Koppenmühle (Darmstadt)
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 48 ′ 55 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 12" E | |
| Location | Darmstadt-Eberstadt | |
| Built | 1569 | |
| Shut down | 1952 | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| drive | Watermill | |
| water wheel | overshot | |
The Koppenmühle is a building in Darmstadt-Eberstadt . Today the mill is used exclusively for residential purposes. For architectural, industrial and urban history reasons, the building is a cultural monument .
History and description
The Koppenmühle was built in 1569 by the landgrave's serf Hans Kopp from Eberstadt. The flour mill was equipped with four overshot gears. In 1937 the mill was upgraded with a turbine . In 1952 the milling operation was stopped. The mill still supplies electricity for its own use .
The castle-like mill system - a design that connects all the mills of that time in the Modautal - is characterized by the main mill building, the high mill wall with gate construction, the main building and a new residential building (formerly stables). The two-storey, massive mill main building is made of quarry stone . The building is surrounded by a hipped gable roof crowned. The arched windows are framed by simple sandstone draperies.
The sandstone arch of the mill wall was designed with artistic stone carving . A sandstone miller's coat of arms adorns the gable triangle above the gate. The south facade of the mill is adorned with a sandstone relief from 1714. It depicts the Koppenmüller Johann Leonhard Hochschild and his wife Anna Catarina.
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 638.