Wage Mill
A tan mill is used to crush the vegetable tanning agents required for tannery . There are mainly pine and oak bark from Lohwäldern to Lohe ground. It contains a lot of tannic acid and is therefore suitable for tanning leather . The material was originally used to preserve fishing nets, ropes and sails. Lohe had been an important commodity that was subject to stacking law since the Middle Ages .
After the grist has been crushed, it is ground in the actual mill . Several principles are used here: either as a tamping mill (a stamping mill , also called Lohstampfe or Lohpocherich), or the coffee grinder principle ( bell mills ), disintegrators or horizontal millstones , the use of which was sometimes prohibited in some areas.
Tire mills were often found in the vicinity of earlier tanneries. Their locations often found their way into street or restaurant names, such as the street sections below the Pantaleon Church in Cologne city center : Rothgerberbach, Blaubach, Mühlenbach - there were a number of Lohmühlen that were supplied with grist from the Rheinauhafen and in turn supplied the tanners upstream.
Various Lohmühlen, which were built around 1750, were, for example, also on the Lohmühleninsel on the Landwehr Canal in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . In Lübeck you will find the Lohmühle , the home of the traditional soccer club VfB Lübeck . The Hohenlockstedter Lohmühlenteich is also named after a Lohmühle formerly located there.
