Upper Kapfenhardter mill
The Obere Kapfenhardter Mühle is a flour mill in the Calw district , southeast of the Unterreichenbach district of Kapfenhardt, in the Kapfenhardter Valley. It has existed since at least the 14th century.
history
For the year 1332 a foundation of Count Ulrich III. occupied by Württemberg . He paid annual interest to the St. Egidien Chapel in Neuenbürg from the income he earned from the Upper Kapfenhardter Mühle.
This mill was a ban mill for the farmers of Kapfenhardt, Grunbach, Salmbach and Engelsbrand, which meant that they were only allowed to have their grain milled here. In later times the area extended to Langenbrand.
While the grain mill still exists, only the building of an oil mill, which was also operated here for a time, is left and the other mill parts mentioned in a description of the authorities in 1860 - a hemp grater, a grinding mill and a saw mill - can no longer be traced today. The flour mill was modernized in 1984 and is in operation around the clock. Nowadays it is operated electrically, the energy is generated by hydropower. As a rule, the Obere Kapfenhardter Mühle takes part in the German Milling Day .
The Obere Kapfenhardter Mühle has been owned by the Mönch family for eleven generations or since 1693, who also accepted overnight guests at an early stage. The most famous guest was probably Ludwig Auerbach , who was supposedly inspired to write his Black Forest song by his stay in Kapfenhardter Mühlental in 1874. Until 1962, the building, which is now used as a shop, housed an inn, which then moved to a new building on the left edge of the valley. Today Mönchs Waldhotel is located here .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 20 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 19 ″ E