Tüddern grain mill

Kornmühle Tüddern in Selfkant-Tüddern

Location and history

Coordinates

51 ° 0 '47 " N , 5 ° 53' 36" E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '47 " N , 5 ° 53' 36" E

Location

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

District of Heinsberg

Selfkant municipality

Waters

Rodebach

Built

1654 to house Blumental

Shut down

1944 cessation of milling operations

technology

use

Flour mill

Grinder

2 grinding courses 1 oil press

drive

Watermill

water wheel

undershot

The corn mill Tüddern is a former on Rodebach preferred water mill with an undershot waterwheel in Selfkant , a rural community in North Rhine-Westphalia Heinsberg district .

geography

The Tüddern grain mill is located on the right side of the stream in Sittarder Straße 1–3, in the Tüddern district in the municipality of Selfkant. The area on which the mill building stands has a height of approx. 41 m above sea level . Neighboring mills are above the Vollmühle Tüddern and below the Millener Mühlen .

Waters

Up until the last century, the Rodebach supplied fourteen mills with water. The stream begins at a retention basin near Siepenbusch in the town of Übach-Palenberg at an altitude of 105 m above sea level. The Rodebach has a length of 28.9 km to its confluence with the Geleenbeek near Oud-Roosteren in the Netherlands . The mouth height is 29 m above sea level. The care and maintenance of the Rodebach and its tributaries is subject to the respective neighboring cities and communities. → See also Rodebach

history

According to tradition, the Tüddern grain mill dates from 1654 and was assigned to the lost Blumenthal house. It was a pure grain mill until 1830 , when it received an oil press in addition to its two grinding courses . The undershot water wheel, however, only allowed use in the exchange . At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, both Tüddern mills were owned by the Brandts family. In 1944 the grinding operation was stopped because of the approaching war. After the turmoil of the war , the mill was converted into a residential building. On the gable wall you can still read “Zur Alten Mühle” in iron letters .

gallery

"To the old Mill"
Rodebach near the grain mill
Tranchot card 1804/05

literature

Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 252-255.
Wilhelm Pieper: The last mill wheel on the Rodebach home calendar 1995 Heinsberg district p. 158–164
State survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia topographic map 1:50 000 L 5102 Geilenkirchen and L 5000 Selfkant, ISBN 3-89439-417-X

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