Lindenmühle
The Lindenmühle was a watermill in Ahrweiler , which was driven by the flowing water Mühlenteich . The mill, founded in 1587, was the largest of the town's 12 water mills. After the mill was shut down in the 1920s and temporarily used as a factory, the mill building is now a hotel .
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The first seven mills built in Ahrweiler, including the Lindenmühle, were in stately ownership and belonged to the nobility or monasteries . The Lindenmühle, the fifth mill in town, belonged to the Counts of Blankenheim , who owned the Blankenheimer Hof in Ahrweiler . At that time it was called the Blankenheimer Mühle . With two grinding cycles , it was the largest mill in town, which at times also pressed oil and processed tannery . During the French period at the beginning of the 19th century, the court master Heimsoeth of the Counts of Blankenheim acquired the mill. In 1830 the Linden family bought the mill, from which the current name as Lindenmühle goes back. After the First World War , the mill was leased from the last miller's heirs to the miller Joseph Reuter. In the 1920s, the mill was acquired by a company that converted the mill building into a brush factory with a municipal grant of 10,000 marks . 1924, the company went through the great inflation during the Great Depression in bankruptcy. In 1925 Nikolaus Neiss founded a shoe factory in the mill, which ceased operations in 1941. Since the beginning of the 1950s, the Lindenmühle has been an accommodation business that is still owned by the Neiss family.
literature
- Jakob Rausch: Ahrweiler owned twelve mills in: Ahrweiler district's homeland yearbook , 1965 ( online )
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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '36.7 " N , 7 ° 6' 9.1" E