Mittelndorfer mill
The Mittelndorfer Mühle is a historic mill in the Kirnitzsch Valley in the Saxon Switzerland National Park . The building complex has been used as a guest house since 1965.
location
The Mittelndorfer Mühle is located on the lower reaches of the Kirnitzsch at one of the places where the valley widens a little. It belongs to the city of Sebnitz . The place Mittelndorf , from which the name is derived, lies above the Kirnitzsch valley. The Mittelndorfer Mühle is a stop on the Kirnitzschtalbahn .
history
16th Century
The mill was first mentioned in a document in 1518. At that time it already existed, but there are no previous certificates. According to the information in the Hohnsteiner Amtserbbuch from 1547, the miller Matts Kott (also Kotte) worked here in 1548 and paid interest to the office for his grinding and board mill. In 1576 the grinding and sawmill was owned by Merten Brückner, a timber merchant in Schandau . Brückner bought the wood in various forest areas in the Upper Saxon Switzerland, had the trunks cut in his mill by a lease miller and then rafted as sawn timber on the Kirnitzsch to Schandau or transported there on wagons. From Schandau, the wood was finally transported down the Elbe on rafts and ships or connected to raft boards to the wooden yards of the towns on the Elbe. The Mittelndorfer Mühle had the advantage over all the other mills that existed in the Kirnitzschtal at that time that it was connected to Schandau by a drivable path. The Brückner family owned the mill until 1660 and had it managed by tenants.
17th century
Around the middle of the 17th century a Balzer Mitzscherlich was tenant. In 1659 he got into an argument with the bakers' guilds in Neustadt and with the Hohnstein office because he baked rolls in his mill and had them sold in the surrounding villages by his children and servants. In doing so, he violated the legal rights of the bakers' guild. At the same time, Mitzscherlich caused annoyance and excitement among the Brückner family and the authorities because he had started building a new sawmill on a meadow in the Kirnitzschtal that belonged to Ostrau and carried through his project (today's Ostrauer Mill). The competition that arose with the new mill probably prompted the Brückner family to sell their property to master miller Martin Hohlfeld. But this one too soon separated from the mill. In 1670 it was owned by several Schandau citizens. In 1698 the "escort and excis tax collector" Gottfried Conrad, also based in Schandau, was the owner.
18th century
After Gottfried Conrad's death in 1707, his daughter Maria Magdalene Keller took over the mill. During their time of ownership, a third was added to the two existing grinding courses. Otherwise, both the owners and the tenants apparently did little to maintain the mill. In 1730 the miller Christian Mitzscherlich complained that he was running “a very poor and poor mill” that had neither a draft and breeding cattle shed nor a pasture for the cattle. In 1753 the "heir, grinding and cutting miller" Johann Christian Hohtfeld wrote to the sovereign that his mill had become so dilapidated that he could no longer live in it safely. Because he intended to build a new mill, he asked the elector to give him the wood he needed for it, or at least to give it to him at a cheap price. He justified his request, which he repeated the following year, by pointing out the damage that the weir of his mill suffered every year from the raft operations on the Kirnitzsch. In 1764 the Mitteldorfer Mühle, now owned by the miller Benjamin Kunze, had two grinding aisles and a cutting aisle. Two bushels of meadow land now belonged to the mill . Grinding mills and board saws were driven by undershot water wheels. When Christian Gottlieb Kotte sold the property to Christian Gottlieb Rothe for 2450 thalers in 1799, a “mill pond” was mentioned as an accessory.
19th century
Since the mill was located on the classic hiking trail along the Kirnitzsch, which has been frequented by “Swiss travelers” since the end of the 18th century, it was chosen as a rest stop. As early as 1804 it was recommended as night quarters. In the 19th century, Johann Christoph Schwartze (1816), Johann Gottfried Rämisch (1835) and Friedrich Gustav Rämisch (1881) are mentioned as the owners of the mill. In 1835, Johann Gottfried Rämisch replaced the taxes in kind that had been on the mill since the Middle Ages in the form of grain and oats for a one-off payment of 4 thalers, 28 groschen and 8 pfennigs.
Under the miller Friedrich Gustav Rämisch, the old residential and farm buildings of the mill were demolished in 1867 and replaced by solid structures. He was also the last miller to run the mill in the traditional way. In 1882 Rämisch's successor Ferdinand Müller had a wood grinding shop and a plant for the production of cardboard built into the sawmill (the grinding mill had already been given up), which were driven by two turbines.
20th and 21st centuries
After a fire in 1901, the buildings were rebuilt and essentially got their current appearance. Production continued until 1959. The Mittelndorfer Mühle has been a guesthouse since 1965. It was extensively renovated between 2000 and 2004.
literature
- Alfred Meiche : A mill book - Of mills and millers in the work area of the mountain association for Saxon Switzerland. (= 5th yearbook of the mountain association for Saxon Switzerland .) Dresden 1927.
- Manfred Schober , René Misterek: The mills of Saxon Switzerland: Right Elbe area. 2009
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Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 46 " N , 14 ° 12 ′ 4.5" E