Almond mill

Almond mill Market Pleinfeld Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	375 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	0  (1987)
Postal code :	91785
Area code :	09145
Mills in the Brombachtal
The mill property

Precipitation diagram for Mandlesmühle

Mandlesmühle is an uninhabited (as of 1987) district of the Pleinfeld market in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The wasteland lies at a height of around 375 meters above sea level.

The mill, which was abandoned by the damming of the Great Brombach , was bought by the Free State of Bavaria and is used by the Ansbach water management office as an information center "Seenland - Water for Franconia" . The mill was the only one in the Brombachtal that was not broken down. The place is the seat of the Seemeiststelle.

location

Mandlesmühle is located northwest of Pleinfeld, surrounded by forests below the dam of the Großer Brombachses. The place and the former mill area are located on the Mandlesweiher , a chain of ponds fed by the Brombach . A road connects the town with the district road WUG 18 . Not far was the Belzmühle , which was sold today . The area near the Mandlesmühle is protected as an important habitat as part of the Franconian sand axis .

The mill building (Mandlesmühle 9) erected in the 18th century was registered by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation under the number D-5-77-161-74 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments. An outbuilding of the mill and a small path chapel from the 18th century on the northern outskirts with the monument number D-5-77-161-75 are also listed. See also the list of architectural monuments in Mandlesmühle .

history

In 1846 there was a house, a family and nine souls in Mandlesmühle. In 1875 the eight residents of Mandlesmühle lived in four buildings; they owned a total of four horses and seven head of cattle. Before the municipal reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, Mandlesmühle was a district of Allmannsdorf .

The name Mandlesmühle comes from Middle High German = Mantelach = Föhrenwald

In 1315, Chunrad Hoholt received the inheritance from the bishop of Eichstätt at the mill called Mantlachsmul at that time . In 1339 Dytreich von Wildenstein (also from the Bishop of Eichstätt) received the Weyerstat below the " Mantlachsmül an der Promac " as a fief.

It is recorded that the owner of the mill delivered a carnival chicken to Eichstätt in 1407 .

In 1456 Heinrich Marsch took over the mill as a fief.

In 1572 the mill was called the old Mandlesmühl (as opposed to the Belzmühle or the new Almond Mill ).

The tithing of the Manttleßmill (name in the historical documents) was paid to the parish of Pleinfeld in 1601.

From 1737 the caste office Sandsee held the Fraisch over the Mandlesmühle.

In the community formation in 1824, the Mandlesmühle went into the political administrative area of the municipality Allmannsdorf over

In 1856 Johann Zurwesten was listed as the owner of the mill. Heinrich Christ acquired the mill in 1909, after which it was taken over by his son Georg Christ in 1950.

technology

In 1856, the technical inventory was recorded as follows: Saw and grinding mill with 3 grinding stages, the wheel of the saw mill ran undershot, the wheel of the grinding mill overshot.

Since around 1915, the company has had its own power generation using a dynamo. In 1934 a Francis shaft turbine was installed.

General

Property about 54 ha, of which 25 ha of arable land, 8 ha of forest, 12 ha of meadows, approx. 9 ha of water

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territory: May 25, 1987. Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 450), 1991, p. 352
2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
3. ^ Pleinfeld in the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
4. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1846, page 214
5. ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. [...] with an alphabetical general register of places containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875. Munich, 1877, column 1267
6. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census. Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 260), 1964, column 831
7. ↑ Excerpt from the book: On Mühlenstraße, with a pen through the Brombachtal