Marxmühle (Katzenfurt)

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Marxmühle near Katzenfurt general view
Marxmühle - complete system
Houses from 1787 (left) and 1819 (right)

The Marxmühle is a former, water-powered multi-purpose mill. It is located northwest of the Katzenfurt district of the Ehringshausen community in the Lahn-Dill district and is a listed building .

history

The mill was first mentioned in 1657 as a cutting mill . It is not known when it was built. It was operated by an overshot mill wheel , to which water from the dill was fed by means of a mill ditch, and was owned by the Counts of Solms-Greifenstein and later Solms-Braunfels . The respective millers were leaseholders . Around 1660 a grinding mill was added to the cutting mill . Later, around 1697, a paper mill was added and in 1719 a hammer mill (oil mill) was added. The various branches of industry were partly operated side by side. Around 1744 there is still talk of a fulling mill that worked for the French Huguenots who had settled in the neighboring Daubhausen district in 1685 . Around 1850, Prince Ferdinand zu Solms-Braunfels transferred ownership of the entire mill property to the then leaseholder Johannes Leonard in return for a transfer fee. Leonard later sold it to Johann Müller, who then sold it to the brothers Ludwig (Louis) Marx and August Marx in 1883. The Marx brothers tore down the cutting mill and built a new grinding mill, which they operated from 1884 on. Milling was stopped in 1910 and the mill was converted into a compressed yeast and alcohol factory, which started operations on April 1, 1911 and existed until 1921. After 1921 another warehouse was built and from then on the water power of the mill pit was used to generate electricity. From October 1, 1925, August Marx began producing wood wool on the property . During the Second World War , welding work was carried out in parts of the mill building for Haas & Sohn in Sinn . After the war, a Samuel shoemaker ran a mechanical weaving mill here until the early 1950s . Today the mill property houses a farm.

Description and equipment

The buildings of the mill estate are grouped around a courtyard. During the long lease of the Dorlas family of mills (1756–1850), the oldest buildings still in existence today were built. There are two eaves- standing houses built next to each other on expanded cellars. The exposed half-timbering facing the dill side is dated: MD 1787 (MD = Martin Dorlas) and HCDI 1815 (HCD = Heinrich Christian Dorlas). The adjoining storage building was built in 1884. The partially plastered brick building is characterized by a regular arrangement of arched windows . The storage building is structurally connected to the neighboring storage building. In 1917 a warehouse was built and a year later a distillery building was built on the site. The structural completion of the complex is the residential building built in 1915 with a mansard roof . Behind the house are the facilities of the compressed yeast and alcohol factory with a preserved chimney.

literature

  • Maria Wenzel: Cultural monuments in Hessen . Lahn-Dill-Kreis II (Altkreis Wetzlar), In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3
  • Arno W. Fitzler: "Mühlen" in "650 Years of Hof Edingen 1341 - 1991" , Sinn 1991
  • Rudolf W. Kopp: Houses in Katzenfurt and their history , issue 7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rudolf W. Kopp: Houses in Katzenfurt and their history , In: Katzenfurter Hefte - Mitteilungsblatt des Geschichtsverein Katzenfurt, Katzenfurt 2012, Heft 7, S. 81f.
  2. ↑ a b Arno W. Fitzler: Mühlen In: 650 Years Hof Edingen 1341 - 1991 , Sinn 1991
  3. ^ A b Maria Wenzel: Cultural monuments in Hessen . Lahn-Dill-Kreis II (Altkreis Wetzlar), In: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , p. 266

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Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 17.9 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 4.5 ″  E