Garbage Rose Mill

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Garbage rose lake with the mill

The Müllroser Mühle is an early watermill and still producing grain mill in the Brandenburg town of Müllrose on the Müllroser See. The local history is closely connected with the mill, which was first mentioned in 1275. It is the oldest, verifiable mill in the Schlaubetal .

history

From the beginning to the end of the 19th century

The mill was initially subordinate to the sovereign and paid its interest to him and the mayor. Under the von Hohendorff and von Burgsdorff ranks , the mill came into knightly possession and was leased. In 1647 the leaseholder Andreas Többicke from Lebus took over the mill and kept it in family ownership for over 100 years. The mill developed economically under the management of the Többicke family. In 1691 the owners built a cutting mill . In the process, the Többickes' corner barn at Müllroser Markt was demolished and a residential building was built next to the mill in its place. Today it is a pharmacy. When the mill came into the possession of the Gersdorff family in 1770 , it took off again. It was listed as a grinding and cutting mill. The Kaisermühle also belonged to the Többicke family. She had the right to brew beer , to distill brandy and to serve. Under the Schmidt family, who acquired the mill with Adolph Schmidt in 1839, the small water mill developed into a large industrial mill. In 1865 a steam mill with 20 HP was built on the site of the former cutting mill . In 1873 the mill received a full turbine with 15 HP, so that the water wheel was superfluous. In 1874 the boiler house was enlarged, the mill building and the storage facility expanded by two floors, and the grinding aisles from three to six. Slingshots with porcelain rollers were used and the steam engine had 70 hp, but the old one remained in operation.

At the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873 , the mill received a gold medal, and further awards at national and international level followed.

In 1885 the mill was separated into a rye and a wheat mill, which caused an international sensation because the new technology was used for the first time and even American experts came to Müllrose to study it.

In 1887 a 300 HP steam engine was installed. The machine introduced a technical revolution and was based on the invention of the Nagel and Kaemp company from Hamburg. The grain could be ground into finished flour in one pass. On this occasion, the directors of the American mills from Minneapolis met in Müllrose.

20th century

Garbage Rose Mill around 1900

After 1895, railroad tracks were laid as a siding to the mill. In 1920 the power plant already had 800 hp. The steam engines came from the Görlitzer Maschinenbauanstalt, modern steep-tube boilers with traveling grates from the Ratlinger machine works. During this time, the existing technology was modernized again. Around 1930 the mill had around 80 employees and was the most important employer in Müllrose.

During the Second World War , the mill served as an air raid shelter and continued production. The Kommerzienrat Max Schmidt and his son Gerhard ran the mill. After the invasion of the Soviet troops , the mill was under the supervision of the Russian Parche Menkow. After the war, Max Schmidt held this supervision until the mill was expropriated in 1953. He ran the mill together with his son, Adolf Schmidt, who had returned from captivity.

During the GDR era , constant modernization was also ensured. As VEB Müllroser Mühlenwerke, the mill was an annually recognized "company of excellent quality work" from 1963 to 1990. After the fall of the Wall , the company was privatized in 1992 and has been called Oderland Mühlenwerke Müllrose GmbH & Co. KG ever since . Today the mill is the largest still producing grain mill in eastern Brandenburg.

  • Former residential building of the Többickes

  • Grave of the former mill owner Schmidt

  • Brick facade of the mill

  • Factory premises with facade building

  • Building to the right of the driveway

literature

  • Hermann Trebbin : Müllrose - From the fate and struggles of a Brandenburg country town. Reprint of the edition from 1934. Ed .: Stadt Müllrose, Verlag Die Furt, Jacobsdorf 2003, ISBN 3-933416-45-0 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 46 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 59 ″  E