Lüftelberger mill

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The mill with the renewed mill wheel in 2015

The Lüftelberger Mühle is the former castle mill of Lüftelberg Castle . It is located in Meckenheim-Lüftelberg in a depression opposite the castle at Schloßstraße 6 and is now used as a residential building. The building has been a listed building since 1987.

history

The mill is mentioned for the first time in the Electoral CologneState description from 1664. It belonged to the moated castle about 50 meters away. Presumably the building was built on the foundations of an older courtyard. Wheat, barley and rye were ground and baked here until the mid-1930s. Villagers used the attic to dry their clothes. The mill building was used as a residential building until 1992, at which point the internal mill technology had already been removed. After a few years of vacancy, the owner of the castle, Carl-Hubertus von Jordans, sold the property, which was in dire need of renovation, to Birgit and Lothar Kleipaß in the mid-1990s. The couple renovated the mill building in the following years. In 2009 the Lüftelberger village community financed the construction and assembly of a new mill wheel on the outside of the building.

Mühlengraben

The approximately 2 kilometer long, preserved mill ditch is derived from the Swistbach and begins in what is now the Kottenforst industrial park . It also served to supply the moats with water and was originally a fief of the Cassius monastery . The mill's drainage ditch is still there, while today there is a meadow in the place of the mill pond above the mill .

The functional mill wheel

Mill wheel

The renewed mill wheel has a diameter of 4.70 meters, a width of 85 centimeters and a total weight of three tons (2.5 tons of steel, 500 kilograms of wood). The total costs for production and installation amounted to 72,000 euros. The inauguration took place in September 2009 on the occasion of the Open Monument Day .

The illuminated mill wheel for the "Night of Light" campaign

The mill wheel was illuminated in red on June 22, 2020. The lighting was part of the nationwide “Night of Light” campaign.

description

The mill building is a free-standing half-timbered building. It is laid out on two floors and has a ring of thresholds separating the floors . The entrance is designed like a gate, on the eaves side there is a semicircular beam lintel. The windows on the ground floor were enlarged in the 19th century and the gable side was clad with brick in more recent times ; There is an embedded coat of arms of the castle owner family Vorst-Lombeck. The back of the mill is partially plastered, whereby the clay rod filling has been partially preserved; it was largely replaced by a later brick infill. The roof structure and roofing are old. The ensemble also includes sheds made of brick.

Web links

Commons : Lüftelberger Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Mill in Lüftelberg , website of the Rhenish Mill Documentation Center eV (RMDZ)
  • Speech by Klaus Weiler (Lüftelberger Dorfgemeinschaft eV,) on the occasion of the inauguration of the new mill wheel on September 13, 2009

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gabriele von Törne, Mühlentag in Lüftelberg: Between Klappern and Klönen , May 26, 2015, Kölnische Rundschau
  2. ^ Irene Krüger, mills and mill locations in the area of ​​Meckenheim , website of the Pro Obere Mühle Meckenheim eV
  3. ↑ Mühlradprojekt - data and images , website Lüftelberger Village Community Association

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '53.4 "  N , 7 ° 0' 5.7"  E