Obermühle (Görlitz)
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 Building ensemble of the Obermühle |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 8 '38 " N , 14 ° 59' 39" E | |
| Location | Goerlitz | |
| Waters | Lusatian Neisse | |
| Built | 1305 | |
| Shut down | 1994 | |
| Status | Mill operation ceased, use of the premises as a restaurant and guesthouse | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| drive | Watermill | |
| Website | www.obermuehle-goerlitz.de | |
The upper mill was one of the three large grain mills in the city of Görlitz on the Lusatian Neisse . The mill was stopped in 1994, but parts of the building are still used as a restaurant and guesthouse. Germany's most easterly brewery is located in the Obermühle .
location
The Obermühle is located at the northern exit of the Lusatian Neisse valley cut. Before the Neisse passes the Obermühle, it flows under the Neisse Viaduct in a wide west arch. The Obermühlberg rises northwest of the mill and merges into the elongated vineyard area to the south . The Oder-Neisse cycle path leads through the valley past the Obermühle.
history
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The mill was first mentioned in 1305 as the mill at Kunstinsdorf . Kunstinsdorf or Konsulsdorf was a settlement south of the city walls, which probably stretched from the Neisse over today's Bismarckstrasse and Moltkestrasse to Jakobstrasse. The southern border of the settlement was probably formed by the brook below the Jewish cemetery and the Kreuzkirche , which runs along the Pomological Garden to the meadows below the vineyard and flows into the Neisse. The Konsulplatz and Konsulstrasse remind of the former settlement to this day.
In the city books of the following years it was also called Kunstelmol or Kunstismol for short . Adam and Cristan von Grunow are named as the first owners around 1305. After numerous changes of ownership, the mill was completely renovated in 1562. In the area of the Obermühle there was also a fulling mill , a paper and a copper mill as well as the stamp mill of a scythe forge . The river water required to drive the mill was dammed southeast of the mill and passed between the western bank and an island on the Neisse. In 1804, the city council sold the previously leased mill to Karl Gottlob Thieme. On April 15, 1830, a fire completely destroyed the mill. Until then, the mill buildings were only semi-solid.
The massive reconstruction of the property in its current state took place in 1830. In 1873 the mill was bought by Alfred Schreiber, who soon took on his brothers Benno and Adolf as partners. In 1879 he sold his share to his brothers and moved to Penzig , where he had bought the Niedermühle. The Obermühle remained in the possession of Benno Schreiber's heirs until the end of the Second World War . The mill survived the war largely unscathed. It can be assumed, however, that it was also affected when the Neißeviadukt was blown up by Wehrmacht troops on the evening of May 7, 1945. As a result of the demarcation along the Lusatian Neisse after World War II, the mill was now on the border river to the People's Republic of Poland . In 1953, master miller Ernst Apelt leased the mill from the city. Ten years later it became his property. In 1972 he was expropriated and the mill became public property. It was only at the turn of 1990 that the upper mill returned to the property of the master miller. In 1992 his youngest daughter Susanne Daubner - a trained beer brewer - took over the mill. The Obermühle has not been grinding since 1994. The mill technology was sold.
today
Since 1999, for the first time since 1945, there has been a boat rental at the Obermühle, which is operated by the owner of the mill. In the same year the Oder-Neisse cycle path opened through the Neißetal, which leads past the mill. In 2001 a brewery and a restaurant opened in the mill's former social building. This brewery is the easternmost brewery in Germany, as it is a few meters further east than the Landskron brewery , which has long advertised with the slogan "The easternmost brewery in Germany". In the following years, the residential building and other buildings were set up for boarding guests and the restaurant was expanded with a terrace facing the Neisse with a view of the viaduct. Some bands use the extensive space in the former mill as a rehearsal room. The Neisse flood in August 2010 also devastated the premises of the restaurant and the adjacent buildings.
Since reopening after the flood, the mill has been hosting regular cultural events under the name Mühlenabend . The boat rental with a total of 14 boats has also reopened.
View of the Neisse and the Obermühle
Former social building - today a guest house and brewery
View into the Mühlengraben
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Jecht: History of the city of Görlitz. Volume 1, Half Volume 2: Topography . 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 575, 734 .
- ^ Richard Jecht: History of the city of Görlitz. Volume 1, Half Volume 2: Topography . 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 734 ff .
- ^ Ernst-Heinz Lemper: Görlitz - A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Verlag Gunter Oettel Görlitz - Zittau, 2009, ISBN 978-3-938583-16-6 , pp. 20 .
- ↑ obermuehle-goerlitz.de: history . Retrieved October 29, 2011 .