Michelbacher Mill
The Michelbacher Mühle (official company name: Fritz Hassel GmbH Michelbacher Mühle ) is a roller mill for the production of rye and wheat flour in the central western forest in Michelbach and serves as a grain mill. It is the only active mill location in the Altenkirchen district .
History of the mill
The initiative to build a mill with several functions came from the Butschbach von Altenkirchen family . The hydropower of the Wied was decisive for the choice of the location . The building permit applied for in 1846 related to a bone , oil and grinder mill . Although all three types of mill were approved, only the construction and operation of a grinding and bone mill was realized. Since the production of bone meal to increase the yield in agriculture was no longer profitable after a few decades due to the invention of artificial fertilizers , the operation of the bone mill was discontinued.
After several changes of ownership, the mill, including buildings, fields and meadows, came into the possession of the farmer and miller Fritz Hassel in November 1898. In addition to the operation of a grain mill , an additional pillar was created in 1902 with a sawmill . In 1914, the building stock included, in addition to the mill and sawmill building, a residential building, a factory apartment, a bakery , a carriage shed for transport vehicles and a stable. The drive of the grinding aisles, the saw frame and the circular saw was always provided by the water power of the Wied via four water wheels. In 1923 the mill was fundamentally redesigned; two turbines and a diesel engine provided the drive power for a grinding mill , two shot mills and four roller mills .
After Fritz Hassel's death in 1929, his three sons Robert, Gustav and Walter ran the two businesses as owners from 1930. On January 26, 1936, the sawmill in Michelbach was completely destroyed by fire. After the sawmill was relocated to Altenkirchen (former Lenz sawmill, Frankfurter Straße, on the Limburg – Altenkirchen railway line ) in January 1936, the two sons Fritz and Robert Hassel were responsible for running the mill. Today's silo and office buildings were built in 1947/48. From 1966 the Michelbacher Mühle was managed by Günther and Fritz Hassel, sons of Robert and Fritz Hassel. When the mill equipment was modernized in 1968, the use of water power was largely retained, although eight additional electric motors were added. After Fritz Hassel left the company in 1985, the mill was run by Eckhard Hassel, son of Günther Hassel. In 1987 the current hydropower plant was built; the water, diverted from the Wied through a 900 meter long mill ditch, drives the blades of a 100 HP cross- flow turbine , which transfers its power to a 75 kW generator and produces an annual average of around 200,000 kWh of energy. In 1993 there was another modernization and thus a complete rebuilding of the mill; 115 tons of wheat or 65 tons of rye can currently be milled in the mill system in 24-hour operation .
literature
- Daniel Schneider: The mill trade in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 59 (2016), pp. 219-237 (on the historical development of mills in the vicinity of Altenkirchen).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 22, 2014 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.
- ↑ The other mill locations in the Altenkirchen district, the Dauersberger Mühle in Elben , the Dickendorfer Mühle in Molzhain and the Schlossmühle Wissen-Schönstein are no longer used commercially.
- ↑ a b lucky too! - Contributions to the 15th anniversary of the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland Association of the German Society for Milling Science and Mill Maintenance (DGM)
- ↑ Holzindustrie Hassel - History
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 52.3 " N , 7 ° 40 ′ 20.9" E