Micktner windmill

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Micktner Windmill, 2016
Micktner windmill with extension, 2014

The Micktner windmill is a former tower Dutch windmill in the Dresden district Mickten . The building is a historical monument.

Location

The Micktner windmill is in the northwest of the Dresden city area at 110  m above sea level. NN in the Elbe valley . It is located 180 m north of the right bank of the Elbe near the beginning of the Kaditz flood channel . The property is located at Kötzschenbroder Strasse  9 in the area between the confluences of Böcklinstrasse and Sternstrasse.

The tower in the shape of a bricked truncated cone crowned by a conical roof , which is characteristic of this type of mill , was preserved, but not the wind turbine that was once attached to it . The original cubature can be seen from north, east and south; to the west of the building is a multi-storey extension, the height of which almost reaches the eaves of the mill.

history

The village of Mickten was subject to the mill compulsion of the ship mill in Neudorf, just under two kilometers up the Elbe, until the 19th century . Only after this old ban was abolished it was possible to build a mill in Mickten. This is how the Micktner Tower Dutchman came into being, which was first recorded in a city map from 1868. It was built 500 meters to the northeast and outside the town center on Alte Meißner Strasse, today's Kötzschenbroder Strasse.

Until about 1880 the mill remained the only building in this part of Micktens; only then did the first factories establish themselves on Kötzschenbroder Strasse. Before 1900 the wind gave way to an electric drive. Nevertheless, the mill was no longer competitive and the grinding operation was stopped. During this time, C. A. Tippmann incorporated the mill structurally and functionally into his bread factory. Since then it has been partially surrounded by other houses. According to the Dresden address book, Wilhelm Rämisch was the owner of what was then known as the “Saxonia mill and bread factory” in 1904.

Rämisch had various types of bread made there for sale to Dresden traders. Even after the Second World War , the company initially remained in family ownership. After Rämisch's death, he stopped production in the 1950s. The mill building was thus robbed of its original function. In May 1955, the engineer Eberhard Päßler acquired the site and set up the headquarters of his company there, which mainly manufactured household appliances.

Ground floor of the windmill

The decay of the buildings progressed through vacancies after the fall of the Wall . Today (status: 2018) the mill building is unused and is in poor structural condition. It is one of the cultural monuments in Mickten . The surrounding factory area is used by small businesses.

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Naumann: A historical walk between Alt-Mickten and Übigau. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-703-7 .

Web links

Commons : Micktner Windmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cultural monument tower Holländer-Windmühle (Kötzschenbroder Str. 9). In: Dresden themed city map. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Naumann: A historical walk between Alt-Mickten and Übigau. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-703-7 , p. 18 ( online ).
  3. ^ Windmill in Dresden-Mickten. ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: dresden-mühlen.de. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  4. ^ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs. Part II, Dresden 1904, p. 350 ( online ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 40 ″  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 22 ″  E