Mill (Utphe)
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '21.3 " N , 8 ° 53' 57.6" E
The former mill on the northern edge of Utphe , district of Gießen , in the Wetterau is an island between Riedbach and Horloff and is one of the mills in the Horlofftal .
history
1256 acquired the knight Guntram III. von Oliffe and his wife Jutta von Cronberg, daughter of Otto I. von Cronberg, goods of the monastery "Bredenowe" in Utphe, a. a. a mill at the "Hurlyph." Because the knight was in debt, he had to sell his goods including a mill in "Odiffe" to the monastery of Haina on May 20, 1263 .
In 1325, the residents of the Berstad court in the Fuldische Mark received permission from the abbot Heinrich von Fulda to have them milled in the Hainaer mill near “Utife”. The Utpher Müller was also allowed to pick up the ground grain in Berstadt with his own vehicle. With this privilege , the Grund-Schwalheimer Mühle, also located in the Fuldischen Mark near Berstadt, was disadvantaged. This mill was transferred to the Deutschordensballei Hessen in 1323 , the Kommende Schiffenberg near Gießen .
Friedrich Magnus I (Solms-Laubach) awarded the mill in 1551 in hereditary series . Since then, the now Solms mill at Utphe has been inherited. The mill had a garden and also grazing with cattle like the other Utpher farmers.
In the following centuries, the following millers leased the mill.
- 1587: Gebhard Streb, who was also allowed to fish in the Mühlgraben .
- 1633: Johann Heckmann received the loan.
- 1640: Peter Eckel,
- 1666: Johann Christian Säemann from Ortenberg , since 1679 landlord in Inheiden ,
- Johann Heinrich Schmitt had been a miller since 1678. One son was a mill doctor, a carpenter who also built and repaired mills.
- 1820 Johannes Weid from Ober-Mockstadt .
Then around 1826 Conrad Schneider II came into the possession of the Utpher mill. He was the son of Riedmüller Conrad Schneider. By increasing the mill weir, he caused great damage to the miller of Neumühle near Trais-Horloff , he complained. The Schneider family also owned the Grund-Schwalheim farm and mill. The estate is still in their possession today.
Today the Utpher Mühle has been owned by the Krauss family for generations. From a request from 1857 we learn that Jakob Krauss also owned an oil mill , which was operated until 1894. Jakob Krauss was born on the mill near Selters in 1816. His descendant Erich Krauss was the last miller in Utphe, which was shut down in 1972.
"The mill was a grain, flour and grist mill and had three roller mills and a grist mill ." It took over contract work and ground purchased grist.
Today it is used to generate electricity.
natural reserve
The mill is not far from the Obere Knappensee , a remaining open pit . The area in the "Arn and Rohrwiesen" near Utphe was created as an ecological compensation . Since 2012, the European beaver has been considered native again in the Horloffsaue and Riedbach.
literature
- Udo Schwab, Wolfgang Wagner, Stephan Kannwischer, old mill locations in the Upper Wetterau. Volume I, Hungen 2005.
Individual evidence
- ^ Eckhart G. Franz , monastery archives. Haina Monastery. Regesta and certificates. Vol. 1, Vol. 2, 2 parts. = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 9, 5 and 9, 6, No. 394.
- ^ Arthur Franz Wilhelm Wyss , documents of the Deutschordens Ballei, vol. 2, no.47.
- ↑ Udo Schwab, The mills in the area of today's city of Hungen. In: Udo Schwab, Wolfgang Wagner, Stephan Kannwischer, Alte Mühlenstandorte in the Upper Wetterau. Volume I, Hungen 2005, p. 33 ff, here p. 37 f.
- ↑ Friedrich Battenberg , Solmser Urkunden 3, No. 3521 f., Solmser Urkunden 4, No. 3973 f.
- ↑ All information from Hanno Müller, family book Trais-Horloff, Inheiden, Utphe, Gießen district . = Writings of the Hessian Family History Association No. 23, 1997.
- ↑ Udo Schwab, Mühlen Hungen, pp. 47–51.
- ↑ Udo Schwab, Mühlen Hungen, p. 51.