Bergerhausen Castle Mill
| Bergerhausen Castle Mill
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 51 '40 " N , 6 ° 39' 4" E | |
| Location | Kerpen district of Blatzheim | |
| Waters | Neffelbach | |
| Built | 18th century | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| Grinder | two grinding courses, one pearl barley course | |
| drive | overshot waterwheel | |
The mill of Burg Bergerhausen was a watermill near Bergerhausen, a suburb of the Blatzheim district of the city of Kerpen in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The grinding mill was fed by the water from the Neffelbach near Bergerhausen Castle .
In 1768 the mill burned down and was rebuilt. In 1808 a Johann Gürzenich was named as the tenant. The mill, then known as the Burgmühle, was leased by Ferdinand Gürzenich in 1837.
The mill had two grinding and one barley courses with an overshot water wheel . The mill was still in operation in 1950.
literature
- Susanne Sommer: Mills on the Lower Rhine. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1113-3 , p. 359.