Grinder and Oil Mill Trips

Grinder and Oil Mill Trips
Grinding and oil mill trips in Geilenkirchen
Location and history
Coordinates	50 ° 58 '23 "  N , 6 ° 7' 59"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '23 "  N , 6 ° 7' 59"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Heinsberg Geilenkirchen
Waters	worm
Built	1376
Shut down	around 1960
technology
use	Grain and oil mill
Grinder	1 grind 1 oil press
drive	water wheel
water wheel	undershot

The milling and oil mill Trips was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the Wurm in the city of Geilenkirchen in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The grinding and oil mill trips had its location on the worm, the Tripser Mühlenpfad, in the town of Geilenkirchen. The land on which the mill building stands today is approx. 70 m above sea ​​level . Above were the Beeretz mill and the Hünshovener oil mill , the Lohmühle was located in the neighborhood .

Waters

The worm supplied numerous mills with water over a river length of 53 km. The source of the worm is south of Aachen at 265 m above sea level. The confluence with the Rur is in the town of Kempen in the town of Heinsberg at 32 m above sea level. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, worm straightening was carried out. The curving, now and then meandering course of the river disappeared in favor of a simple route . The river length shortened and the flow speed increased. For many people the flood protection improved , for the mills it was the end. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of 355.518 km ² .

history

In a marriage speech in 1376 between the von Berghe and von Trips families , the bride received the parents' property as a dowry, including the mills , farmland , bush , Benden and much more. It was probably a grinding and oil mill that was also a forced mill . The Bann district extended only to the now defunct site trips and threw in a lease of only eight Malter rye from. Around 1900 the mill was demolished and the worm moved to the other side. In 1960 the mill stopped grinding.

gallery

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  Opposite Trips Castle was the mill

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  Today's worm tour

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  An old millstone at rest

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  Trips with castle and mill on the first recording from 1846

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  Tripser Mühle on the new recording from 1892

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  House trips with mill on the Tranchot card 1805/1807

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , p. 291.
• Hans-Josef Sprünken: Geilenkirchens Mühlen an der Wurm, home calendar of the Heinsberg district, 1992, pp. 35–42.

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

Commons : Mahl- und Ölmühle Trips  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the city of Geilenkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.wver.de/