Almosmühle
The Almosmühle is a wasteland around a former grain mill in the Altmühltal in the municipality of Walting ( Eichstätt district ).
location
The hamlet is located on the connecting road between Pfünz and Inching , wedged between the Altmühl and its northern edge of the valley, about one kilometer from Pfünz.
description
Karst springs
At the foot of a mighty, overhanging dolomite rock washed out by the original Danube , five karst springs emerge here at a height of 400 meters above sea level , which, merged into a stream, once drove a mill. The bed is 35 liters per second. For the Almosmühler series of spring outlets from fissures in the Malm Delta , tracer tests have shown that they have connections to ponordolines on the plateau. The clear spring water, the temperature of which never rises above 10 ° C and flows off to the Altmühl, is rich in aquatic and bank plants, e. B. the water celery / upright berle ( Berula erecta ), whose pinnate leaves grow partly under water, the swamp forget-me-not ( Myosotis pahestris ) and the water mint ( Mentha aquatica ). This vegetation indicates nutrient abundance and thus contamination of the water in the spring catchment area on the water-permeable Alb plateau. Flea shrimp up to two centimeters long live between the aquatic plants . The source situation is one of over 2000 Bavarian geotopes and has the number 176Q001.
Mill
Today the former mill is used for agriculture; you can also book a “ farm holiday ” here . On the Jura plateau above the Almosmühle, the nearby Pfünz Castle youth center of the Eichstätt diocese has been running a youth camp site today made up of wooden huts since the 1950s.
history
The mill was first mentioned in a document in 1282, when the Pfünz Truchsessen pledged a meadow near the “Almusenmühle” to Eichstätter Bishop Reimboto . It was in operation until 1930, then water power was used to generate electricity until 1957 . Since 1974/75, when the road between the mill and the rock was expanded, which today also serves as the Altmühltal cycle path , one of the springs has emerged in the property's courtyard below the street level. The other four springs are united under the road to the valley floor.
literature
- Legends and legends from the Eichstätter district . Eichstätt: Brönner and Daentler 1929, p. 19
- Sign for the wetland educational trail Landershofen - Pfünz an der Quelle
- The Eichstätter area past and present. Eichstätt 1973, p. 126
- Peter Leuschner: Favorite motif “Almosmühle”. The monument conservator, architect, painter and photographer Heinrich Ullmann (1872 to 1953) has depicted no other Jura house ensemble as often as the Almosmühle near Pfünz (Eichstätt district) on the Altmühl. In: Das Jura-Haus 5 (1999/2000), pp. 78–81
Web links
- Chronicle Almosmühle
- Photos and legend of the Almosmühle
- About the geotope
- Painter and photographer Heinrich Ullmann
Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ' N , 11 ° 16' E