Nirmer mill

Nirmer mill
Mill building of the Nirmer Mühle
Location and history
Coordinates	50 ° 47 '13 "  N , 6 ° 9' 25"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '13 "  N , 6 ° 9' 25"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia City region Aachen City of Aachen
Waters	Haarbach
Built	1646
Shut down	after 1835
technology
use	Grinder and thimble grinder
Grinder	1 grind
drive	Watermill
water wheel	overshot

The Nirmer mill was an overshot watermill on the Haarbach in Aachen .

geography

The Nirmer Mühle was located on Haarbach , at Schuttenhofweg 232, in the Eilendorf -Nirm district in the Aachen city region. It was at a height of approx. 177 m above sea ​​level . The Harner Mühle stood above the Nirmer Mühle , below the Scheidmühle was located .

Waters

In earlier times the sources of the Haarbach were at a height of approx. 231 m above sea ​​level near the former Driescher Hof in the city of Aachen. Today the brook begins near Gut Neuenhof. The stream with an original length of almost 9 km is a tributary of the Wurm and flows northeast towards Eilendorf , crosses under the Aachen- Eschweiler railway line . The further path of the creek runs in a north-westerly direction, south past Verlautenheide and then into the center of Aachen- Haaren . In the city center of Haaren, the Haarbach is largely canalized. On the Tuchmacherweg, the Haarbach flows into the Wurm as an open stream at a height of about 144 m above sea level. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The Nirmer mill was mentioned on a map in 1646. The mill, which was also called the Vinken- und Fingerhutsmühle, was called a grinding mill in 1835 and was closed a short time later. The upstream mill pond was filled in in 1920. The remaining buildings were converted for residential purposes. During excavation work at the beginning of the 1960s, a millstone was found that today is reminiscent of earlier times.

gallery

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  Location of Nirm on the Tranchot map 1805/07

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  The first photo from 1846 shows the location of Nirm

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  The location of Nirm on the new record from 1892

Monument entry

Nirmer Mühle , Schuttenhofweg 232, built in 1572/1640, also called thimble or Vinkenmühle (due to the production of thimble-like metal sleeves for spinning mills); later flour mill; Mill building demolished in 1832, mill pond filled in in 1920

literature

• Erich Mertes • Daniel Heidenbluth • Peter Bertram: Mühlen der Eifel Volume II, Die Nordeifel, 2005, ISBN 3-938208-09-0 , p. 169
• The Haarbach, course and old mill locations

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

Commons : Nirmer Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Experience nature in the Haarbachtal (PDF file; 1.4 MB)
• Excursion to the Haarbach valley

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
3. ↑ http://www.wver.de/