Mohrenmühle

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Inner courtyard of the Mohrenmühle

The Mohrenmühle is a listed former mill property north of Gau-Heppenheim in the Alzey-Worms district , which was first mentioned in documents in 1486, but was probably built much earlier. The typical Franconian courtyard complex with mill building, house, stables, wine cellar, storage cellar and barn was probably laid out in the 16th century and expanded and renovated in the middle of the 19th century.

location

The Mohrenmühle is located about one kilometer north of Gau-Heppenheim am Weidasserbach (named after the Weidas monastery near Dautenheim, the mill had to deliver the tithe to this monastery) between Dautenheim and Framersheim . Since the land consolidation from 1954 to 1956, the stream in the area of ​​the Mohrenmühle has run in a straight line in a west-east direction. Originally the creek bed lay to the west and south below the mill. The water for the mill operation was diverted in the Mühlgraben west of the property, flowed north of the stream bed into the mill building and left the mill southwards back into the original stream bed. The historical course of the Mühlgraben can still be read from the trees.

history

A mill in Gau-Heppenheim becomes tangible for the first time with the "Mulenpfad" mentioned in a field description from 1412/13. In 1486 the “Moller Emerich” is named for the Mohrenmühle, in 1536 the mill name appears as “Mormühle” and in 1610 as “Moormühle”, while in a sketch map from 1672 it is referred to as “Reißen Mühl”. In 1907 Wilhelm Scholl II took over the mill as the last miller.

The mill had three grinding courses, in addition to the meal - and the oil mill there was a hemp grater , which was shut down before 1863. In 1925 the mill was stopped, the buildings were rented to a bed horse cleaning company (Kimmich & Hartmann) and the fields were leased. With the land consolidation from 1954 to 1956, the water rights were exchanged for an electricity connection. From 1948 to 1962 the farm was resumed by the owner family Heinrich Steingass, son-in-law of Wilhelm Scholl II. From 1980 the Mohrenmühle was used as a youth hostel by the Mainz diocese . The property has been used as an event location since 2002. The Mohrenmühle was designated as a monument zone by the Alzey-Worms district on November 6, 2006 .

description

The mill buildings are grouped on three sides around the courtyard, which is open to the northeast. On the northwest side are the residential building and the northern part of the mill wing, on the southwest side the southern part of the mill wing and the pigsty and on the southeast side the barn. To the northeast of the house there are two smaller outbuildings, one of which was used as a toilet building and the other was probably used as an oven. All buildings date after 1829, older masonry may have been preserved in the outer foundations on the northwest and southwest sides.

The originally five-axis two-storey house was extended by two axes in 1862/63 and redesigned, so new sandstone window frames were installed. The shutters, entrance door, floor tiles and terrazzo covering in parts of the ground floor have been preserved from this period . The staircase dates from the Biedermeier period , so it was not replaced during the renovation. The mill wing was renewed after the renovation of the house. The two-storey brick building is labeled "FL / 1863" and refers to the owner at the time, Franz Limbacher. Only small remains of the grinder have survived. The pigsty was built after 1839. On the ground floor made of sandstone slabs, two double doors lead into the barn with side feeding troughs for four animals, the upper floor served as a chicken coop.

The barn with cross-vaulted stable was probably built between 1839 and 1848. The quarry stone building is around 30 meters long and twelve meters wide, and the three-aisled vaulted stable is located in its southern part. The vault of the almost square stable is supported by four sandstone pillars, on its floor is old flat sandstone paving. Parts of the barn have a cellar.

The courtyard is partially paved with old limestone paving. In one corner of the courtyard is the Kollerstein der Hanfreibe, two millstones are set up on the access road, one marked "18 HR 50" for Heinrich Reith.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ordinance on the protection of the "Mohrenmühle monument zone" in the Gau-Heppenheim district, Alzey-Worms district. (PDF; 84 kB) District of Alzey-Worms, November 6, 2006, accessed on March 15, 2020 .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 44.6 ″  E