Charterhouse Mill (Erfurt)
The Carthusian mill was an oil mill operated by the water of the Gera in the Straße des Friedens 22, Erfurt . The mill operation, which had already started at this point in the Middle Ages , was discontinued in 1935; during the GDR era it was the seat of PGH Elektrohandwerk Licht und Kraft Erfurt. The listed building from 1873 was demolished in December 2015.
location
The Carthusian Mill was located on the Walkstrom , one of the three arms of the Gera that now flow through the city of Erfurt . Further to the southwest, in the original swamp area, there is the Dreienbrunnenpark , which was reclaimed in the 15th century and converted into a rural pleasure garden since the 17th century , in which the Gera divides into its three arms Bergstrom , Walkstrom and the flood ditch created in the 19th century . To the north-west of this, the hills of the former citadel Cyriaksburg , which is now the site of the Erfurt Horticultural Exhibition , join, while further south the Steigerwald rises about 100 meters above the Gera valley.
history
The first mill at the junction of the Hirschlache from the Walkstrom, an artificially created canal in the early 12th century, can be traced back to 1291. The deer pit was cased in the 19th century and disappeared with the construction of the Juri Gagarin ring .
In 1434 the mill was acquired by Gottschalk Paradies, a monk in the nearby Carthusian monastery , which is why the mill was sometimes also called the Paradiesmühle . Over the centuries, new buildings have been erected at this point; it is assumed that there were at least three previous buildings to the current building. Around 1800 the impoverished monastery sold the mill in private ownership.
In 1826, the city of Erfurt introduced “figuring of the properties”. The Carthusian Mill became No. 1 of 3050 properties at that time. However, this count no longer applies today.
The buildings to be found until 2015 were completely rebuilt in 1873 after a major fire in 1872. A modern industrial mill with a length of 40 meters, 3 full storeys and a loft was built. In addition to the actual mill, a refinery was set up so that the crude oil obtained can be processed further on site.
With the advent of electricity and corresponding, cheap and year-round electric drives that were independent of the watercourse, the operation of the mill became increasingly unprofitable in the beginning of the 20th century. Eventually it had to cease operations in 1935. The last mill owner was Otto Filß from 1926, who also ran the "Heilige-Grabes-Mühle". The remaining millstones disappeared around 1950.
From 1919 several families lived in the spacious mill building, including the painter and graphic artist Alfred Hanf . He also set up his printing workshop here. Here, among other things, he designed his famous emergency money for Erfurt, for the inflation period from 1919 to 1923.
During the Second World War , the main building also served as a hospital . PGH Elektrohandwerk Licht und Kraft Erfurt later moved into the building , which was dissolved after the fall of the Berlin Wall . The buildings have been empty since 1992.
In 2006 the property was acquired by an architecture and construction project company in order to convert it into a residential and commercial property by 2013. The mill building had meanwhile been placed under monument protection. On June 20, 2011, there was a fire in the building, but it was extinguished after an hour.
On October 25, 2011 it became known that the owner wanted to demolish the mill building against the will of the responsible monument authorities and replace it with new buildings. The city of Erfurt as the lower monument protection authority refused to demolish on the basis of a statement by the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology . After an objection by the investor, the Lower Monument Protection Authority was nevertheless obliged by the Thuringian State Administration as the Upper Monument Protection Authority to approve the demolition.
The Carthusian Mill used to be (as old photos show) a brightly painted, friendly looking house, with the large inscription “Carthusian Mill” in Fraktur. In the last few decades it was covered with gray plaster, smeared over a large area and looking increasingly neglected. There were illegal residents in the house, whose presence was also shown by extensive graffiti on the interior walls. On April 5, 2015, the building was badly damaged by a roof fire, after which it was not secured by an emergency roof. In December 2015 it was demolished using heavy technology.
Hard limestone stones of the ground floor masonry were "made available" free of charge to the Petersberg Citadel for its wall renovation.
literature
- Eberhard Menzel: On the history of the Karthauser mill . City and History (Erfurt), SuG 2/02, 2000, p. 26
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Desire for Erfurt's house number 1. Special ad publication of the Thuringian regional newspaper, June 16, 2009
- ^ Roof fire in Carthusian mill in Erfurt. In: Thuringian General . April 6, 2015, accessed October 13, 2016 .
- ^ Anne Martin: Investor wants to tear down Kartäusermühle in Erfurt Thüringer Allgemeine, Erfurt October 25, 2011
- ↑ Mill demolition "devastating" . Thuringian General, October 27, 2014
- ^ Karsten Grobe: Millstones for the Petersberg . Thuringian newspaper, February 3, 2016
- ↑ Carthusian mill is now being demolished . Thuringian newspaper, December 9, 2015
- ↑ Karsten Grobe: "Millstones" for the Petersberg. Bricks from the Carthusian mill were donated for the renovation of the fortress . Thuringian newspaper, February 3, 2016
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 6 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 4 ″ E