Mohrenmühle (Rodebach)
Mohrenmühle
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Mohrenmühle in Gangelt |
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Coordinates | 50 ° 59 ′ 17 ″ N , 6 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ E | |
Location | Germany | |
Waters | Rodebach | |
Built | around 1559 | |
Shut down | 1965 cessation of milling operations | |
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use | Flour mill | |
Grinder | 2 grinding courses | |
drive | Watermill , 18 hp turbine from 1913 | |
water wheel | undershot |
The Mohrenmühle is a former watermill with an undershot water wheel located on the Rodebach in Gangelt , a rural community in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg .
geography
The Mohrenmühle is located on the right side of the stream, Zur Mohrenmühle 11 in the municipality of Gangelt. The area on which the courtyard and mill building stands is approx. 60 m above sea level . Above is the square mill , below is the Dahlmühle .
Waters
Up until the last century, the Rodebach supplied fourteen mills with water. The stream begins at a retention basin near Siepenbusch in the town of Übach-Palenberg at an altitude of 105 m above sea level. The Rodebach has a length of 28.9 km to its confluence with the Geleenbeek near Oud-Roosteren in the Netherlands . The mouth height is 29 m above sea level. The care and maintenance of the Rodebach and its tributaries is subject to the respective neighboring cities and communities. → See also Rodebach
history
The Mohrenmühle is mentioned for the first time in 1559 in the Gangelter church rent list and was already called "more moele" back then. But it is probably much older. The Mohrenmühle was a flour mill . It had two grinders , which from 1913 were driven by an 18 HP turbine . A small electric generator was also driven with the turbine . In 1965 the last Mohrenmüller shut down the turbine for good. Another reason was the relocation of the Rodebach when the river was straightened . Since then, several millstones , the power generator and a notice board on the house remind of a 500-year-old tradition .
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literature
- Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 243–245.
- State survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia topographic map 1:50 000 L 5102 Geilenkirchen and L 5000 Selfkant, ISBN 3-89439-417-X