Mohrenmühle (Rodebach)

Mohrenmühle

Mohrenmühle in Gangelt

Location and history

Coordinates

50 ° 59 ′ 17 ″ N , 6 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 17 ″ N , 6 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ E

Location

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

District of Heinsberg

Gangelt

Waters

Rodebach

Built

around 1559

Shut down

1965 cessation of milling operations

technology

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 .

gallery

Farm buildings
former wheel house
Millstone as a decoration
Courtyard view
The last miller and his mill cart
Electric generator
Old shield of the trade association
Information board at the courtyard entrance
Tranchot card 1804/05

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

Web links

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