Langendonker Mill (Geldern)

Langendonker Mill (Geldern)
Castle ruins of Haus Langendonk
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 31 '47 "  N , 6 ° 23' 24"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '47 "  N , 6 ° 23' 24"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Kleve district City of Geldern
Waters	Issumer Fleuth
Built	before 1442
Shut down	2nd half of the 19th century
technology
use	Flour mill
Grinder	1 grind
drive	Watermill
water wheel	undershot

The Langendonker Mühle was a watermill located on the Issumer Fleuth in the city of Geldern with an undershot water wheel .

geography

The Langendonker Mühle was located on Issumer Fleuth, Aengenesch Langendonker Weg, in the Kapellen district , in the city of Geldern, in the Kleve district , in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The Issumer Fleuth has a height of approx. 22 m above sea ​​level here . The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the Niersverband , which is based in Viersen .

history

The Langendonk mill belonged to the Langendonk House, first mentioned in 1391 . In 1442 the mill was the subject of a declaration by Heinrich von Alpen, who confessed that he had received it as a fief from Count Friedrich IV von Moers . It is known from 1828 that the grain mill was operated with only one grinding cycle and, like all mills on the Fleuth, was without work in summer due to lack of water. This was then taken over by windmills . In the second half of the 19th century, the mill probably went under for the reasons mentioned above.

gallery

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  Langendonker Mühle on the new record in 1892

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  Langendonker Mühle on the original cadastral map 1844

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  Langendonker Mühle on the 1802 tranchot card

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 .
• Susanne Sommer: Mills on the Lower Rhine . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1113-3 .

Web links

Commons : Langendonker Mühle (Geldern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.niersverband.de/