List of watermills in Pfronten

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The following list of watermills in Pfronten contains watermills (historical hydropower plants) in Pfronten in the Bavarian-Swabian district of Ostallgäu . The mills are powered by the waters of the Lazy Ach , the Droughts Ach and the Vils .

Flour mills

The mills were primarily used to grind grain with mostly two grinding stages and one tanning stage for peeling barley . Often they also included a sawmill and a bone pounder . Although the grinding mills can only be documented here at the end of the 16th century, they certainly came into being much earlier. All old mills in Pfronten had municipal rights .

Lazy Oh

  • Moss mill ⊙
First mentioned in 1576 as "Müllen unter Cappell"; canceled at the beginning of the 20th century
  • Lenzemühle ⊙
First mentioned in 1645; canceled before 1900
  • Kaspars Mill ⊙
First mention of Müller Leonhard Haslach; Mill before 1945, saw shut down before 1960
  • Stoffelsmühle ⊙
First mention of Müller Martin Seuter in 1587; Operation before 1945? shut down

In 1612 a "Schneggenmühle" is called in Pfronten-Meilingen. It is either identical to the Lenzemühle or to the Kasparsmühle, probably with the latter. Scholz also lists a grinding mill called "Raiserjörge" between the Lenze mill and the Kaspars mill, which was demolished around 1740. This message cannot be substantiated by files.

Drought ah

  • Driendlmühle ⊙
First mentioned in 1592; shut down
  • Josemühle ⊙
New building 1702; Mill before 1925, saw shut down before 1990, now: power generation

Vils

  • Bläsismühle ⊙
First mentioned in 1589; closed as a button factory around 1956, since 2004: mill museum

Plaster mills, saws

  • All of these hydropower plants were built shortly before or soon after 1800 and therefore no longer received parish rights.
  • The hydropower plants, which were powered by the water from the Dürren Ach, are all located on a works canal that is derived from the Dürren Ach above Felixe-Säge.
  • Only the drop mill is an exception in both respects.
Surname Art Location comment
Lazy Oh
Jigsaw Plaster mill / saw ⊙ Pl. No. 495 called 1828, canceled; now: Heer company premises
Axis saw Grinding mill / saw ⊙ Pl. No. 1216 Canceled in 1910
Saliter saw saw ⊙ Panoramaweg 14 (as a man saw?) built in 1841; still in operation
Drought ah
Fall Mill Plaster mill / saw ⊙ Achtalstrasse 62 Built in 1782 as an oil mill; well: power generation
Felixe saw saw ⊙ Gschönweg 10 built before 1830 ?, rebuilt in 1889; well: power generation
Bader's plaster mill (Hammer forge) / plaster mill / saw ⊙ Gschönweg 11 and 13 shut down, now: power generation
Polishing mill Plaster mill / mech. Workshop ⊙ Gipsmühlweg 15 shut down
Eberle-Mühle (cement mill) Plaster mill / mech. Workshop ⊙ Gipsmühlweg 13 used as a warehouse
Wannemacher's mill Plaster mill ⊙ Pl.- No. 1127 built 1805; canceled
Semeler's saw saw ⊙ Pl.- No. 1128/4 built around 1870; now: electrically in operation
Friedrichsturm (Veste and Lixe Gipsmühlen) Plaster mill ⊙ Scheiberweg 32 built in 1832; now: shut down
Steiger's saw Plaster mill ⊙ Krokusweg 9 built before 1842; closed
Karolusse (Wanger's plaster mill) Plaster mill / saw ⊙ Krokusweg 11 built in 1828; shut down after 1910
Lower tub maker (at the hunter's) Plaster mill / mech. Workshop ⊙ Tiroler Strasse 139 built in 1821; shut down, now: power generation
Steinhauser saw (carpenter's saw) Plaster mill / saw ⊙ Z Firmenweg 11 built before 1848; electrically in operation
Vils
Mountain and valley saw ⊙ Vilstalstrasse 93 built in 1878; shut down soon before 1970
Schocher's saw (Ernle saw) saw ⊙ Vilstalstrasse 91 built around 1850; closed in 1966 ?, now: power generation
Locksmith's saw saw ⊙ Vilstalstrasse 89 built around 1850; shut down in 1965
Stone saw between locksmith's saw and blow mill existed according to Scholz around 1850
Randel saw saw ⊙ Vilstalstrasse 71 built in 1932; now in operation electrically and generating electricity

Hammer forging

  • Pan forge ⊙
also weapons and scythe smiths, first mentioned in 1595; shut down
  • Hammer forge in the Ob ⊙
First mentioned in 1588; Closed in 1928 (new building in Weidach)
  • Hammerschmiede am Walk ⊙
First mentioned in 1550 (as Paul Wetzer's forge), later part of Josemühle; now power generation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Thaddäus Steiner: Historical book of place names, Füssen . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2005 ISBN 3-7696-6861-8
  2. ^ Bertold Pölcher: Lenzenmühlenweg . In: Pfronten Mosaik (information and news from the municipality of Pfronten), issue 51, 2009
  3. ↑ Pfronten municipal archive: Tax description 1675
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Liborius Scholz: Mill and waterworks owners and their changes over the centuries in Pfronten . In: Pfrontener Bote No. 22, 1910
  5. ↑ Pfronten parish archive: files A 052 (1702DI03)
  6. ↑ Pfronten municipal archive: Competitive role 1828
  7. ↑ Main State Archives Augsburg HA NA A 2301
  8. ↑ a b Documents in the possession of the Kretschmer family (Pfronten), edited by Bertold Pölcher (Document No. 5)
  9. ↑ municipal archives Pfronten: Cargo exchange book, A 048, record first quarter 1842/43
  10. ↑ Pölcher archive: blueprint (copy)
  11. ↑ Pfronten parish archive: files 070 (1828DM01)
  12. ↑ First mention in: Pfronten municipal archive: municipal invoices 1848/49
  13. ↑ Ludwig Holzner: History of the community Pfronten , community Pfronten (ed.) 1956, p. 65
  14. ↑ Pfronten municipal archive: Protocol book 1636, fol. 139f
  15. ↑ Pfronten municipal archive: Protocol book 1636, fol. 102f
  16. ↑ Pfronten municipal archive: files 052 (1702DI03)

literature

  • Liborius Scholz: (Chronicle of Pfronten) Mill and waterworks owners and their changes over the centuries in Pfronten . In: (entertainment sheet for) Pfrontener Bote, Verlag J. Gimber Nesselwang, No. 22, 1910
  • Bertold Pölcher: Memory of the hydropower plants along the Dürren Ach . In: Around the Falkenstein (bulletin of the Heimatverein Pfronten). 1st part: No. 22, p. 437; Part 2: No. 23, p. 465; 3rd part: 24, p. 497 and addendum: No. 25 (1990), p. 546