Horster Mill (Heinsberg)

This article describes the Horster mill in Heinsberg. For the mill of the same name in Essen-Horst, see the Horster Mühle hydroelectric power station .

Horster mill
The Horster mill in Heinsberg-Horst
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 1 '47 "  N , 6 ° 10' 44"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '47 "  N , 6 ° 10' 44"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Heinsberg Heinsberg
Waters	Worm , boy worm
Built	1492
Shut down	1958
technology
use	Grain and woad mill
Grinder	1 grind
drive	1 water wheel
water wheel	undershot

The Horster Mühle was a watermill on the Junge Wurm in the city of Heinsberg in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The Horster mill had its location on the boys worm , Mühlenteichstraße 9, in the district Horst (Heinsberg) in the town of Heinsberg. The property on which the mill building stood has a height of approx. 50 m above sea ​​level . In front of the mill was a mill pond. Above was the Brünkers mill in Randerath , below is the location of the valley mill in Dremmen .

Waters

The Junge Wurm was a body of water that ran more or less parallel to the Wurm . The junction from the Wurm was in Nirm, a district of the city of Geilenkirchen . Here the worm has a height of 54 m above sea level. The river Junge Wurm, also known as the Kleine Wurm , flowed in a north-northwest direction via Randerath , Horst , Porselen , Dremmen , Grebben , Heinsberg , Kempen and Karken across the German - Dutch border towards Vlodrop and empties at an altitude of 29 m above sea level on Dutch territory into the Rur . It was a natural body of water in which humans had a hand in many places. The Junge Wurm was connected to the Heinsberg moat , the mill canal, the Liecker brook and the mill brook . This composite body of water served for surface drainage and the benefit of the people. For centuries there were around 15 water mills on the Junge Wurm, with a slope of 26 m between Randerath and Karken. With the worm straightening in the 1960s and 1970s, the young worm disappeared from the maps . Instead, drainage channels and trenches were created. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of 355.518 km ² .

history

The lordly mill at Horst belonged to the local Fronhof , which was named as early as 1372. The mill was first mentioned in a document from 1492. It was a grinding mill and equipped with a compulsory meal for the places Horst, Porselen and parts of Randerath. In the period from 1500 to the 18th century, the Horster Mühle also had a woad mill , in which a blue color for textile dyeing was obtained from the crushed leaves of the woad plants . With the import of indigo in the 17th / 18th centuries In the 19th century the cultivation of woad was stopped. Around 1800 the Lambertz family took over the Horster mill. In 1958 the milling operation was stopped.

gallery

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  Horster Mühle, now a residential building

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  Old millstone at the Horster mill

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  Today's worm below the Horster mill

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  Horst on the first recording from 1846

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  Horster Mühle on the new recording from 1892

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  Horst on the tranchot card 1805/1807

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 305-306.
• Elisabeth Nobis-Hilgers: The Miller von Horst , home calendar of the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg. 1957 pages 87-97

See also

• List of mills on the worm

Web links

Commons : Horster Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the city of Heinsberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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.  
3. ↑ http://www.wver.de/