Kihn mill (Michelbach)

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The Kihn mill , also called Köhl mill and originally a bridge mill , was a large mill near Alzenau in the Aschaffenburg district in Bavaria .

geography

The Kihn mill, which, in contrast to the earlier upper mill, was also called the lower mill , was located in the middle Kahlgrund in Michelbach on both sides of the Kahl . Shortly after the bridge in the direction of Kälberau there was a 30 m long weir . State road 2305 , which today is the Alzenau northern bypass, at the former location of the Kihn mill, did not yet exist when the mill was in operation. The property comprised several buildings. Today the Kahltal-Spessart-Radweg runs past the location of the former Kihn mill .

history

In 1731, Johann Adam Kihn acquired the bridge mill in Michelbach from the landlords at the time as a reward for his services as a count of the parish of Alzenau. His son Johannes Kihn expanded the mill. He was married to Anna Maria Stenger from Mömbris , with whom he had eleven children. He bequeathed the mill to Valentin Kihn , one of his sons, who expanded the bridge mill into a large mill in 1848. With his application and the subsequent concession from the royal district court in Alzenau , the former wage mill became a commercial mill . Valentin Kihn bought all of the other mills in Michelbach along with the Obermühle and the Herrnmühle and even acquired the adjoining Brenner mill . The cradle of his son Karl Kihn was in the bridge mill building, which was later converted into an office wing . The bridge mill was then called Kihn mill over the years.

Initially, two undershot water wheels turned there and the water level could be checked via two helicopter guns on the weir . There were several courses for grain and one for oil. Later, a coal-powered Lanz steam plant was installed. The water wheels were removed and the kahl was set in strong concrete walls. Valentin Kihn, as a member of the Bavarian State Parliament, campaigned for the construction of the Kahl – Schöllkrippen railway line , also to supply the grain for his mill with wagons. Large silos at today's station could store huge supplies. The Kihn mill was one of the first to run fully automatically, and even the grain was transported by machine. At that time, the Kihn mill was the most efficient mill in Lower Franconia . Valentin Kihn's son-in-law Franz Xaver Köhl joined the company in 1876, which continued to run the mill from 1901 after Valentin Kihn's death. The name of the company continued to be "Mühlenwerke Valentin Kihn".

In 1913, Franz Xaver Köhl bequeathed the company to his two sons Theodor and Carl Köhl, who continued to run it as a general partnership . Towards the end of the First World War , the mill not only supplied itself with electricity , but also the whole of Michelbach . In its size, the Kihn mill was the first in Germany to prepare the grist for the process in a modern MIAG grain washing and drying facility. Their output was an average of 250  quintals of wheat and 125 quintals of rye per day. Sometimes up to 60  t was reached. There was also a laboratory in the mill that examined grain and flour. In the 1920s there were financial problems in the company, as not enough grain could be bought with the income for the flour. Due to the German inflation , the Kihn company lost half of its cash capital. In 1962 the Kihn mill was expanded and in 1967 it was shut down despite everything. The grinding rights and customers were left to another large mill.

The buildings were left to their own devices and deteriorated. Despite several attempts at re-use, it never came to that. In the 2000s, there were proposals to build a shopping center into which the old buildings would be integrated. This was not possible because of the flood protection and the connection to the transport network. After the facility continued to fall into disrepair, the demolition was ordered after legal proceedings. The ruins of the building were then demolished in September 2011. The proposal arose to move the bed of the Kahl to the north at the location of the former Kihn mill and to develop a new building area there.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ First recording
  3. ↑ a b c Our Kahlgrund 1983 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  4. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1957 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  5. ↑ a b Main-Echo from September 15, 2011: Once one of the great mills in the country (fee required)

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 6.7 ″  E