Klingenmühle (Welzheim)
The former Klingenmühle mill is located in the district of Welzheim on the upper reaches of the Wieslauf , the largest tributary of the Rems .
Geography and location
The blade mill was mentioned in documents as early as 1726 (Pentecost valuation register ad annum 1726, City A Welzheim VIII, 8) Built in the deep gorge ( blade ) of the upper Wieslauf as a grinding and sawmill . The grinding building and the water wheel are still there, but without an inlet channel, and nothing can be seen of the sawmill. The interior of the mill was completely modernized a few years ago and now houses an antique café, which is open in the summer season. The blade mill is located in a forest in the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park .
Justinus Kerner
According to tradition, the blade mill was a favorite place of the well-known Swabian poet and doctor Justinus Kerner during his work as senior doctor in Welzheim from 1812 to 1815. It inspired him to write his poem “The Wanderer in the Saw Mill”.
history
Due to its location in the deep, narrow gorge, the blade mill was not of great importance either as a saw or as a grinding mill. The poor traffic situation made transport very difficult and contributed to the fact that the mill was shut down a long time ago. How the logs were brought in and the finished boards and beams were brought up is a mystery today. However, the steep path from the Rudersberg - Welzheim road is still called "Eselsweg" today. Apparently donkeys were used for transport.
In the engine files you can read: 1863 intended construction of a grinding mill 300 meters above the previous mill, 1869 relocation of the sawmill, 1879 renewal of the dilapidated "Mühlwöhr" and a detailed description of the grinding and sawmill (until then never really kept apart). The sawmill is located 80 meters below the grinding mill. What continued to happen with the hydropower of the Wieslauf cannot be found in any engine file. The operator did not need to adhere to building regulations.
In 1923 a company in Stuttgart built a factory on Landstrasse. This company needed electricity for an electroplating plant . For this purpose, a reservoir was created above the gorge and a Voith Francis spiral turbine with 65 hp was installed. When this company went bankrupt, the Bauknecht company took over the factory in October 1937 and also bought the old blade mill down in the gorge in order to set up two apartments for executives there. At this point in time, according to Georg Schmied, the mill was still intact, but no longer in operation. The remains of a large water wheel were still there; a little further down the wall of the sawmill could still be seen.
The turbine was in full operation at Bauknecht. Over time, a power line was laid to the Welzheim plant. This line also had a connection to the Welzheim dairy. When the public power supply collapsed after the Second World War, the electricity from the Wieslauf kept the dairy cooling systems running.
After the war, Bauknecht expanded the upper reservoir and strengthened the pipelines. Georg Schmied specifies the gradient as 56 meters. In water-rich months, up to 70,000 kilowatt hours of electricity could be generated per month. Bauknecht used the system to intercept peak electricity and thus be able to negotiate a favorable tariff with the E-Werk.
On the occasion of Gottlob Bauknecht's 60th birthday in 1954, a water wheel was reinstalled on the blade mill at the old location. In the 1970s, a couple of young people climbed into this bike for fun, including a 16-year-old French man who had a fatal accident. The historic blade mill came to Bauknecht in private ownership. The turbine system was shut down and fell apart.
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '6 " N , 9 ° 36' 0.6" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.klingenmuehle.com
- ↑ Wanderwalter
- ^ Environment theme park, Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport Baden-Württemberg
- ↑ Welzheimer Zeitung (March 2006 by Rainer Stütz) on www.schwaebisch-sibirien.de ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
