Cuckoo Mill (Huy-Neinstedt)

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Cuckoo mill

Cuckoo Mill, 2012

Cuckoo Mill, 2012

Location and history
Kuckucksmühle (Saxony-Anhalt)
Cuckoo mill
Coordinates 51 ° 58 '13 "  N , 10 ° 55' 24"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 58 '13 "  N , 10 ° 55' 24"  E
Location Huy-Neinstedt
Waters Hohlebach
technology
use
water wheel Overshot
water wheel

The Cuckoo Mill is a Grade II listed water mill in the municipality of Huy in Saxony-Anhalt belonging to the district of Huy-Neinstedt . At the same time, it is run as the residential area of the district.

location

It is located about one kilometer northeast of Huy-Neinstedt am Hohlebach on the east side of the district road 1312 leading from Huy-Neinstedt to Anderbeck .

Architecture and history

Gate passage

The area has been used as a site for a water mill since the 15th century. It was a fief mill of the Huysburg monastery . Today's watermill has been preserved as a closed, half-timbered courtyard and dates from the second half of the 17th century, other data mention the 18th century. In 1783 minor modifications were made. Some functional technology, some of which is from the construction period, has been preserved. There is an overshot water wheel with a diameter of four meters. Elevators, two shot passages , a roller mill, an Askania sifter, a peeling machine, a wind sweep and a grinding and opening machine from the manufacturer Mühlenbau Nossen have also been preserved . Both the waterwheel and the shot gallery with an acceptance elevator are ready for use.

Until 1990 the cuckoo mill was operated commercially as a wage mill.

In the local register of monuments , the mill is listed as a monument under registration number 094 00123 .

literature

  • Falko Grubitzsch, Harald Kleunschmidt, List of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 2, District Halberstadt , Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation, Flyhead Verlag Halle 1994, ISBN 3-910147-61-5 , page 133.

Web links

Commons : Kuckucksmühle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Falko Grubitzsch, Harald Kleunschmidt, Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 2, Landkreis Halberstadt , Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation, Flyhead Verlag Halle 1994, ISBN 3-910147-61-5 , page 133
  2. Information on the cuckoo mill in the mill database of the German Society for Milling Customers and Mill Maintenance eV
  3. Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, page 1916.