Marzahn post mill
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '39 " N , 13 ° 33' 49" E | |
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| Built | 1994 | |
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| Grinder | Windmill system | |
| Wing type | Venetian blinds | |
| Website | official homepage | |
The Marzahner post mill is a reconstruction of an already in 1815 in the center of the former village Marzahn put into operation windmill . It is the fourth mill building in the sequence and was inaugurated in 1994 at its new location, Hinter der Mühle 4 .
history
predecessor
The first settlers in Marzahn had to have their grain milled in Ahrensfelde after they had previously driven to Mühlendamm in Berlin. The colonists from Palatinate, who settled in the region in 1765, shied away from the path and demanded the construction of their own mill . This was denied to them by the Kurmark government for several decades. It was not until 1815 that Christian Friedrich Krüger built his first windmill , which was located in the center of the village. After a legal dispute, his son lost the building in a foreclosure auction in 1825 . Johann Gottfried Scholz took over the building and the colonist property. He gradually sold the land to farmers from Marzahn. In 1873 Johann Jacob Heinrich Groh replaced the first mill with a new one. After only two years he sold it to Carl Christian Müller. The operators changed several times over the decades. After the miller went bankrupt in 1899, Maximilian Georg Triller acquired a new piece of land and had a third windmill built on it. Soon this was used to generate electricity. The plant survived the two world wars unscathed. In 1978 the mill became the property of the GDR , which had it demolished in connection with the complete rebuilding of Marzahn. On June 9, 1982, the East Berlin magistrate decided to have a post windmill built again on the historic site. A mill active was founded with the aim of initially finding a suitable location. In addition, mills were looked for in the Uckermark , which should be dismantled and brought to Marzahn. However, resistance arose in the respective communities against the procedure. Abandoned buildings were partially placed under monument protection to prevent them from being transported away.
In October 1987 the Märkisches Museum Berlin bought the dilapidated post mill in Luckow, Brandenburg, in the Uckermark district for 18,000 marks from the GDR and wanted to rebuild it in Marzahn. The project fell behind with the turnaround . In 1992, the Berlin Senate, as the legal owner, could not pick it up due to resistance from the village population and it stayed in Luckow, where a village and mill association has been trying to maintain it since 1995.
1991 to 2005
It was only between November 1993 and May 1994 that today's facility was built as a replica of the first Marzahn windmill. It was officially inaugurated on May 12, 1994 with a mill festival. On June 5, 1995, the first international German Milling Day took place in this facility. In 1997 it was connected to the electricity network, so that the grinding plant could be operated independently of the wind. At the same time, the building received internal lighting. In 1998 a storm destroyed the wing cross, whereupon the grinding operation continued with only two wings. In 1999, on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Marzahn district, the mill received new wings. Other parts of the mill such as the doors or the side walls have since been renovated or renewed several times.
For the 700th anniversary of the village of Marzahn in 2000, the district office organized an exhibition on the history of the Marzahn mills. As already begun in 1908, the mill continues to be used for environmentally friendly power generation and so the third turbine was put into operation on September 3, 2000 . A new mill association has been founded to maintain and use the post mill.
The 90th anniversary of the wind power plants in Marzahn was the occasion for a renewed exhibition on mill landscapes in Berlin. The neighboring company Knorr-Bremse supplied a replica of a main shaft of the second wind power plant . The installation of an electric drive in 2005, initiated by the Mühlenverein, guarantees the use of the grinder when the wind is calm.
Since 2006
On July 6, 2006, a tornado again damaged a wing of the mill. With the help of donations of 49,000 euros, the damage was repaired and the mill has been working again since December 1st, 2006. In 2007 the Mill Association renewed the side surfaces and the bracing of the mill box. In 2008, the association built a mill hut on the site of the mill. Here children and young people can try out the function of a hand-operated grain mill and process the flour in an electric oven. In 2009 and 2010 the association redesigned the site and built wedding stairs with the support of the district office. It was inaugurated on June 25, 2010 with three weddings.
Technical specifications
The mill has a blade diameter of 20.5 meters and the weight of the mill is 45 tons. The grinding system consists of two aisles, a squeezer, two classifiers, elevators and suction filters. The mill operates 200 days a year with wind power. The usable drive power is between 8 and 12 kW .
Museum use and recognition for the miller
The Marzahn post mill is a producing museum. Registered groups will be demonstrated how flour is ground from grains. Further processing is also carried out by the miller, who sells his mill bread on site and in some Berlin organic shops.
The millers also organize weddings in cooperation with the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office . On July 11, 1997, the first mill wedding took place here. In 1997 the miller Jürgen Wolf received the German Mill Prize , which is awarded annually by the district of North Saxony, the Sparkasse Leipzig and the Leipziger Volkszeitung .
Web links
- official homepage
- Post mill Marzahn on Berlin.de in the web archive
- Marzahn post mill on Museenland.de
- Post mill Berlin-Marzahn on German Society for Milling Knowledge and Mill Preservation (DGM)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Chronicle of the mills in the web archive ; Retrieved May 30, 2011, retrieved January 8, 2019.
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: rbb media library: Brandenburg aktuell Luckow-Sonntag ) rbb television, July 18, 1993.
- ↑ Destination Uckermark: The post mill in Luckow
- ↑ Uckermark Region: Luckow post mill
- ↑ Mühlenverein Alt-Marzahn 63 (address)
- ↑ Pictures of the construction of the mill hut and its use in the web archive , accessed on May 30, 2011.
- ↑ Mill Prize 2018 , accessed on January 8, 2019.