Lohmühle (Wegberg)

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Wage Mill

Lohmühle in the Prussian premiere from 1846

Lohmühle in the Prussian premiere from 1846

Location and history
Lohmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Wage Mill
Coordinates 51 ° 8 '15 "  N , 6 ° 16' 13"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '15 "  N , 6 ° 16' 13"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
DEU District of Heinsberg COA.svg District of Heinsberg
DEU Wegberg COA.svg Wegberg
Waters Schwalm
Built around 1800
Shut down 1960 (mill operation)
technology
use Tan, bone meal, cooking oil and flour mill
Grinder 2 grinding courses 1 oil mill
drive Watermill
water wheel Wooden wheel, undershot

The Lohmühle was a water mill with an undershot water wheel in North Rhine-Westphalia.

geography

The current buildings of the Lohmühle are located in the street Zur Lohmühle in the district of Bissen in the middle town of Wegberg in the district of Heinsberg . In front of the mill were two small ponds . The location of the mill is 66 m above sea level. A fire in 1964 destroyed the building including the mill equipment. The building was rebuilt.

The Lohmühle is on the left side of the Schwalm . The Schwalm spring is at a distance of 5.3 km in Genhof , a district of the town of Erkelenz .

history

The Lohmühle was built in the French times around 1800 as a Stampfloh-Mühle. The products of this mill were tannery , bone meal , cooking oil and baking flour . However, there was an official requirement that the oil press and bone tamper were not allowed to be operated at the same time . Edible oil production was carried out until 1948, flour production ended in 1960. The mill was operated undershot and had two small mill ponds in front of it. The buildings burned down in 1964, including the mill equipment. The buildings were restored.

  • The mill building

  • The residential building

literature

  • Lower Rhine water mills - guide by Hans Vogt
  • The Schwalm - Valley of the Mills by Horst Jungblut - Helmut Elstner
  • Home book of the city of Wegberg - Compiled by Heinz Cohnen
  • Wegberg cultural guide

Web links

Commons : Lohmühle Wegberg-Bissen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/niederrhein-sued/kreis-heinsberg/nachrichten/die-fast-vergessenen-muehlen-1.691065