Nuns mill (Niers)

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Nun mill

The nun mill in Mönchengladbach-Uedding

The nun mill in Mönchengladbach-Uedding

Location and history
Nonnenmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Nun mill
Coordinates 51 ° 12 '44 "  N , 6 ° 29' 13"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '44 "  N , 6 ° 29' 13"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
Waters Niers
Built 1327 first mentioned in a document
Shut down 1975
technology
use Flour mill and oil mill
Grinder 1 grind , 1 oil press
drive Water wheel , turbine , electric motor , diesel  -  oil  -  drive
water wheel undershot

The nun mill was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the upper reaches of the Niers , in the Mönchengladbach district of Uedding in the administrative district of Düsseldorf .

geography

The Nonnenmühle is located on the left side of the Niers, at Myllendonker Straße 264–266 in the Mönchengladbach district of Uedding. Above was the Myllendonk Castle Mill , below the Broich Mill . The area on which the mill building stands is approx. 41 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Niers (GEWKZ 286) in its old river bed supplied numerous mills with water for centuries until the river was straightened . The Niers rises in Kuckum , a district of the city of Erkelenz . The Niers has a total length of 117.668 km and a total catchment area of ​​1,380.630 km 2 up to its confluence with the Meuse near Gennep (Netherlands) . The source is 73  m above sea level. NN , the mouth at 9  m above sea level. NN . The Niersverband is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The nun mill had its first documentary mention in 1327, when the nun Mechtildis von Helpenstein gave the Neuwerker monastery, among other things, the income of 1 month Wiese sita juxta Molendinum Novioperis . bequeathed. The mill was owned by the monastery, from which its original name Juffernmühle came. In 1510 the mill belonged to the abbey . Spanish soldiers burned the mill down around 1610. The mill was rebuilt as an undershot grinder . In the course of secularization , the mill came into private hands through auction in 1803 . The mill's inventory included the water mill on the Niers, consisting of the mill building , cellar , kitchen , three rooms on the ground floor , two rooms on the first floor and a granary , grain storage room , horse stables , cattle sheds , wagon sheds , warehouses and a poultry yard . In 1848 the mill was expanded into an oil mill . In 1923 the mill was still driven by a water wheel, in 1938 a turbine boosted the water power, and after the Niers regulation in 1940 an electric drive was installed. In addition, a diesel-crude oil machine was added as a booster. In 1975 the mill was stopped. The building, which was listed in 2002, has been converted into a residential complex and has been inhabited again since 2017.

gallery

  • Farm building of the nun mill

  • Niersbrücke at the Nonnenmühle

  • The Niers at the nun mill

  • Landscape protection on the Niers

  • The Nonnenmühle on the map new entry from 1912

  • The nun mill on the tranchot map 1803-1820

Monument entry

Nonnenmühle in Uedding Entry as a memorial on April 4, 2002:

The property is located east of Uedding at the confluence of Ueddinger Strasse and Myllendonker Strasse, not far from the Niers, which has been straightened here. The building complex of the Nonnenmühle presents itself as a restrained, but qualitatively convincing, regional architectural design language built with brick courtyards. Two-storey, on a multi-angled floor plan towards Myllendonker Straße, not completely closed three-sided courtyard under saddle roofs covered with anthracite-colored tiles. Gable-mounted, two-storey brick residential building with an eaves-facing, two-storey annex building to the north and a mill building facing south beyond the courtyard that is parallel to the street. This is followed by other former farm buildings, some of which surround the southern part of the courtyard in a U-shape. Rectangular window openings, such as the door and gate openings, are covered with a slight arch. The gable facing Myllendonker Straße, two-storey main house under a gable roof has access to the house from the courtyard. The entrance to the house has been redesigned with hard-fired clinker bricks in an expressionist manner. The ground floor is separated from the upper floor by a cornice on the courtyard side. On the gable side facing the street, the two right window openings on the ground floor were subsequently closed. Originally preserved double-sash window frames with one rung and split skylights characterize the facades. To the north, along Myllendonker Straße, there is a two-storey building with three window axes that is lower at eaves and ridge height. Originally preserved double sash window frame with one rung and split skylights. In the corner of the building between the main building and the above-mentioned auxiliary building, on the garden side on the ground floor facing the Niers, a small extension under a pointed roof is inserted as a secondary entrance. Here the window axes on the first and second floors are offset. Set back parallel from the street, on the other side of the rectangular courtyard area, there is another two-storey building under a gable roof with access to the house and arched gate, in which the technical systems of the nun's mill were originally located. In this component, the windows were modernized based on the original windows. To the south is a single-storey brick building with a narrower floor plan - with dog pens that are not listed. At right angles to this is a gable-independent farm building with a gable roof with two gate passages that allow passage from the courtyard onto the meadows adjoining to the south. At right angles to this, another farm building (possibly barn) under a gable roof starts directly on the street. The large property is bounded by a wall along Myllendonker Straße. It starts from the western Niersuferweg at the bridge of Myllendonker Straße over the Niers in the east of the property and runs along the street to the Nonnenmühle building complex, continues as a courtyard wall along the courtyard between the main house and the barn, to far beyond the last-mentioned farm building to the south along Myllendonker Straße to delimit the meadows. It consists of brickwork in the area of ​​the plinth, which is arranged between square pillars, and a bar lattice fence. The two gate systems made of bar grating elements (courtyard and south of the barn) are decorated with the initials "T" and "E" (Theodor Esser). As an important testimony to the Lower Rhine mill system, the building is worth protecting as a monument for local and historical reasons.

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide , 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 495-496.
  • Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills . 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pp. 65-67, 113-115.

Web links

Commons : Nonnenmühle (Niers)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lanuv.nrw.de
  4. ↑ http://www.Niersverband.de/