Locher mill

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Remains of the former Locher Mühle
photo taken in 2012

The Locher Mühle , known as the place name Lochermühle , is a former factory site of the Rheinische Wollspinnerei in the Sand district of Bergisch Gladbach an der Strunde . This is where the so-called Strunde Park is located today, with businesses and shopping centers.

history

The oldest mention of a Pleißmühle comes from the warehouse book of the Laurentius parish Bergisch Gladbach in 1595. It must have lost its function in the Thirty Years War , because in 1731 a powder mill is mentioned here. After 1743 a new owner had another powder mill built below the old mill, which was driven by two overshot water wheels. Around 1795 the mill shattered (exploded) or was destroyed by French troops. After 1804, Johann Anton Kolter built a fulled cloth mill , which he expanded to include a wool spinning mill with a dye works and a weaving mill .

The carded yarn and merino spinning mill from Hövel & Co. around 1900
Letterhead from the vom Hövel company from 1885

In 1852, the company vom Hövel & Co. appeared, initially as a tenant for the mixed operation, which from now on built up a pure wool spinning mill. In 1862, Hövel bought the previously leased operating facilities. At first fine cheviot yarns were produced, later also mohair and cashmere yarns . The main propulsion system was now a locomobile and soon afterwards a steam engine . The mill had now become a factory.

In 1902 the company became Berg in Rheinische Woll-Spinnerei. Renamed Gladbach GmbH . After the currency reform in 1948 , production was switched to carded yarns for the cloth industry and jersey knitting as well as carpet and special yarns for decorative fabrics. The Lochermühle wool spinning mill , as it was popularly known, was not spared the decline of the textile industry in Germany . Production was stopped on December 31, 1973.

See also

literature

  • Determination and order for the Strunderbach, printed by Chr.Illinger, Bergisch Gladbach o. J., (it concerns the Bach order and the Bach protocol from 1823 after a copy from 1854)
  • Frank Schulte: The mills on the Strunde , Bergisch Gladbach, 1979, ISBN 3-932326-02-4
  • Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen, On the traces of the use of water power in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg , Wiehl 1998, p. 246, ISBN 3-931251-36-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach city history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 178
  2. ↑ Pleiß von pleistern = plastering, smoothing, polishing with lime (armor had to be polished to be shiny and rust-resistant), see Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, German Dictionary, Leipzig 1854–1961, Volume 13, edited by Matthias von Lexer, Leipzig 1889, Reprint Munich 1991
  3. ^ A b c Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills , published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV in collaboration with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, p. 69ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9

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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '44.2 "  N , 7 ° 9' 8.4"  E