Copper pine mill

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The copper pine mill

The Kupfersiefer Mühle is a former water mill . Today it is a district of Hope Valley in the town of Rösrath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

location

The mill building is located at Großhecker Weg 31 southeast of Lüghausen . Opposite is the Rösrath-Kupfersiefen forest kindergarten in an old quarry.

history

The Kupfersiefer Mühle was built in 1783 as a grain mill after Elector Karl Theodor had granted Dietrich Wimar Forstbach the concession to build a mill on the Kupfersiefer Bach in order to grind grain there. Because the stream often had only a low water level and therefore lacked the necessary drive power for the mill wheel, a schnapps distillery was also set up as a sideline since 1820.

The current buildings date from around 1850. For 1830, 20 inhabitants are mentioned here. Both branches of business, distillery and milling, were finally stopped around 1920. In the 1990s the listed buildings were renovated. In the mill cellar, in addition to the distillery, the old grinder with millstones, load lifters and drive wheels in a vaulted room have been preserved. The water wheel was renewed through an initiative of the Rösrath History Association and can now be set in motion with pumping. It is a crown gear with two grinding gears.

Mining

The Rudolphus pit , which was loaned to non-ferrous metals , was located in a well depth about a hundred meters west of the mill . This also includes copper , which may have contributed to the name of the mill.

monument

The building is entered under No. 63 as an architectural monument in the list of architectural monuments in Rösrath .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage Waldkindergarten Rösrath-Kupfersiefen Retrieved on April 1, 2018
  2. ^ Entry on copper pine mill in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on April 1, 2018.
  3. ↑ Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen, On the traces of water use in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg , Martina Galunder-Verlag, Wiehl 1998, ISBN 3-931251-36-5 , p. 258

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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 32.5 ″  E