Kieppemühle

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Die Kieppemühle 1824, lithograph by an unknown artist

The Kieppemühle , some also write Kippemühle , was initially a Pleißmühle , later a paper mill in the Gronau district of Bergisch Gladbach an der Strunde . The city of Bergisch Gladbach will set up a recycling center called Kippemühle here from 2017 .

history

The grinding Kotten mentioned in the article about the Gronauer Mühle was the original Kieppemühle as part of the Gronauer Hof. It is not known when a mill was first built on this slope, namely a peeling or polishing mill. When Everhard von Schlebusch became the leaseholder of the Gronauer Hof in 1483, Thönis Quadt was the leaseholder of this Pleißkotten. In 1524 Johann Kybbe and his wife Grietgen became tenants. The name Kybbemühle was popularly derived from this tenant, which then developed into Kieppemühle. During the Thirty Years War the Kieppemühle was expanded by twelve feet and converted into a powder mill . After the Thirty Years War, the powder mill had become the Pleißmühle again. Soon afterwards, Gottfried von Steinen (III) separated the Kieppemühle from the Gronauer Hof and acquired it as property for an unknown price. On July 9, 1670, he applied for a concession for a paper mill in place of the old Pleißkotten and soon began to build it.

Over the years the owners as well as the tenants changed. But it always stayed with paper production. The experienced papermaker Johann Wilhelm Aurelius Fues rebuilt the now obsolete mill and in 1812 bought two more Dutch mills . In order to be able to drive this, however, an umbach had to be dug, which branched off above the Gronauer Mühle and led around it to the Kieppemühle. Johanna Fues, Aurelius Fues' widowed daughter-in-law, married Karl August Koch on June 3, 1824, who was to manage the company from then on. He was an experienced businessman who brought the previously small company forward. On January 4, 1828, he leased his neighbor Johann Wilhelm Lommertzen's thin mill, initially for ten years, with a right of first refusal. He was now able to produce at two locations. He produced 28 types of paper that were not only sold in the Rhineland and Westphalia , but even as far as Saint Petersburg . In June 1843 he began the preparatory work for the installation of the first paper machine . Despite the use of a steam engine , the water power of the Strunde was also used.

The company was named after Eduard Poensgen in 1885, who married Aurelie Fues that year and became a partner in the company. The company was sometimes called Poensgen & Heyer, later also Poensgen & Co. Today the company that emerged from the Heyer paper business is called Römerturm. In 1922 the partnership was converted into a stock corporation. Production and the number of workers increased again, but the Great Depression of 1929/30 brought difficult times that lasted into the 1930s. During the Second World War , production came to a complete standstill in 1944 due to a lack of raw materials. The factories were badly damaged and partially destroyed. It was not until 1950 that the reconstruction of the plant could begin. The paper machine started up again in mid-1951. But the company never really got going again. In 1958 it was bought by the Waldhof pulp mill , which finally shut it down in 1966. All plant facilities were shut down.

Street name

The Kieppemühlenweg is named after the former Kieppemühle and was reached via this path from Alt Refrath .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pleiß von pleistern = plastering, smoothing, polishing with lime (armor had to be polished to be shiny and rust-resistant), see Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, German Dictionary, Leipzig 1854–1961, Volume 13, edited by Matthias von Lexer, Leipzig 1889, Reprint Munich 1991
  2. ^ A b c d Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills , published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV in collaboration with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, p. 126ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9
  3. ↑ Bergisch Gladbach waste management company, Kieppemühle recycling center, accessed on April 23, 2019
  4. ^ Römerturm company
  5. ↑ Products from Römerturm ( Memento from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach city history in street names , publisher. Stadtarchiv Bergisch Gladbach and Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, pp. 150f., ISBN 3-9804448-0-5

literature

  • Ferdinand Schmitz : The paper mills and paper makers of the Bergisch Strundertal , Bergisch Gladbach 1921
  • Determination and order for the Strunderbach, printed by Chr.Illinger, Bergisch Gladbach o. J., (it concerns the Bach order and the Bach protocol from 1823 after a copy from 1854)
  • Frank Schulte: The mills on the Strunde , Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-932326-02-4
  • Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen, On the traces of the use of water power in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg , Wiehl 1998, p. 246, ISBN 3-931251-36-5
  • Herbert Stahl (editor) and others: " Gronau ", Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-932326-51-6

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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '57.7 "  N , 7 ° 7' 6.4"  E