Mülhausen mill

Mülhausen mill
Former location of the Mülhausen mill
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 20 '37 "  N , 6 ° 21' 42"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '37 "  N , 6 ° 21' 42"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Viersen community Grefrath
Waters	Niers
Built	Documented mention in 1454
Shut down	1925 Sale and resignation
technology
use	Grain mill
Grinder	1 grind
drive	Watermill
water wheel	undershot

The Mülhausen mill was a water mill on the Niers in Grefrath with an undershot water wheel .

geography

The Mülhausener Mühle was located on the Niers near the grammar school in Hauptstrasse in the Mülhausen district in the North Rhine-Westphalian community of Grefrath in the Viersen district . The area on which the mill building stood is about 34 m above sea level.

The Niers supplied the Mülhausen mill with water for centuries. The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the water and soil association of the Middle Niers, which is based in Grefrath .

history

The mill belonged - probably in the 13th / 14th centuries. Century - the Abbey of Gladbach. 1454 it was together with the Oedter mill to the archbishop in leasehold given that made her as Regiebetrieb farming. During the secularization , the electoral mill went to Mulhouse, as it was also called, for 12,800 francs. to the farmer Johann Schmitz from Oedt . When the sisters from the order of “Our Dear Women” had to expand their girls' school , which was founded in 1887 on the neighboring site , they bought the mill property in 1925 and had the venerable mill closed.

gallery

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  Park where the mill once stood

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  Tranchot map 1806

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Verein Niederrhein eV, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 526-527.

Web links

Commons : Mülhausener Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Niers Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.mittlereniers.de/