Mittelmühle (Schlaube)

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 59.5 ″  E

Use as a youth hostel, photo taken around 1955

The former Mittelmühle , also called Schernsdorfer Mühle , was located between the Ragower Mühle in the north and the Kupferhammer in the south, on the Schlaube in today's municipality of Siehdichum . This is crossed at the mill by the former Mühlenweg between Mixdorf in the west and Schernsdorf in the east.

history

Remnants of the foundation of the Mittelmühle

The mill was once the most important facility in Schernsdorf and was first mentioned around 1420, when the miller Hildebrandt was at the mill. The last Hildebrandt was the former tax collector and secretary of the Neuzelle monastery , August Hildebrandt , who acquired the mill in 1650 as mayor of Cottbus . The income that he was trying to achieve did not materialize, as the mill had already been doomed to standstill frequently in the previous years because the water level was insufficient to operate. The reason given was the excessive damming at the weir of Kupferhammer . Therefore Hildebrandt sold the mill to the master blacksmith from Kupferhammer, Samuel Meynert , who sat on the mill from 1658. A few years later, in 1674, Hans Schur (Schauer) bought the mill. It remained in the family ownership of the Schurs , son Samuel took over the mill in 1689, until his son-in-law Christoph Zeidler , who came from Ragower Mühle , acquired the Schernsdorfer Mühle, now a grinding and cutting mill , in 1714 . Hans Schu r took his old age at the Ragower mill, where he died on January 6, 1721. The Zeidlers owned the mill until after 1900. The then owner Ferdinand Zeidler senior became head master of the mill guild of the former Guben district in 1901 . He was not only a master of his field, but also a gifted organ player .

Grave slab of the miller of the Mittelmühle Ferdinand Zeidler and his wife

After the Zeidlers , the mill changed hands a few times, a Blankenfeld and a Sohr tried their hand at milling. The Frankfurt department store owner Emil Hirsch acquired the entire mill estate as a holiday home for his 300 employees before he was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938, now expropriated . His property was "Aryanized" as early as 1935.

Hans Weigelt bought the mill. As the owner of the Mittelmühle estate, he opened the ALA-Tonfilmbühne on October 1, 1935 , a cinema in Falkensee , which was sold in 1940. It is known that during the Second World War the mill, which was no longer in operation at that time, was used to quarter refugees . At the end of the war he was picked up by the Soviet occupying forces . The now expropriated mill was handed over to the communist Wilhelm Garn in the summer of 1945 , who resumed production. At that time, the mill was also generating electricity using a turbine . In 1946 he was arrested because of an alleged black slaughter , which he is said to have carried out as deputy mayor together with mayor Fuchs von Schernsdorf. At this point, all of the mill's buildings and facilities were intact. The manor house had 13 rooms, a large rural kitchen and outbuildings made of double-fired bricks . These still cover the ground up to the skewer.

This was followed by Josef Lutz Berger , the mill was in 1948 in the possession of the Peasants Mutual Aid Association (VdgB) over which the country under the land reform distributed. The mill itself, at that time the Schernsdorf grain mill , was operated as the Hanno Günther youth hostel from 1950 to 1965 after the mill was closed . For this purpose it was renovated, there was already central heating in the rooms at that time .

It was given up in 1966 not because of the dilapidation of the building, as is assumed today, but by a decision in the GDR regarding the location. Since the Academy of Sciences of the GDR was looking for new rooms for a guest house, it had to give up the building on the Great Horst on Wirchensee in 1967, and plans for this location were made. The mill was demolished in 1969, the last building, a barn , was demolished in 1979. From 1971 the State Forestry Company Frankfurt (Oder) , based in Müllrose, was responsible for the site. It is now in the nature reserve of the Schlaubetal Nature Park .

Today, hikers can only find remains of the foundations , remains of the mill dike and the supply channel near a wooden bridge over the Schlaube . The old ponds were destroyed by a dam break . Since 2006 the former Schlaube bridge of the Ragower Mühle is located as a transition over the Schlaube to the Mittelmühle.

Others

The mill is marked on the hiking trails.

literature

• Heinz Tölle: The mills in the Schlaubetal. Your story from the Middle Ages to the present. Digital printing and publishing, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3980554848 , p. 45/46

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Müller in Brandenburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Winfried Töpler : The Neuzelle monastery and its relationship to the secular and spiritual powers 1268-1817 (= studies on the history, art and culture of the Cistercians, volume 14). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3931836533 , p. 226
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: MON November 19, 2005
4. ↑ [ https://www.juedischesvirtuellesfrankfurt.de/de/de_L.php Jewish entrepreneurs of the interwar period - Hirsch department store]
5. ↑ History of film theater