Lukasmühle (Guild House)
The Lukasmühle , originally called Westmühle, is located in Gildehaus , a district of Bad Bentheim in the Grafschaft Bentheim district at the western end of the Mühlenberg. It was built in 1720 as the first mill to be built entirely from sandstone in the Grafschaft Bentheim and was one of a total of three mills in the village.
history
In 1720 Count Hermann Friedrich zu Bentheim had two mills built on the Mühlenberg in Gildehaus, the Ostmühle and the Westmühle. While the Ostmühle was built of wood, Bentheim sandstone from local quarries was chosen for the Westmühle . It was the first mill in the County of Bentheim to be built entirely from sandstone and was built according to the plans of the Dutch architect Mattijs Groenland .
During a violent storm on December 15, 1791, it was badly damaged, and after extensive repair work, it later resumed operation. With several interruptions and after various renovations, it worked under many tenants until Easter Sunday 1945, when it was shot at in the last days of the war, caught fire and burned out down to the stump that is still preserved today.
After the end of the war, the mill was supposed to be demolished because the upper area was in danger of collapsing. Müller Lohuis had already removed the top two layers of the ashlar when the painter Friedrich Hartmann took over the building in 1948, removed a third layer of the ashlar, had a roof installed and set up a painting studio and an apartment for his family of five. He gave it the name Lukasmühle, which is now common today, whose hallmark was a larger-than-life painted Luke on the facade .
Earlier technique
The mill had two grinding courses with so-called seventeen stones. In 1905 it received a Körting electric motor that was used when the wind was calm, and about 10 years later a crude oil engine that bridged periods of calm or operational repair work (e.g. a broken wing in 1934). In 1941 two wooden wings were replaced by iron ones from the Netherlands, which promised greater resistance to breakage.
Friedrich Hartmann Museum
Friedrich Hartmann had stipulated in his will that the Lukasmühle in the form he left with his studio and a collection of paintings from his artistic work should be preserved as a museum for the public. In 2001 the Friedrich-Hartmann-Museum association was founded in Lukasmühle e. V. , who has since operated a museum in the Lukasmühle that shows more than 100 Hartmann's exhibits.
literature
- Heinrich Voort: Left a rich work in many places. On the death of the painter Friedrich Hartmann. Grafschafter Nachrichten of December 20, 2000.
- Rolf Krebs: In memoriam Friedrich Hartmann (1912-2000) . Bentheimer Jahrbuch 2002. ISBN 3-922428-61-4 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 41.8 " N , 7 ° 5 ′ 38.7" E