Kradepohlsmühle

Letterhead from CF Wachendorf with a drawing of the Kradepohlsmühle 1895

The Kradepohlsmühle was a paper mill in the Gronau district of Bergisch Gladbach an der Strunde .

history

The word Kradepohl is made up of the two dialect words Krad (pronounced Kraat) = toad (in the broader sense also frog) and Pohl = pond. It is therefore a geographical place where the frogs croak in a pond.

The first mill that stood here was a grinding and peeling mill. In 1602 it was called "Volmühl" ( full mill ) and in 1615 as "Schlyf Müll" (grinding mill), while soon afterwards it was converted into a powder mill during the Thirty Years' War . The following text can be found in the waiter's invoice from 1744/45: “Another pulvermühl zu Duiderath am Kradenpohl is responsible for those who were inherited from Schonenberg, who are also based on the aforementioned old privilege, but since this mill was aptiret (converted) in 1740 to Vollmühlen , so I take it to reception 56 ( Albus ). “After the powder mill was no longer lucrative enough, they reverted to using it as a full mill. In 1773 the full mill was referred to as the oil and fur full mill (leather full mill ), had an undershot water wheel , a water gradient of one foot and six inches .

Since 1740 the mill has belonged to Heinrich Schnabel from the Schnabelsmühle named after him . He wanted to use the mill to prepare rag pulp and thus increase the capacity of the Schnabelsmühle, but it was only his grandson Franz Heinrich Fauth who completed the plan. Karl Friedrich Wachendorff acquired the Kradepohlsmühle in the middle of the 19th century. He set up an old cardboard machine and, with up to six workers, produced 300 to 400 kg of cardboard a day from rags and paper waste. To make the business more profitable, he bought a new cylinder Cardboard and paper machine he first with a traction engine , later with a 30-hp stationary steam engine drive. In addition to cardboard , Schrenz and other cheap packaging papers were now produced. Despite a few setbacks, the company grew into a modern, medium-sized company for cardboard and wrapping paper.

After the company's founder died in 1915, his sons Fritz and Max took over the management. Now waterproof packing paper and crepe paper were also produced. A steadily growing success set in. In 1939 the company had 150 employees and an annual turnover of 2.5 million Reichsmarks . Since the company was largely spared from damage in the Second World War , production began again soon after the end of the war. In order to be prepared for the competition, the operating facilities were gradually modernized at an early stage. In 1989 the company had around 240 employees who produced around 6,000 tons of specialty papers valued at over DM 40 million. On the other hand, there were successor problems, so that the plant was sold on April 1, 1990 to the listed Wanderer-Werke . The safeguarding of the site and jobs planned in 1989 did not last long. After the sale of large, undeveloped parts of the factory premises in plots, the Wachendorff paper mill was closed at the end of 2003, and its building and the rest of the property on the Kradepohlsmühle have since been used as industrial sites by many smaller companies.

Street name

The city of Bergisch Gladbach named the Kradepohlsmühlenweg after this mill before 1918.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills . Ed .: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V. in cooperation with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives. Bergisch Gladbach 2012, ISBN 3-932326-67-9 , p. 143 ff .
↑ Pleiß von pleistern = plastering, smoothing, polishing with lime (armor had to be polished to be shiny and rust-resistant), see Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, German Dictionary, Leipzig 1854–1961, Volume 13, edited by Matthias von Lexer, Leipzig 1889, Reprint Munich 1991, column 1931
^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach city history in street names. Ed .: Stadtarchiv Bergisch Gladbach and Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V. Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5 , p. 114 f.

literature

Ferdinand Schmitz : The paper mills and paper makers of the Bergisch Strundertal. Bergisch Gladbach 1921.
Determination and order for the Strunderbach, printed by Chr.Illinger, Bergisch Gladbach o. J., (it concerns the Bach order and the Bach protocol from 1823 after a copy from 1854)
Frank Schulte: The mills on the Strunde. Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-932326-02-4 .
Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen, On the trail of the use of hydropower in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg. Wiehl 1998, ISBN 3-931251-36-5 , p. 246.
Herbert Stahl (editor) and others: Gronau . Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-932326-51-6 .

Web links

Schluchter Heide accessed on April 25, 2015

50.981226 7.104168Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 52.4 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 15 ″ E

[Brenner-1] Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills . Ed .: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V. in cooperation with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives. Bergisch Gladbach 2012, ISBN 3-932326-67-9 , p. 143 ff .

[2] Pleiß von pleistern = plastering, smoothing, polishing with lime (armor had to be polished to be shiny and rust-resistant), see Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, German Dictionary, Leipzig 1854–1961, Volume 13, edited by Matthias von Lexer, Leipzig 1889, Reprint Munich 1991, column 1931

[3] Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach city history in street names. Ed .: Stadtarchiv Bergisch Gladbach and Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V. Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5 , p. 114 f.