Krallsmühle

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Krallsmühle

The Krallsmühle on the original cadastral map

The Krallsmühle on the original cadastral map

Location and history
Krallsmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Krallsmühle
Coordinates 51 ° 11 '36 "  N , 6 ° 26' 45"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '36 "  N , 6 ° 26' 45"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
Waters Gladbach
Built First documented mention in 1210
Shut down 1881 Destroyed in a major fire
technology
use Flour mill and cotton mill
Grinder 2 grinding courses
drive 2 water wheels and 1 steam engine
water wheel undershot

The Krallsmühle was a water mill with at times two undershot water wheels and a steam engine on the Gladbach in the city of Mönchengladbach .

geography

The Krallsmühle was located on the left side of the Gladbach, on today's Erzbergerstraße. In front of the mill were two mill ponds . The Vitgesmühle was located above, the tube mill was below . The area on which the mill building stood has a height of approx. 50 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Gladbach, (GEWKZ 28614), which is also the namesake of the city of Mönchengladbach, has been an important lifeline for centuries. It supplied the residents and a total of eight mills with water and was the origin of the flourishing textile industry in Mönchengladbach. The approximately 6.3 km long Gladbach rises in Waldhausen , crossed the districts of Pesch and Lürrip and flowed into the Niers at Uedding . Today it is mostly piped and flows from Volksbadstrasse at 1,904 m as an open channel along the Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf railway line to the Niers. The catchment area of ​​the body of water is 26.208 km 2 . The care and maintenance of the water is incumbent on NEW AG .

history

The Krallsmühle was also mentioned for the first time in 1210, when Abbot Hermann I (1190–1200) acquired the mill together with the Supreme Mill and the Flieschermühle from his own funds and bequeathed it to the monks' convent . The names of the tenants were often decisive for the naming of the mills. The Krallsmühle was also called Horn Mühle , Knormühle , Mertensmühle and Ryher Mühle . Two mill ponds were in front of the undershot mill.

During the Thirty Years' War the mill fell in flames in 1642. Only poorly repaired, the mill was completely rebuilt by Abbot Lambert Raves (1772–1799). In the course of secularization , the mill was sold to Johann Krall for 25,700 francs . The mill had two water wheels and therefore so much power that it was converted into a cotton mill in 1820 . In 1932 the Horn brothers expanded the mill and built a steam engine in a machine house . In 1881 the mill burned down completely in a major fire. The end was sealed.

gallery

  • Former location of the Krallsmühle

  • There was a mill pond here

  • The Krallsmühle on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

  • The Gladbach as an open channel

  • Signs show the course of the Gladbach canal

  • The Gladbach flows into the Niers

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide , 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , p. 500.
  • Robert Lünendonk: On the trail of the Gladbach and its mills . 2008, ISBN 3-8375-0030-6 , 1st edition, pp. 60-61.
  • Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills . 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pp. 66-70.

Web links

Commons : Krallsmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls