Klusensteiner Mill
The Klusensteiner Mühle is a historical technical monument in the Hönnetal in the Sauerland . With the walls of the basement and middle storey, it is probably the oldest secular building in the town of Balve in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . It can be found in a romantic location below Klusenstein Castle in the Hönnetal nature reserve in one of the most important karst areas in Germany. The most beautiful view of the mill with its half-timbered facade is from the hiking trail on the opposite side of the Hönne.
The oldest written mention of the Klusensteiner Mühle so far is in a document dated June 25, 1704, which confirms that Christian Friedrich von Haxthausen was enfeoffed by the Cologne Cathedral Chapter with the house and village of Eisborn in 1653 . The fiefdom included, among other things, the "mill on the halls [= slope] under the Clausenstein on the Hönnen".
There is much to suggest that since the construction of the castle, which is 1500 meters south on the Reckenberg, by the Lords of Binolen around 1120, the construction of a nearby mill can also be expected.
In the feudal period, the Klusensteiner Mühle belonged to the Eisborn manor, which was held by the lords of Binolen, Hanxleden and Haxthausen. As a powerful grain mill with overshot water wheel, it supplied Eisborn and the surrounding area until the 1960s.
The restless building structure points to an eventful history. In particular, the lack of quarry stone walls on the river side and replaced by half-timbering in the basement and middle storey is striking.
In the 18th century there were devastating Hönne floods, probably as a result of the previous excessive deforestation. The mill had to be rebuilt in 1707, 1740, 1774 and 1815.
In 1912 the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke acquired the mill from Count Landsberg-Velen as part of the development of the Hönnetal for industrial use. They filled up the street-side area, added heights to the building and provided it with a Francis turbine (14.4 kW) and a 110 V generator to power Klusenstein Castle. The energy generated has been fed into the power grid since 1990.
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Individual evidence
- ^ General archive of Landsberg-Velen (Dep.), Erwitte - documents, no. 263
- ↑ Around the year 1300 Hermann von Binolen was entrusted with a mill as a fief by the Count von Arnsberg as one of five of 141 feudal recipients. Document book on the regional and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia, ed. by Johann Suibert Seibertz, Ritter 1843, p. 108
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '50.79 " N , 7 ° 51' 11.61" E
