Sky mill

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Himmelmühle is a district of the municipality of Thermalbad Wiesenbad in the Erzgebirgskreis , Saxony , Germany . Until December 31, 1955, the Himmelmühle was a district of Falkenbach .

Geographical location

Himmelmühle, inn

Himmelmühle is located between Selva and the Wiesenbad thermal baths in the Zschopau valley , not far from the confluence of the Pöhlbach in the Zschopau.

history

The sky mill already existed in the 16th century as a flour mill with a bakery. At that time she was in the office of Wolkenstein . A cotton mill was built here in 1834, and a factory settlement with its own school was built in the vicinity. In 1912 production had to be stopped and part of the company building was used as a transformer station from then on. From 1921 the sky mill was converted into a cocoa and chocolate factory, and one of the representative half-timbered buildings was expanded as an excursion restaurant. During the war and after the war, the buildings were used for various purposes, until 1963 as a women's prison, then as a warehouse for the dkk Scharfenstein company , later FORON . After a long period of vacancy, the very dominant main building of the factory and the surrounding ancillary rooms (boiler house with high chimney, car hall, turbine house) are in an extremely dilapidated condition. Strangely enough, a monumental inscription from GDR times survives in fragments - but still legible - on the ruinous factory building: "Prosperity and peace - our great slogan."

Particularly regrettable is the decay of the poorly secured former home of the factory owners, the so-called manor house. The formerly very well-kept and representative parks are hardly recognizable as such. The pavilion in the park collapsed completely in the 1980s.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 13 ° 4'  E