenmühle". Even back then there was talk of two mills: Lower and Upper Hessenmühle. The use of the name Hessenmühle was first documented in 1635.

Historically, the USA was the border between the rule of Cransberg and the Principality of Nassau-Usingen . The mill was on the Nassau side and was owned by the Counts / Princes of Nassau. A boundary stone from 1654 near the mill was set by the Waldbott von Bassenheim after the Cransberg office took ownership .

The current buildings all date from the time after the Thirty Years' War and are mostly built in the 18th century. The inscription above the door of the lower mill reads:

"Master Ulrich Miller and Elias Wagner the 3rd of July in the year 1723
I am putting this building in God's
hands Preserve it from fire and fire
and all this whole country"

- Inscription above the door of the lower mill

From 1570 to 1818 the mill always belonged to a family, from 1723 to the descendants of Ulrich Müller.

In 1818 the construction of an additional oil mill failed. Since then the owners have changed frequently. At that time, two houses with twelve residents are mentioned here.

Hessenmühle is privately owned today. Part of the lower Hessenmühle was destroyed by a tornado in May 2017 . A rebuilding is planned. In December 2017, the owners established a non-profit foundation.

Trial at the Reich Chamber of Commerce

From 1716 to 1717 a trial for the Hessenmühle took place before the Reich Chamber of Commerce. First Johann Müller, then his sons-in-law (on behalf of their wives) filed a lawsuit against the Württemberg Chamberlain Jacob Imlin as representative of the daughters (and heirs) of Carl Christoph von Eggershausen. In 1696 Johann Müller took over the mill as part of a loan contract with Eggershausen. In 1699 this contract was replaced by a loan of 600 guilders to Eggershausen (for which the mill served as security). The Nassauisch-Saarbrücken government chancellery in Usingen had submitted the case to the University of Jena and 1714 to the University of Helmstedt by sending files from 1712 to 1713 . They had rejected the claims of Johann Müller's heirs. The appeal to the Reich Chamber of Commerce was directed against this rejection . A judgment is not contained in the files of the Reich Chamber of Commerce, but the Müller family subsequently owned the mill.

Heist in 1800

In 1800 there was a robbery on the Hessenmühle. Since the miller was traveling by cart, the miller's wife was at home alone. A man she did not know entered the house and declared that the miller had had an accident and had sent him to fetch ten guilders from the mill. The miller's wife pleaded illness and asked him to fetch the money from the upper chamber. After he entered it, she slammed the door, imprisoning him. A short time later, however, an accomplice of the robber appeared. He demanded the release of his crony and smashed the now locked front door with an ax. The miller defended herself against the intruder with a shot from the rifle lying ready. At that moment the miller returned home and the robbers were disarmed (they still had knives with them) and handed over to the country hunters in Usingen. The judicial investigation revealed that they should have belonged to the gang of the Schinderhannes .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hessenschau.de ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2018 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 March 18, 2018 (video) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
  2. ↑ Jost Hausmann: Inventory of the files of the Reich Chamber of Commerce , Volume 12 Nassau, A - M., Part 1, Volume 1, 1987, ISBN 9783922244769 , p. 596.
  3. ↑ Albert Philipp: The robbers on the Hessen mill ; in: Usinger Land (home supplement of the Usinger Anzeiger) 1953-03; quoted from: Eugen Ernst: Mühlen im Wandel der Zeiten , 2005, ISBN 9783806219357 , pp. 73–74.

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 46.7 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 9.1 ″  E