Holtmühle

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Holtmühle
City of Wegberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 10 ″  N , 6 ° 17 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 65–67 m above sea level NN
Residents : 24  (Jun 30, 2012)
Postal code : 41844
Area code : 02434
Mill wheel of the Holtmühle
The Holtmühle with restaurant
Mill pond with boat rental

Holtmühle is a district of the Mittelstadt Wegberg in the district of Heinsberg in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Holtmühle is northeast of Wegberg outside of the Grenzlandring.

Neighboring places

Rickelrath JHQ Rheindahlen
Mönchengladbach
bush Neighboring communities Gatzweiler
Wegberg Beeck Ellinghoven

history

It seems to have got its name "Holtmühle" from its location in the still wooded area between Wegberg and Rheindahlen . It is no coincidence that the neighboring mill was called “Buschmühle” and the neighboring settlement “Busch”. It is unlikely that it was a sawmill for that reason. It is likely to have served much more as an oil and grain mill since 1397. It was only in her recent decades that she dealt exclusively with the grinding of grain. Since she had one of the largest reservoirs in the Wegberg area (except Tüschenbroich ), she had good prerequisites to be able to use her large medium-sized water wheel with a diameter of 6 m, which actually ran until 1954. Then the Holtmühle finally became an excursion restaurant. Experience in gastronomy was available. Already between 1870 and 1894 the Holtmüller ran a summer tavern, with coffee and free boat trips on the pond.

Infrastructure

In June 2011, 24 people lived in Holtmühle. The village of Holtmühle has a rural character and is located on Kreisstraße 10. A school and bus stop provides connections to the school and to Wegberg, Erkelenz and Mönchengladbach .

Attractions

  • Mill wheel; 6 m diameter
  • Mill pond; The boats lying on the lake are the property of SAV Wickrath eV

societies

  • Busch-Holtmühle village community
  • Wegberg volunteer fire brigade , also responsible for the village of Holtmühle
  • SAV-Wickrath e. V., angling club from Wickrath, cherishes the waters around the Holtmühle. The association is also responsible for the permanent maintenance of the historic mill wheel

literature

  • Wegberg cultural guide. City marketing team of the City of Wegberg, Wegberg 2007.
  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd, revised edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , p. 430.

Web links

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