Lohmühle (Aurach)

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Wage Mill
Municipality of Büchenbach and City of Roth
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 5 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 328 m above sea level NN
Residents : 0
Postal code : 91154
Area code : 09171
Lohmühle seen from the railway line
Lohmühle seen from the railway line

The Lohmühle is a place in the Middle Franconian district of Roth , which belongs to both the municipality of Büchenbach and the city of Roth . He is not an official district.

location

The desert is about 1.2 kilometers northwest of the historic town center of Roth and two and a half kilometers southeast of Büchenbach in the Aurach valley . The almost 0.5  hectare area is, as a curiosity, half in the urban area of ​​Roth and half in the Büchenbach district. The Lohmühle is, like the entire course of the partly freely meandering Aurach, in the middle of the extensive water and landscape protection area LSG southern Central Franconian Basin West . (LSG-00427.01)

history

The area was already inhabited by people in the Bronze Age, as individual finds show. Only 200 m northwest of the Lohmühle was a 0.75 hectare Bronze Age settlement, which is protected as a ground monument. (D-5-6732-0003) This was, protected from the floods of the Aurach and Rednitz , on about 15 m elevated terrain ( 344  m above sea level ) in the Langenmoos forest . The paths along the Rednitz and Aurach rivers were important trade connections at that time, and there was a natural ford through the Aurach at the Lohmühle .

The settlement was abandoned in Roman times; It was only a day's march to the Limes and times were too restless. Boirian settlers did not advance into the area again from the southeast until around the year 650, but were pushed back again by the Franks coming from the west around 725 . In Carolingian times, the area belonged to the Sualafeldgau and the nearby, slowly flowing Rednitz was then considered navigable. The trade route and the ford regained their importance.

The Lohmühle was first mentioned in writing as "Loemül" in the early 15th century in connection with the payment of taxes to the diocese of Eichstätt . With the help of water power, oak bark was tamped, the juice of which the tanners needed for their work. The fortified ford is also documented for this site around 1603. At the latest in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , the Lohmühle initially collapsed and the regular spring floods erased its last traces.

It did not appear again until 1801 in the Rother homeland sheets . The Roth tanner Leonhard Reinhard had rebuilt it. In 1875 the Lohmühle was demolished and a bronze factory was built on its site, but it burned down again in 1887. The name stayed. In the early 1900s, Johann Harrasser from Nuremberg bought the property. Over the years the old house was extended and workshops were added. A mechanical workshop, wire drawing and nail production were operated with water power .

The first local bridge over the Aurach was also built in the second. World War destroyed. In the 1960s, nail production was stopped and the property was only used as a warehouse for the iron shop that Hans Harrasser opened in the city. The coat of arms of the Harrasser family, awarded by Maximilian of Bavaria in 1494, adorned the Lohmühle house for decades.

Until 1988 the mill served as the Harrasser family's apartment. Since then, the buildings have been left to decay. A photo from 1996 already shows a falling shed and the half-burned roof structure after an initial fire.

Renovation attempts at the beginning of the 2000s were thwarted by two more arson attacks in 2005, and in the following years the property only offered occasional shelter to homeless people. It was used as a practice area for members of the local graffiti scene and in 2015 there was another arson.

traffic

A municipal road, which was paved in the 1970s, connects the place with Büchenbach and Roth. The public transport does not serve the Lohmühle.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LSG south mid-fr. West basin
  2. ↑ LfD list Büchenbach , page 6 (pdf)
  3. ↑ a b History of Büchenbach, paragraph on the Lohmühle
  4. ↑ Lohmühle 1996
  5. ↑ Press report of the Roth Volunteer Fire Brigade 2005
  6. ↑ Press report 2015