Upper mill (Baiertal)
The Obere Mühle was a historic mill property in Baiertal , a district of Wiesloch in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The mill was founded in 1784 and destroyed in April 1945 in the last days of the Second World War.
history
After the lower mill in Baiertal had already existed northeast below the village from 1705 , the judge Georg Michael Vilsinger received permission to build a grinding and oil mill with hemp grater in the upper village in 1784. Like the older mill, the new upper mill was given by the local authorities as an inheritance.
Georg Michael Vilsinger was followed as Müller by his son Johann Jacob Vilsinger, then in 1808 by Johann Georg Hetterich and in 1813 by Christian Brenner. In 1819 Caspar Goos, miller of the lower mill, also acquired the upper mill and in 1822 passed it on to his son Ulrich Goos I, who later was mayor of Baiertal. He was followed in 1854 by his son Friedrich Goos, who led a lengthy legal dispute with the community about widening the stream bed. In 1869 the mill came into the possession of Jacob Horsch from Walldorf , who had to relocate the stream and the mill canal leading to the mill by a few meters because of the extension of the 155 road. Horsch sold the mill in 1878 to Karl Ludwig Rettenbacher, who had returned to America, and established himself as a flour trader in Wiesloch. Rettenbacher's widow sold the mill in 1891 to Bernhard Gefäller, who was the last miller in the upper mill. Gefäller had the mill expanded in 1910 so that it had three grinding aisles and two roller mills, but from 1928 had to contend with the loss of water from the Ochsenbach spring due to the elevated tank that had been built in the meantime and received compensation from the community in 1930.
The mill was destroyed on April 1, 1945 when the American troops were advancing on Baiertal. The house of the descendants of the last miller was later built on the formerly agriculturally used area of the mill property, and the wood store of a local carpentry business was built on the site of the former mill. In December 2013, a millstone with a memorial plaque in memory of the Obere Mühle was set up at the former location.
literature
- District Association Baiertal (Ed.): From buridal to Baiertal - a municipality leafing through its history , Wiesloch 1988, pp. 118–119.
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Wiesloch: Memorial stone Obere Mühle. (No longer available online.) December 15, 2013, archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 . 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.
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 25.7 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 21.1" E