Honsbacher Mill

Honsbacher Mill City of Lohmar Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	approx. 80 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	53797
Area code :	02206
Location of Honsbacher Mühle in North Rhine-Westphalia

Honsbacher Mühle is a watermill and a residential area that belongs to the town of Lohmar in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Honsbacher Mühle is located in the northeast of the urban area of ​​Lohmar. Surrounding towns and hamlets are Honsbach in the north and northeast, Neuhonrath in the east, southeast and southwest, Auel and Windlöck Castle in the southwest, Birken in the west, Honrath , Honrath Castle , Agger , Naafshäuschen and Honsbach in the northwest.

The Honsbach, an orographically left tributary of the Agger , flows alongside the Honsbacher Mühle. The Agger itself flows west along Honsbacher Mühle.

The mill used to be powered by a branch of the Hähnger brook, which also fed the reservoir in front of the water wheel.

history

The house of the Honsbacher Mühle was first mentioned in a document in the 17th century.

In 1885, Honsbacher Mühle had 17 residents who lived in three houses.

Until 1969, Honsbacher Mühle belonged to the previously independent municipality of Wahlscheid .

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Honsbacher Mühle was renovated by the married couple Gabriele and Robert Jeschke using old construction methods and materials. At that time there was a restaurant in the main house of the mill.

Attractions

The listed Honsbacher Mühle

The mill's water wheel has been lost. The mill's house was hewn in 1807/08. Since 1985 the Honsbacher Mühle has been used as an inn. Today it is a residential building.

Wayside cross

Donated in 1914 by the Kockerol siblings, owners of the Honsbacher Mühle, it bears the inscriptions:

	front	back
Crossroads Honsbacher Strasse at the corner of Kesselstrasse	Christ died for all . II Cor. 5.15.	Erected for the glory of God in memory of our parents, siblings Kockerol 1914

traffic

Honsbacher Mühle is located on Kreisstraße 16 , relatively close to federal highway 484 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Topographic map 1: 25000
2. ^ ^{A b c} Burghart Schmidt, Klaus Freckmann, Helmtrud Köhren-Jansen (eds.): On the trail of old houses . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-89445-298-8 , p. 229 ff . (Tree ring dating and construction method - Lohmar im Bergisches Land / Siebengebirge).
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province (PDF; 1.5 MB), Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau, 1888. p. 120.
4. ↑ Anita Imbusch: Honsbacher Mühle. In: Lohmarer Heimatblätter , Issue 12, 1998, ISSN  0931-0649 .
5. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Lohmar ( Memento of the original dated May 5, 2014 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. (PDF; 38 kB) 
6. ↑ Gerd Streichardt: When stones speak - wayside crosses in Lohmar . Ratio-Books, Lohmar 2011, ISBN 978-3-939829-23-2 , pp. 123 .
7. ↑ Lohmar NATURally. An annual walk through our rural town. Hermann Wenzel, Lohmar-Wahlscheid, accessed on February 6, 2015 (pictures and location of the wayside cross).